I continue with my fascination with the wonderful Yvette Vickers! This is a newspaper article that I found from December 20, 1959.

Broadway Role Lured Yvette Out of Trees

By Robert Wahls

THE SUBJECT for discussion after Wednesday’s matinee was Yvette Vickers. Miss Vickers plays Laverne, who gets to dance with Melvyn Douglas in “The Gang’s All Here” at the Ambassador. It’s a political satire.

“Where Mr. Douglas plays President Griffith P. Hastings or Warren G. Harding I wouldn’t really know, says Yvette, who was not a history major. “You see, we only meet in a smoke-filled room.”

Lured from Tree House

Miss Vickers abandoned a treehouse in Benedict Canyon, hard by Beverly Hills, to come to Manhattan for a legitimate dramatic role. She seems quite at home on our island.

“Miss Vickers,” I quoth, “what’s all the about your posing for Playboy Magazine in the altogether last July?”

“I don’t drink much,” quoth Miss Vickers, “but I will have a bourbon on the rocks.” (All this at the spindletop.)

“You see, I was poorly advised by my press agent,” She said after a pause. “Also, I was not in the altogether. I was covered all the way down.”

A Cagney Discovery

“I have come to Broadway, that to the authors, My Friends Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. To establish myself legitimately.

Miss Vickers, a blonde who is 5 foot 3 with a 32-21-35 silhouette as the movie camera descends, is just 24. She has done movies and TV. As a matter of fact, James Cagney discovered her and gave her a break in “Man of a Thousand Faces.”

Mr. Cagney us a wonderful man,” she says

Yvette also appeared in “Short Cut to Hell” for paramount, not to mention a series of still photos for Globe Syndicate in which she entertained fellow starlets at a barbecue in her treehouse.

“It isn’t really a treehouse,” Yvette admits. “It is just surrounded, really, by scrub oak and pine and the trees seem to embrace it.”

She’s From Missouri

Born in Kansas City, Mo., Yvette was taken as a child to Los Angeles. Her mother and dad were a vocal and piano team in supper clubs.

“We lived in the mountains north of Malibu,” she says. “And now my parents have built a desert house at El Mirage.”

Yvette is no mirage. She looks like a young Shirley Temple Black who is seeking some kind of stability. She first wanted to become an actress when she played Sir Hames Barrie’s “Deat Brutus in high School.

The Young Rebels

“That’s the play about all the might-have-beens,” she says. That’s why I try so hard to BE.”

In trying to “be,” Yvette has been through the blue jean phase, which she gave up as too immature. She now reads Thomas Wolf and Dylan Thomas.

“We were just rebels,” she admits. “All young people should be rebels.”

At this point, Yvette said she had to go.

“I must sign my annulment papers,” she remarked sadly. “He has been a gentleman and let me got the annulment.”

At 24, Yvette has a brand new future—and a past.

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