PAMELA Tiffin was a Hollywood silver screen actress and a Playboy model.
Pamela, who recently passed away, was heralded as one of "the most beautiful and talented actresses of her time."
Who was Pamela Tiffin?
Pamela Tiffin was a Playboy pinup and Hollywood starlet.
She was born in Oklahoma City in October 1942, and raised in a suburb of Chicago where she first began her modeling career in Illinois.
The former teen model began her colorful acting career when she was spotted by a Paramount studios producer in California while on vacation in Los Angeles.
She moved with her mother to New York to pursue her career and appeared several times on the cover of Vogue as well as commercials.
How did she die?
Tiffin's daughter reportedly confirmed today that the sixties silver screen icon passed away in a New York hospital on December 2.
Her daughter Echo – who followed in her mother's footsteps to become and actress and director – told the The Hollywood Reporter that her mom died of natural causes aged 78.
What films did she star in?
It was while on vacation in California that she was spotted by Paramount exec Hal Wallis.
He asked her to audition on the spot, and then hired her for the 1961 movie adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke starring alongside Geraldine Page and Laurence Harvey.
Her debut earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe, and she went on to star in a series of hits including the 1962 musical "State Fair," "Come Fly With Me" (1963) and "Pleasure Seekers" (1964).
Still only 19, she next played the socialite daughter of a Coca-Cola executive in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, starring James Cagney.
Most read in Celebrity
Both films earned her nominations for best newcomer at the Golden Globes.
Tiffin went on to star alongside some of Hollywood's biggest names such as Rock Hudson, Robert Wagner and Burt Lancaster.
The later films of her career were in Italian cinema before she quit acting in 1974 when she married her second husband Edmondo Danon.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEZqqupl6YvK57xKernqqklravucSnq2hpaWd9c3yRaKeapZWhrm7AyJ%2BdoqZdpbmixcGosGaln5myrXnHqKOlsaekvKV5wJyrq52jqHw%3D