RIP Pamela Tiffin

 

Pamela Tiffin died, she appeared alongside Tognazzi and Mastroianni in sixties comedies

She was 78 years old. Former model, she achieved popularity thanks to Italy where she starred in Dino Risi's 'Straziami ma di baci saziami', and Luciano Salce's 'Oggi, tomorrow, postomomani'

The American actress Pamela Tiffin, very popular in Italy in the 1960s thanks to the comedies of Risi and Salce, died in New York. The news was given by her husband, the Italian philosopher and professor Edmondo Danon, son of the film producer Marcello Danon, and her daughters, Echo Angelica, who partly followed in her mother's footsteps, and Aurora. Former model, she achieved popularity thanks to Italy where she starred in Dino Risi's Straziami ma di kisses satiated , and Luciano Salce's Today, Tomorrow, After Tomorrow alongside Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcello Mastroianni.

Born in Oklahoma City, October 13, 1942, she was 78 years old, raised in Chicago in a family of architects, she first chose a career as a model, working in New York and quickly becoming one of the most requested cover girls: famous is her cover by Vogue. She was then noticed by a producer who launched her in the cinema. Following its US debut, Peter Glenville's Summer and Smoke, based on a play by Tennessee Williams, and Billy Wilder's satirical comedy One, Two, Three! continued his career alongside actors of the caliber of Paul Newman (Detective's Story) and Burt Lancaster (The Hallelujah Trail).

The crisis with her first husband (the editor of New York Magazine Clay Felker) brought her to Italy where she achieved popularity thanks to the sixties comedies, such as Straziami ma di baci saziami (1968) by Dino Risi alongside Nino Manfredi and Ugo Tognazzi and with Marcello Mastroianni in one of the episodes of the film Today, Tomorrow, After Tomorrow (1965), directed by Luciano Salce. After the marriage with the Italian professor, the gradual departure from the scene and the move to New York.

TIFFIN, Pamela (Pamela Tiffin Wonso)

Born: 10/13/1942, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Died: 12/4/2020, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

 

Pamela Tiffin’s westerns – actress:

The Halleluja Trail – 1965 (Louise Gearhart)

Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears – 1972 (Susie)