They don't make them like that anymore.
Goodbye to the 60s starlet Pamela Tiffin — "Pamela Tiffin, model, actress and 1960s movie ingénue, dies at 78" (WaPo).
Here's my old post where I wrote about her in the 60s beach pic "For Those Who Think Young."
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The changed the character’s name from Lee Archer in the books to Lee Harper to fit in with the slew of H movies Paul Newman starred in during the 60s (The Hustler, HUD, Hombre, and Harper).
Lew Archer to Lew Harper
Mirandize him, Danno.
Tiffin also played the daughter of the top Coca-Cola executive who Jimmy Cagney had to get married to her East German Communist boyfriend (Horst Buchholz) after he knocked her up in West Berlin in 1961's "One, Two, Three" (Billy Wilder's comedy also had the married Cagney cheating on Arlene Francis with his secretary, so fairly risque for '61, and Wilder got in the plot just under the wire, since it no longer worked after the Berlin Wall went up in '61).
J Lee, I was just going to write about the character Tiffin played in One, Two, Three. I haven’t seen it for years but I remember her glee that her her communist boyfriend didn’t wear underpants.
Whoa. Didnt she accidently drown in the pool right after that scene was shot?
I just finished a re-watch of the first season of True Detective with Woody Harrelson and Matt McConaughey. Matt seems to have borrowed a bit from Newman as Harper.
It's too bad they didn't dream up a scene in which she washed a car by hand and breast.
I used to love netflix now I hate it. I guess you can still get rare DVDs?
But it keeps the spouse entertained.
The only kind of wood that doesn't float
Notice Tiffin gives Newman "the brush" @0:50.
Demonstrating...
"The sensitivity of the male elbow -- to tit-flesh specifically -- is unbelievable."
After a few minutes of internet research: hubba hubba.
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Tiffin also played the daughter of the top Coca-Cola executive who Jimmy Cagney had to get married to her East German Communist boyfriend (Horst Buchholz) after he knocked her up in West Berlin in 1961's "One, Two, Three"
I loved that movie at the time. A bit dated now.
Which, don’t write that regarding any photo of Emmy Lou and Linda together on their Facebook pages.
I still have Netflix DVD subscription and will pick movies/TV shows based on actors/directors i watch and like in one thing. So just watched Rumaninian film Whistlers and plan to see other films by same director I had never heard of. Found a number of films with Tiffin same way. LA public library online catalogue also important for dvds, and convenient enough even in pandemic. Also use redbox for new stuff.
Pam died a natural death; so she's had that going for her. If she had taken up with Robert Wagner, who knows what might have happened to her?
What are the qualifications in becoming an "ingénue?" Is there a trade association with political clout?
Her wiki page has this, "Her second marriage was to Edmondo Danon, a philosopher."
Does being a "philosopher" pay well? Or is it based on how many lefty friends you have?
By luck or good sense never went boating with Wagner Davern and Walken...
Tiffin was past peak pulchritude in that clip. See, One, Two, Three mentioned above. The most similar 60s hottie was probably the young Cristina Ferrare.
I had no idea who she was...did a quick image search on the Google machine.
Holy lord, what a gorgeous woman.
Straddled the line between girl next door and bombshell...nice!
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"Besides appearing in The Godfather, it was also the house in which singer Rachel Marron, as portrayed by Whitney Houston, lived in the movie The Bodyguard (at least the exterior shots, the inside was shot somewhere else).
"Other movies it was used in are Harper (1966), The Jerk (1979), Fletch (1985), Into the Night (1985)."
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She looks capable of producing viable offspring.
Yowza.
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I could go for a spot of tiffin
She made the air get thin in more than one theater. Best of all, one of my contemporaries.
It's hard to believe that the youth icons of the 60s are pushing 80 now, but I suppose all of us get old.
Edmondo Danon seems to get more entries as an Italian producer's son, than as a philosopher. My guess is, if you teach philosophy, you are a philosopher.
Tiffin is an Indian English word for a type of meal. It refers to a light tea-time meal at about 3pm, or to a light breakfast consisting of typical tea-time foods.
My first guess was that a "tiffin" sounded like something from Harry Potter or some other fantasy novel. Actually, a "niffin" is something from Lev Grossman's fantasy novels or the television show they inspired.
The Ross Macdonald book on which this movie is based, Moving Target (first of the Lew Archer series) was originally called The Snatch.
In my survey of hardboiled crime fiction, I eventually got over my anti-Canadian biases and picked up some Macdonald Archer books. Good stuff. He's no Norbert Davis, but I can see the appeal of sexy Paul Newman and Pamela Tiffin in the mind's eye over chubby short guy Doan. and his Great Dane Carstairs.
Always imagined Doan as a Wallace Shawn type.
Maybe Costanza if you're playing it more for straight laughs.
There's an interesting anecdote by William Goldman about establishing Harper as a character by having him re-use yesterday's coffee grounds, grimace, then drink it down anyway. It put the audience on Harper's side and established that he's not a James Bond type -- he's only cool and collected on the job.
I like how the long static shots in this scene lend some ambiguity to what's actually going on. Ostensibly, the scene is about Harper meeting the pilot and asking some questions. In reality, it's about establishing the daughter as a femme fatale.
The word "tiffin" means a light lunch, of course. Something like half a sandwich.
Early sixties Pamela Tiffin: she had the right dynamics for the New Frontier.
The first time I saw Pamela Tiffin I knew nothing about women, but I knew what I liked.
She left an impression that lasts.
"Early sixties Pamela Tiffin: she had the right dynamics for the New Frontier."
She'd be great at a wingding : )
Beehive hairdo and all...
Sexy, poised, and confident. I love how she moves effortlessly from one situation to the next. Lovely lady.
What a great scene...Paul Newman and Robert Wagner included! How would that scene be styled today...I wonder?
I also, clicked the link to other post. Tiffin and Boyd...Two sides of what was going on with "girl style" in the mid 60's. Curled, styled and sprayed long hair beauty queen types or the British invasion school girl type with straight hair and bangs. Both styles gave way to the "Hippie Chick" of the late 60's and early 70's. I missed the beehive and went all in on Jane Asher straight hair via ironing using a real iron...lol
Tiffin is emblematic of the great mod 60s sexpots. The harbingers of the sexual revolution then unfolding. She was featured in Playboy a few years later. Wagner and Newman were occupying a world of cocksure men totally oblivious to the fact that a little round pill was about to bring 5,000 years of male domination to an end.
"...oblivious to the fact that a little round pill was about to bring 5,000 years of male domination to an end."
What? I thought men were still all-powerful and busy oppressing women as we speak!
I guess I never got the memo.
Great music btw. Almost as good as the fake rock n roll on Dragnet.
@Joe Smith-
That little round pill was invented by (mostly white) men, with a lot of development in Mexico by Mexican men.
The 19th amendment was passed by (mostly white) men.
More evidence for the concept that intelligence is a lethal mutation.
Gina Carano has a face like this. Classic. Old school. One of many reasons to watch The Mandalorian. Also, she could hold her own if RJ Wagner ever invited her to go boating.
wow, she was on 23, when she did that. The body looks 23, but the voice and manner seems much older. Reminds me of Patricia Neal who had the manner of a mature woman at 23. Anyway, I'm not a big fan of Harper, it always bored me. This scene is pretty good, but Newman needs a role he can sink his teeth into. He doesn't have the casual charisma of say, Brando or Heston. And a lot of the scenes in Harper are boring.
This one was pretty good though.
"And a lot of the scenes in Harper are boring. This one was pretty good though."
Gorgeous woman dancing in a bikini helps, I guess.
That's too much of a two-piece to be a bikini, IMO, but that's a quibble.
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She fits it well
Good thing Newman didn't ask her to make him a sandwich : )
Good thing Newman didn't ask her to make him a sandwich : )
I think she would. Then he would, in turn, repair her car, mow the lawn, paint the house, fix the toilet, take out the garbage... Girl chases boy chases girl.
We happened to catch "Harper" on TCM about a week ago (we've seen it several times). It's still a pretty good movie. Pam was pleasant to look at. She was about a year older than I am when she died -- too young; much too young.
The boys didn’t take the hint!
I saw this movie in the theater. I was 15. After that scene, I had trouble following the narrative because I was so, uh, distracted.
"For Those Who Think Young" is a pretty awful movie, worth seeing for that final, upside-down Bob Denver scene, and for the gorgeous Ms. Tiffin. I remembered her--just barely--as just another Bland Blonde from the Sixties, but when I saw her as a brunette I was bowled over.
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