1965, Designs: cars, furniture, electronics, clothes III

Plymouth XP-VIP concept
- Designed and built by Chrysler under the direction of Elwood Engel, USA, 1965
- Presented at the 1965 Chicago Auto Show

Plymouth XP-VIP concept

Plymouth XP-VIP concept

Plymouth XP-VIP concept

Plymouth XP-VIP concept

Alfa Romeo 2600 SZ (Sprint-Zagato)
- Designed by Ercole Spada at Zagato, Rho, Lombardy, Italy, 1963-1965
- Based on the Alfa Romeo 2600 (Tipo 106) with the 2,584 cc engine (123 kW, 215 km/h)
- Only 105 cars produced
- Presented at the 1965 Frankfurt Motor Show

Alfa Romeo 2600 SZ

Alfa Romeo 2600 SZ

Alfa Romeo 2600 SZ

Eclisse lamp
- Designed by Vico Magistretti, Italy, 1965
- Manufactured by Artemide, Pregnana Milanese, Italy

Eclisse lamp

Eclisse lamp

Futuro house
- Designed by Matti Suuronen, Finland, 1965
- Manufactered by Oy Polykem Ab, Helsinki, Finland
- Prefab house composed of fiberglass-reinforced polyester plastic, polyester-polyurethane, and poly(methyl methacrylate), measuring 4 metres (13 feet) high and 8 metres (26 feet) in diameter
- Fewer than 100 were made and it is estimated that today around 60 of the original Futuro Houses survive

Futuro house

Futuro house

Futuro house

Thunderbird Sofa
- Manufactured by Flexsteel Industries Inc., Dubuque, Iowa, USA, 1965
- Presented at the 1965 International Home Furnishings Market in Chicago

Thunderbird Sofa

Thunderbird Sofa

1965 Celebrity adverts

Diana Dors: Borg Warner

Diane Cilento: Towle

Donna Reed: International Harvester

Donna Reed: Singer

Elke Sommer: Lux Soap

Eva Gabor: Masterpiece Tobacco

Eva Gabor: Masterpiece Tobacco

Jean Shrimpton: Simpson

Jean Shrimpton: Yardley

Marilyn Maxwell, Jill St. John, Rhonda Fleming and Bob Hope: RCA

Julie Newmar: Simplicity

Shirley Jones: American Tourister Luggage

Veronica Hamel: Pond's

1966, Deaths: Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift died on 23 July, 1966, of a heart ailment in his house at 217 East 61st Street. He was found dead in bed in his New York apartment, he was 45. The cause of death was listed as a heart attack, but a major contributing factor was the cumulative effect of pain killers and liquor.

He was born in Omaha on February 17, 1921, and appeared in public for the first time at the age of 13 in an amateur stage production of "As Husbands Go". During the 1950's Montgomery Clift was one of Hollywood's finest actors, but his life went downhill after he was seriously injured in a car accident in 1956. He made 18 movies and was nominated for an Oscar four times, but never took a statue home. The movies were: "The Search" (1948), "A Place in the Sun" (1951), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), and  "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961).

Elizabeth Taylor & Montgomery Clift in "A Place in the Sun" (1951)

He often played outsiders like the social climber in "A Place in the Sun", the anguished Catholic priest in "I Confess", the doomed soldier Prewitt in "From Here to Eternity", and the Jewish GI in "The Young Lions".

Montgomery Clift & Donna Reed in "From Here to Eternity" (1953)

Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe & Clark Gable in "The Misfits' (1961)