Actress and model Mimi Weddell has died, aged 94.
Weddell died at her home in Manhattan on 24 September, her daughter Sarah Dillon has confirmed.
She became well-known for her flamboyant headwear, which was prominently featured in a 2008 documentary about her life, entitled Hats Off.
Her acting credits include small roles in 1980s films including Dracula’s Last Rites, horror spoof Student Bodies, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Heartburn, and more recently, 2005's Hitch. She also enjoyed a cameo role in hit U.S. TV series Sex and the City.
As a fashion model, Weddell appeared advertisements for Louis Vuitton, Nike, Burberry and Juicy Couture. She also appeared in photo spreads for American Vogue and Vanity Fair.
Still charismatic at age 90, she was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful New Yorkers by New York magazine in 2005.
Weddell died at her home in Manhattan on 24 September, her daughter Sarah Dillon has confirmed.
She became well-known for her flamboyant headwear, which was prominently featured in a 2008 documentary about her life, entitled Hats Off.
Her acting credits include small roles in 1980s films including Dracula’s Last Rites, horror spoof Student Bodies, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Heartburn, and more recently, 2005's Hitch. She also enjoyed a cameo role in hit U.S. TV series Sex and the City.
As a fashion model, Weddell appeared advertisements for Louis Vuitton, Nike, Burberry and Juicy Couture. She also appeared in photo spreads for American Vogue and Vanity Fair.
Still charismatic at age 90, she was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful New Yorkers by New York magazine in 2005.
- 10/6/2009
- WENN
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You might not know it, but you've probably already been exposed to Mimi Weddell, the subject of Jyll Johnstone's entertaining if slight documentary "Hats Off".
The 93-year-old actress is fairly ubiquitous, both in print ads (for the likes of Luis Vuitton, Burberry and many others) and film and television, with credits including "Sex and the City", "Law & Order," "Hitch", "Across the Universe" and "The Purple Rose of Cairo". If you're a horror fan, you'll probably recognize her as the murderous alter kocker from "Student Bodies".
The film's title stems from one of Weddell's numerous eccentricities, namely her habit of wearing one of her 300 hats every time she walks out the door. As seen here, the senior performer is a memorably idiosyncratic figure who is in remarkable physical condition. Living by her motivational credo of "rise above it," she's still more than capable of performing rigorous gymnastics and declares at one point, "If people walk slowly in front of me these days, I want to kick them!"
Weddell became a full-time actress at the age of 65, after her husband died suddenly and left her financially bereft. This cinematic portrait vividly depicts the daily grind of being a working actor, following her as she subjects herself to an exhausting routine of cattle call-style auditions.
Although it's highly effective at conveying the amusing aspects of its subject's quirky personality, "Hats Off" is less than meaningful in terms of terms of getting under her skin. Despite the inclusion of interviews with Weddell's bemused adult children, who clearly have more than a few issues with their mother, the film fails to provide the psychological perspective necessary to lift it above the level of kitsch.
You might not know it, but you've probably already been exposed to Mimi Weddell, the subject of Jyll Johnstone's entertaining if slight documentary "Hats Off".
The 93-year-old actress is fairly ubiquitous, both in print ads (for the likes of Luis Vuitton, Burberry and many others) and film and television, with credits including "Sex and the City", "Law & Order," "Hitch", "Across the Universe" and "The Purple Rose of Cairo". If you're a horror fan, you'll probably recognize her as the murderous alter kocker from "Student Bodies".
The film's title stems from one of Weddell's numerous eccentricities, namely her habit of wearing one of her 300 hats every time she walks out the door. As seen here, the senior performer is a memorably idiosyncratic figure who is in remarkable physical condition. Living by her motivational credo of "rise above it," she's still more than capable of performing rigorous gymnastics and declares at one point, "If people walk slowly in front of me these days, I want to kick them!"
Weddell became a full-time actress at the age of 65, after her husband died suddenly and left her financially bereft. This cinematic portrait vividly depicts the daily grind of being a working actor, following her as she subjects herself to an exhausting routine of cattle call-style auditions.
Although it's highly effective at conveying the amusing aspects of its subject's quirky personality, "Hats Off" is less than meaningful in terms of terms of getting under her skin. Despite the inclusion of interviews with Weddell's bemused adult children, who clearly have more than a few issues with their mother, the film fails to provide the psychological perspective necessary to lift it above the level of kitsch.
The subjects of two Telluride Film Festival documentaries, actors Norman Lloyd (left) and Mimi Weddell (right), each 92 years young, pose for photo at the festival this weekend. Lloyd is the subject of Matthew Sussman's "Who Is Norman Lloyd?" which looks at his career ranging from vaudeville to working with Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles & Alfred Hitchcock, to work on television. Weddell, subject of Jyll Johnstone's "Hats Off," is a...
- 9/3/2007
- AMC News: Film Festivals
- Tucked away in the fresh air mountains of Telluride, Colorado is the 4 day film festival of gnarly indie, foreign film titles. Commencing today, this year appears to be a slim pickings in terms of anything fresh and not showing at either Toronto or Venice. Instead this year's bunch pulls from the quality titles at this past Cannes edition. Many were saying that Paul thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood would preem there - and there is always a chance especially with a Daniel Day Lewis tribute occurring. Known as the festival of blind faith (cuz you don,t know what film you'll be necessarily seeing, don't be shocked if they pull out some surprises. Here are some of the title listing for this year's edition: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 DaysThe Band's VisitA Thousand Years of Good PrayersThe CounterfeitersPersepolisWhen Did You Last See Your Father?
- 8/31/2007
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