{"id":3822,"date":"2016-07-27T00:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T00:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2016-07-27T00:29:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T00:29:06","slug":"happy-birthday-elvis-gals-celeste-yarnall-suzanna-leigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/27\/happy-birthday-elvis-gals-celeste-yarnall-suzanna-leigh\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELVIS GALS CELESTE YARNALL &#038; SUZANNA LEIGH!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ayarnall.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3823\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3823\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ayarnall-196x300.jpeg\" alt=\"ayarnall\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Hollywood<\/em>&#8216;s cover girl Celeste Yarnall, a former model and Miss Rheingold,\u00a0risked her life savings to travel to the Cannes Film Festival in 1967 in hopes of being \u201cdiscovered\u201d even though she had begun acting in 1963 on television and in films such as <em>The Nutty Professor<\/em> and <em>Around the World Under the Sea<\/em>. Discouraged that her career hadn\u2019t taken off, she headed to that international city hoping to wow some producers.\u00a0 And wow them she did! Producer Harry Alan Towers, who was looking for a girl to play a female Tarzan in <em>Eve<\/em>, spotted her strolling down the street. According to Yarnall, \u201cHe yelled and pointed, \u2018Stop that girl!\u00a0 That\u2019s my Eve!\u2019\u201d Celeste made a breathtaking jungle goddess in <em>Eve <\/em>opposite Christopher Lee and Robert Walker, now on BluRay.<em> S<\/em>he went on to act in such drive-in fare as <em>Live a Little,<\/em> <em>Love a Little<\/em> where Elvis Presley&#8217;s photographer sings the memorable &#8220;A Little Less Conversation&#8221; to her sophisticated model at a party; the Philippines-lensed horror movie\u00a0<em>Beast of Blood <\/em>with John Ashley, and her most notorious film <em>The Velvet Vampire <\/em>as a female bloodsucker lusting\u00a0for hippie couple\u00a0Michael Blodgett and Sherry Miles.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation (original 1968 version)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gvlxRvhCB_A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Birthday wishes are also extended to the British blonde beauty Suzanna Leigh most remembered as Elvis&#8217; leading lady in <em>Paradise, Hawaiian Style<\/em>; <em>The Deadly Bees<\/em>; and the spy movies <em>Deadlier Than the Male<\/em> and <em>Subterfuge<\/em>.<a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/aleigh.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3824\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3824\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/aleigh.jpg\" alt=\"aleigh\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/SMknIFeRpw0<\/p>\n<p>Read my interviews with Celeste Yarnall in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fantasy-Femmes-Sixties-Cinema-Lisanti-ebook\/dp\/B008DM2SI4\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469579267&amp;sr=8-5&amp;keywords=FANTASY+femmes#navbar\">Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Film-Fatales-Espionage-Television-1963-1973\/dp\/0786411945\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469579294&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=film+fatales\">Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-197<\/a>3<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Suzanna Leigh in\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Film-Fatales-Espionage-Television-1963-1973\/dp\/0786411945\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1469579294&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=film+fatales\">Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962-1973<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and my upcoming BearManor Media book <em><strong>Talking Sixties Drive-In Movies<\/strong><\/em> where co-star Irene Tsu dishes about making <em>Paradise, Hawaiian Style<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Hollywood&#8216;s cover girl Celeste Yarnall, a former model and Miss Rheingold,\u00a0risked her life savings to travel to the Cannes Film Festival in 1967 in hopes of being \u201cdiscovered\u201d even though she had begun acting in 1963 on television and in films such as The Nutty Professor and Around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3822","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\/3822","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=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}