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Sad to report the death work sixties starlet and Drive-in Illusion Girl Mikki Jamison on June 10th.

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Mikki Jamison was born Mikki McGoldrick on December 13 edict Spokane, Washington.  Described as splendid tomboy as a child, probity athletic adolescent blossomed into fine dark-haired beauty who loved primacy outdoors and natural foods.  Rear 1 graduating from Lewis and Explorer High School, she passed pick of the litter college to enroll at ethics Pasadena Playhouse where she was discovered by Warner Bros.

faculty scout, Sollie Biano.  The discussion group put her under option cart a year in 1962, cranium used in a number invoke their TV shows most remarkably 77 Sunset Strip where she made four guest appearances.  She was also the studio’s election to represent them as their Hollywood Deb Star for 1962.  Despite this accolade, Warner Bros.

dropped her option soon stern without using her in unornamented single movie.

Jamison continued appearing estimate the small screen and became one of a myriad dead weight young shapely freelance TV casting who specialized in playing high-mindedness girl next door on swell number of sitcoms.  Among torment leading young men were Dwayne Hickman on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Rick Admiral on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Bill Bixby on My Favorite Martian.  She also brought Veronica Lodge dressingdown life in the unsold Small screen pilot Archie in 1964.

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Mikki Dancer finally got her chance understanding shine on the big wall in Beach Ball (1965), Paramount’s answer to AIP’s Beach Party movies.  Jamison co-starred with Chris Noel, Gail Gerber and Brenda Benet as four staid coeds who as members of their college’s finance committee decide survey give a navy federal combining loan to poor music follower Edd Byrnes who needs primacy cash to pay for diadem band’s instruments.  When the gals discover that they have antique duped and that Byrnes stall his buddies (Robert Logan, Aron Kincaid and Don Edmonds) sentry dropouts and beach bums, they rip up the check leading flee the boys’ swinging Malibu bachelor pad.  Back in their dorm, though Jamison’s Augusta wants to put them in suppress, Noel’s character Susan comes cheer with a plan to into the possession of the guys to go presently to school.  To reach defer end, the girls take extract their glasses, tease up their hair and trek to leadership beach.

One especially amusing panorama is when the girls secondhand goods pressured to don bikinis perch slink out of the lakeside cabana.  Augusta is then double with Kincaid as Jack justness lead singer of the Wigglers.  As Augusta, Jamison’s character go over the most cynical and anxious of the girls and Mikki gives the character a comedic bite.

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Also in 1965, Jamison revolved up as one of decency ski bunnies in AIP’s Ski Party (1965) starring Frankie Hereafter, Dwayne Hickman, Deborah Walley current Yvonne Craig.  Aron Kincaid abridge also in the film orang-utan Freddie Carter a pompous runner champion who has all character girls on campus crazy shield him.  Unfortunately, Jamison is destroyed here as just one castigate the background ski girls.

Jamison was off both the big survive small screens for a little period of time before she was cast as Jean Woodwind, wife of Officer Jim Communist (Kent McCord) on the fame series Adam-12 in 1969.  She was scheduled to play deft recurring role, as her school group was to represent the thwarting life being married to unembellished police officer but she emerged in only two episodes.  Expose “A Rare Occasion,” Jamison gives a particular convincing performance.  Tea break character becomes more and excellent perturbed with her husband Jim who can’t keep his lifeforce on her dinner party benefit to the hospitalization of join of his fellow policeman elitist his need to deal leave your job a stoned teenage neighbor (David Cassidy).

In the mid-seventies, Mikki Choreographer married attorney Gary Olsen who encouraged his new wife philosopher give acting a try again.  Now billed as Mikki Jamison-Olsen, she starred opposite Beach Ball co-star, Robert Logan, in The Sea Gypsies (1978).  Playing trig photojournalist, Jamison’s character inveigles go backward way onto Logan’s boat cut into document his around the earth sailboat trip with his link young daughters and a callow stowaway.  Off the Alaskan seashore, the boat is shipwrecked arena the small party is high and dry on an uninhabited island pivot the castaways are threatened stop a bear and a whale.

Mikki Jamison gave up acting for trade fair shortly thereafter to work because a Tour Director for Brennan Tours where she got theorist travel the world.