Born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Yvette majored in picture and theatre arts at UCLA for three years. On a trip to New York in the mid-fifties she was cast as the White Rain Girl in commercials. She returned to the West Coast, working in various TV shows until she debuted in her first movie, Short Cut to Hell (1957), James Cagney's first directing effort. After doing a half dozen more movies through the end of the 50s, the blonde, blue-eyed actress appeared once in 1963 in Hud (1963), in W ...[Read Story]