Yvette Ruby Mimieux

An L.A. native who passed in January, at 80, Mimieux was discovered in the late 1950s while horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills. She went on to appear in dozens of television shows and films, including “Where the Boys Are” (1960) and “Light in the Piazza” (1962). In 1964 she earned a Golden Globe nomination when she became what’s believed to be the first woman to bare her belly button on American TV when she guest-starred on “Dr. Kildare.” After her 1986 marriage to Howard Ruby, wealthy co-founder of Oakwood Worldwide, a provider of furnished short-term rentals, the fiercely private Mimieux, a globe-trotting collector of art and antiques, appeared on screen just twice more, in a 1990 “Perry Mason” TV movie and, her final role, in 1992, as a “thinly disguised” Ivana Trump in the high-camp Jackie Collins miniseries “Lady Boss.”