Actress Pamela Tiffin has died aged 78.
The Golden Globe nominee died of natural causes on Wednesday in a New York hospital, as confirmed by her daughter Echo.
Tiffin had success as a teen model, but broke into acting by chance after she visited the Paramount Pictures lot while on holiday in Hollywood.
Hal Wallis, who was producing a film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke, spotted the 19-year-old and asked her to audition on the spot.
After extending her holiday, Tiffin screen-tested for the role of Nellie and was cast in the movie in 1961.
Tiffin was then cast as the daughter of James Cagney’s boss in the comedy One, Two, Three, with director Billy Wilder calling her ‘the biggest find since Audrey Hepburn’.
The actress earned Golden Globe nominations for both of her first films.
After this, Tiffin was cast in the musical State Fair opposite Pat Boone and Bobby Darin and as one of the three leads in Come Fly With Me.
While studying at Columbia, Tiffin continued to act, starring in two films with James Darren – For Those Who Think Young and The Lively Set – and opposite Burt Lancaster in The Hallelujah Trail.
In 1967, she moved to Italy where she starred in many movies, including Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses, The Almost Perfect Crime and The Archangel.
In her theatre career, Tiffin acted in Dinner at Eight and Uncle Vanya.
Tiffin was married twice; she tied the knot with magazine editor and New York Magazine co-founder Clay Felker in 1962, but they divorced seven years later.
She married Edmondo Danon – the son of La Cage aux Folles producer Marcello Danon – in 1974, and decided to quit acting.
Tiffin is survived by husband Danon and their two daughters, Echo and Aurora.
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