Martha Hyer

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I snapped a few photos of the actress from a TV show episode she appeared in, featured below, an episode I dug up for another post. The only thing I basically knew about Martha Hyer was her name. At least when PoloMintGuy put up his sexy selection back in Post #44 from ten years ago (making us realize even more that he has been enriching Vintage Erotica Forum for a long time, for which he deserves at least one cookie), PMG added a note as to what made her memorable, to his mind:

Originally Posted by PoloMintGuy

Hi there!.. I always remember her for The Sons of Katie Elder (1965).



Later realized another version
of this photo (flipped, brighter
and cropped) was put up two
years later, as may be seen in
the second "Quote" box below.
PMG has two more shots in his
post.
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I saw The Sons of Katie Elder, too. I don't remember Martha Hyer from that film. 'Course, I barely recall anything else about that film.

Since I went through the thread, I was delighted to see it has some meat to it. (In contrast to other Hollywood heavyweights whose threads usually don't go beyond a few pages.)

I was also pleased to see one of VEF's genuine gents (Spargel) had put up a post way back in 2008. In the next post (#3), and in the following posts #4 and #5, I very much appreciated the commentary provided to help us get to know the woman better. (Unfortunately, Member "Blackv8" has been a no-show for the last decade. Also appreciated was the commentary from 2014's Post #50 by Member "Berigan.") I didn't know (as Post #5 spelled out) Martha was in First Men in the Moon, a film I have a soft spot for (not that I remember all that much about it).


With Robert Paige in Abbott and Costello
Go to Mars (1953); she was twenty-nine.

Still-active Member "Fallenangel" has put up relatively few posts since he hooked up fifteen years ago, but the promo photos he offered (from First Men in the Moon) were excellent:

Originally Posted by fallenangel

Surprised these aren't here. Sadly the outfit didn't appear in the movie.


There are two more stills from the angel's
Post #97 from 2020. His signature reads,
by the way, that he is not fond of women
with tattoos, meriting a hearty "Hear Hear."
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Relevant: Member "DTravel" made a great study of the actress' encounter with the moon in 2010's Posts #12 and 13, also offering a taste of Harryhausen's irresistible animation. Regarding Martha in sexy mode, I especially liked the following:

Originally Posted by Joszka

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First shot from "Ciné Revue" n°49, December 5th 63," Joszka's Post #60, 2015. Second came from Member "Sidaris,"
2016's Post #67; she looks wonderful in the Coppertone ad, circa 1965. Lovely as well in the third photo, from 2020's
Post #101, with thanks to Member "Cuzzyman927." (Ah! As I kept composing, I discovered the shot was from a 1962
episode of THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR.) Finally, the fourth photo is simply sensational. with Martha getting a rise
out of yet another lecherous leech. Banned! Member "Rodak" was behind this one, back in 2017's Post #78. I wanted
to know the source, but several image search engines failed to return a single match.
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Let's now move on to my original content. The following are from 1965's episode entitled, "Crimson Witness," from The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. The male stars playing rival brothers were Roger Carmel (whom I've always found a bit irritating, but later seeing him in more works has slowly led to greater respect) and Peter Lawford, where both played against type. (The ladies liked Carmel. whereas Lawford was a loser.)



There were three lovelies in all, with Joanne Moore as a secretary (the reason why I dug up the episode), Julie London as a mistress, and Martha Hyer was Lawford's wife, whom Carmel reportedly cuckolded. Martha was still playing glam girls, but by this time she was over forty.



(The lady had appeared in this program in a more prominent role three years earlier; this is when I learned the enticing swimsuit view from the last "Quote" box above came from this other episode, where Martha played Gig Young's wife, at odds with his own brother, played by Robert Redford. There is more with Martha's anatomy in the scene by the pool.)



1. BIKINI BEACH. ............................. 2. PICTURE MOMMY DEAD.

I see Martha began her screen career in her early twenties, and her heyday was in the 1950s. She worked her way up until she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Some Came Running (1958). The 1960s began to offer less prestigious roles, as with AIP's Bikini Beach (1964, with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello), the horror films Pyro... The Thing Without a Face (also from 1964) and Bert I. Gordon's Picture Mommy Dead (1966). (Although not everything was on a downswing; she also got a role in the hit film where she made the biggest impression with PoloMintGuy, The Sons of Katie Elder, 1965.)


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"What were they forced to do behind... locked doors..." They sure laid it on the line, boy. Artist looks like Frank Frazetta.
In the last photo... mud wrestling!

Who among us could resist a film about white slavers? Martha was Vincent Price's teammate in House of 1,000 Dolls (1967), as a nightclub magician and his beautiful mentalist partner hypnotize girls for their new lives as prostitutes. An IMDb reviewer claimed Price was involved to fulfill contractual obligations for AIP and later learned nude footage was shot for the European version.




Martha's last role was in a 1974 episode of McCloud, entitled "A Cowboy in Paradise." (As pictured below. She was fifty.)



Since she hitched herself with successful producer Hal Wallis in 1966, retirement may not have been a difficult decision. She lived a nice long life, dying at age ninety.




She was so beautiful, Martha Hyer kept pulling off the glammy roles, as in 1969's Crossplot, a fluffy James Bondish film with Roger Moore (seen in the first photo); she was the aunt of the film's leading lady (and would later be revealed as the villain), an Italian actress whom Ms. Hyer arguably overshadowed in the sex appeal department.


















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Cover frm German Frankfurter Illustrierte magazine 1960. (webfind)