According to the L.A. Times, actress Phyliss Kirk, best-known to genre fans for her role in 1953’s original 3-D Vincent Price chiller HOUSE OF WAX (in which she starred as a young woman who attracts the unwanted attentions of Price’s disfigured sculptor/madman) succumbed to a post-cerebral aneurysm Saturday, October 21 at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
Kirk, who was 79, began her career as a fashion model before taking a series of stage roles on Broadway. Contracts at MGM and then Warner Bros. followed in the 1950s, with the prolific actress appearing in over 50 productions, including THE TWILGHT ZONE episode “A World of His Own,” written by Richard Matheson and co-starring Keenan Wynn.
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