HOLLIWOOD ACTRESS YVETTE VICKERS PREFERED LONELY SECRET DEATH BORN 1928 AUGUST 26
HOLLIWOOD ACTRESS YVETTE VICKERS PREFERED LONELY SECRET DEATH BORN 1928 AUGUST 26 Early life and career[edit] Vickers was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of jazz musician Charles Vedder. During her youth she traveled with her parents to their various performances. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied Journalism.[2] While at UCLA, she took a class in acting and discovered that she enjoyed it, so she changed her major to drama. She began making television commercials. She later moved to New York City to model for White Rain shampoo advertisements, but she eventually returned to California to pursue an acting career.[4] Her first movie appearance is listed under the name "Yvette Vedder" in Sunset Boulevard (1950), although she was not listed in the production credits. She made her first movie appearance under the Vickers name in Short Cut to Hell (1957), which was directed by James Cagney. In the same year, she...