{"id":3797,"date":"2016-07-09T15:28:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2016-07-09T15:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T15:28:50","slug":"happy-birthday-edy-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/09\/happy-birthday-edy-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDY WILLIAMS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/aedy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3798\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3798\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/aedy-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"aedy\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The outrageous Edy Williams arguably had the most determination and drive of most sixties glamour girls to become another Raquel Welch. Standing 5-foot-7 with dark brown hair and brown-green eyes she had a curvaceous body measuring 39-26-37, breathy voice, and captivating personality that men drool over. Loving the camera, Edy posed bikini-clad for numerous cheesecake and pin-up photos. She turned every public appearance into a media event and undeniably became a popular sex goddess of the decade leading up to her most notorious role as porn star Ashley St. Ives in <em>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls<\/em> (1970).<\/p>\n<p>Edy began her acting career with bit roles in a few movies including <em>For Love or Money<\/em> (1963) before getting noticed playing call girls in <em>A House Is Not a Home<\/em> (1964) and more memorably in Sam Fuller\u2019s film noir <em>The Naked Kiss<\/em> (1964). As with her contemporaries, she landed minor decorative roles on TV including episodes of <em>Burke\u2019s Law<\/em>, <em>The Beverly Hillbillies<\/em>, and <em>The Man from U.N.C.L.E<\/em>. The ravishing beauty then signed a contract with 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century-Fox, ala Raquel Welch, but wherein Raquel landed big movie roles Edy continued to toil on television. Edy was voted a Hollywood Deb Star for 1965 but still was only landing bit parts on the big screen in <em>Nevada Smith<\/em> (1965), <em>Red Line 7000<\/em> (1965), and <em>Paradise, Hawaiian Style<\/em> (1966). She finally got noticed and was simply delectable in <em>The Pad (and How to Use It)<\/em> (1966) playing one of playboy James Farentino\u2019s girlfriends but went right back to bit parts in the awful Sonny and Cher musical <em>Good Times<\/em> (1967). It was at this point where Williams went blonde and had one of her best roles in <em>The Secret Life of an American Wife<\/em> (1968) as the \u201cdumb but well-stacked\u201d suburban neighbor of Anne Jackson who imagines Edy as this sexy siren who can seduce any man. After playing one of sailor Gardner McKay\u2019s shapely shipmates in <em>I Sailed to Tahiti with an All-Girl Crew<\/em> (1969) and a Vegas showgirl who is sent by casino owner David Janssen to seduce his son Robert Drivas who he suspects of being gay in <em>Where\u2019s It At? <\/em>(1969), Williams scored big with\u00a0droll over-the-top performance in\u00a0<em>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls<\/em> (1970) directed by Russ Meyer. She hit it off so well with her director that they wed shortly after and she co-starred in his next movie the underrated <em>The Seven Minutes<\/em> (1971) starring Wayne Maunder. You can read my homage to Edy in <em>Beyond<\/em>, with comments from actors who knew and worked with her, in my upcoming book from BearManor Media entitled <em><strong>Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/g7-7SOW152M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outrageous Edy Williams arguably had the most determination and drive of most sixties glamour girls to become another Raquel Welch. Standing 5-foot-7 with dark brown hair and brown-green eyes she had a curvaceous body measuring 39-26-37, breathy voice, and captivating personality that men drool over. Loving the camera, Edy posed bikini-clad for numerous cheesecake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","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\/3797","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=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}