Thursday, December 18, 2008

Beat Girl

Gillian Hills, a yé-yé girl and actress, was born in England where she was a sensation in Beat Girl, about a rebellious girl who goes out to nightclubs where rock music plays and the guys all pout and glare.

Quickly typed as “the British Bardot,” Gillian surprised her critics by singing very well in French and having more hits in France than in England. She turned up alongside Jane Birkin in Antonioni's Blow Up, but her film appearances decreased and she became quite elusive after the 70’s, when she moved to New York to work as an illustrator for books and magazines and later married Stewart Young, manager for The Scorpions!

(bio from last.fm/wikipedia)










































2 comments:

SIRLORDTHOMAS said...

I LOVE HER IN THAT SCENE FROM BLOW UP!!!!!!!!

Jay Schiavone said...

I've always heard she was born in Cairo. Excellent assortment of photos. Your blog is almost flawless!