{"id":3683,"date":"2016-10-13T23:41:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2016-10-13T23:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:41:43","slug":"its-time-for-tiffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/13\/its-time-for-tiffin\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Pamela Tiffin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Cover-Tiffin.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3651\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Cover-Tiffin.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Tiffin\" width=\"350\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who wouldn&#8217;t want to unwrap a gift this holiday season to find lovely 1960s actress Pamela Tiffin inside?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cult pop icon awed moviegoers with her beauty in her film debut in <em>Summer and Smoke<\/em> (1961) and then wowed them with her hilarious performance as a Southern fried belle\u00a0in Billy Wilder&#8217;s frenetic satire <em>One, Two, Three<\/em> (1961). She then became &#8220;the favorite airhead of the sixties&#8221; and the darling of teenage drive-in movies with <em>State Fair<\/em> (1962), <em>Come Fly with Me<\/em> (1963), <em>For Those Who Think Young<\/em> (1964), <em>The Lively Set<\/em> (1964), and <em>The Pleasure Seekers<\/em> (1965). She finally shook off the ingenue image to vamp Paul Newman in the gritty detective mystery <em>Harper<\/em> (1966) and then took it one step further dying her hair blonde to play a not-so-dumb blonde sexpot opposite Marcello Mastroianni in the Italian 3-part comedy <em>Oggi, domani, dopodomani<\/em> (19966). She remained blonde and ran off to Italy to escape an unhappy marriage cementing her cult status in America since most of her films did not reach these shores. She did return for one film the very funny comedy <em>Viva Max<\/em> (1969) with Peter Ustinov and her two movies with Franco Nero the giallo <em>The Fifth Cord<\/em> (1971) and the spaghetti western <em>Deaf Smith &amp; Johnny Ears<\/em> (1973) are highlights from her time in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this\u00a0review of my book from David Tucker on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidctucker.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/book-review-perils-of-pamela.html\">Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Who wouldn&#8217;t want to unwrap a gift this holiday season to find lovely 1960s actress Pamela Tiffin inside? The cult pop icon awed moviegoers with her beauty in her film debut in Summer and Smoke (1961) and then wowed them with her hilarious performance as a Southern fried belle\u00a0in Billy Wilder&#8217;s frenetic satire One, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}