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Sue Lyon, Lolita, 1960.
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Carol Lynley, The Last Sunset, 1961. Like Lauren Bacall, Universal’s teenage cutie took exception to the Western’s incest angle – upsetting her Tammy image.
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Tippi Hedren, The Birds, 1962. Hollywood’s Dee and Suzanne Pleshette and England’s Jill Ireland were in the frame for the poor, bird-pecked Melanie until Alfred Hitchcock fell for Hedren in a diet drink commercial. Dee was a too-young-looking 20, while Tippi was called 28 when she was really 33. Hitch gave her a seven-year contract. She made his next film, Marnie, 1963. And that was the end of his “new Grace Kelly.”
- Hayley Mills, The Chalk Garden, 1964. Joanne Woodward’s pregnancy switched the Dee-Woodward vehicle to Mills-Deborah Kerr.
- Susannah York, Kaleidoscope, 1966. To qualify for British Eady Plan budget money, the cast had to be restricted to one American – and that was Warren Beatty.
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