Lisa Montell, a starlet in the 1950s and 1960s who starred with Dean Martin and Rod Taylor in movies like Ten Thousand Bedrooms and World Without End, has passed away. She was 89 years old.
In her acting career, Polish-born Montell has played a range of ethnicities. She portrayed Hawaiians in the Roger Corman films Naked Paradise (1957) and She Gods of Shark Reef (1958), both of which were shot in Kauai.
The Gene Autry Show, Broken Arrow, Tales of Wells Fargo, Colt.45, Have Gun, Will Travel, Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, Bat Masterson, and Maverick are just a few TV Westerns where she made an appearance.
Montell portrayed a lady on Earth in the 26th century, hundreds of years after a horrific atomic war, who falls in love with an unintentionally time-traveling astronaut (Taylor) in the science fiction film World Without End (1956), which was written and directed by Edward Bernds.
Lisa Montell Death: How did Lisa Montell die?
According to her daughter Shireen Janti, Montell passed away on March 7 from cardiac issues and infection at the Southern California Hospital in Van Nuys.