Trivia

She was also a degreed anthropologist, and a very successful businessperson, particularly in real estate.

Yvette and her husband owned a resort in Mexico. Many celebrities vacationed there. Mr. Ruby is world famous for his National Geographic photographs, especially of polar bears.

Yvette was born in Los Angeles, California, USA, the daughter of María del Carmen (Montemayor González) and Rene Albert Mimieux.

On the March 10, 2022 (A Suitcase Full of Cash and a Yellow Clown Car (2022)) broadcast of Young Sheldon (2017), executive producer Chuck Lorre's trademark end of show "vanity cards," paid tribute:

"Yvette Mimieux In Memoriam The Year was 1960. I was eight years old. I went to see a movie called The Time Machine (1960) and fell hopelessly in love. From the minute Yvette appeared on screen, I was smitten. She played an Eloi, a member of a beautiful, frustratingly passive race of people in the far, far future. The Eloi were the sole food source for the horrible, troll-like Morlocks. Needless to say, this was a very stressful matinee for me. I didn't want the woman of my dreams to be eaten. Thankfully, she was rescued and I didn't have to cope with cinematic tragedy until I saw Steve McQueen die in The Sand Pebbles (1966) (I'm still upset over that). So I would like to pay tribute to my first crush. Yvette Mimieux. My second crush came a few years later. Raquel Welch, trying not to be eaten while running around in a fur bikini".

Her father was born in London, England, to a French father, from Nievre, Bourgogne, and an ethnic German mother, from Saint Paness Padding. Yvette's mother was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Appeared on the cover of TV Guide (November 11-17, 1967) which stated that she lives on a mountaintop overlooking Beverly Hills with a 200-pound leopard, a Great Dane, a Yorkshire terrier, Maltese cat, white rabbit, a Spanish maid and a hippie brother who turned down a scholarship to Cal Tech.

1959 Deb Star.

Actress/supermodel/singer Yvette Rachelle was named after her.

Although Yvette Mimieux had no biological children of her own, the actress was a stepmother six times over. Her second husband, Stanley Donen, had three sons: Joshua and Peter Donen (by Marion Marshall), and Mark Donen (by Adele, Countess Beatty). Third husband/widower Howard Ruby had three children, as well: sons Steven and Michael Ruby, and daughter Donna Ruby.

Body cremated and ashes scattered off the coast of Los Angeles County.

Was a registered Republican.