Kathleen Hughes, who was recognized for her position because the shocked blonde within the 1953 3D sci-fi basic “It Got here From Outer Area,” died Monday. She was 96.

Her good friend John Jigen Griffin-Atil reported her loss of life.

The niece of playwright F. Hugh Herbert, she was born Elizabeth Margaret von Gerkan in Los Angeles. After signing with Fox in 1948, the studio modified her title and he or she and started performing in small roles together with “Mom Is a Freshman” and “Mr. Belvedere Goes to Faculty.”

After leaving Fox, she was forged by Paul Henreid in “For Males Solely,” the place she caught the attention of writer-producer Don McGuire, who helped her get a contract at Common-Worldwide. Her subsequent position, in director Jack Arnold’s “It Got here From Outer Area,” would show to be her most enduring, because of a publicity nonetheless that appeared on every part from birthday playing cards to promoting campaigns.

In 2019, Hughes spoke to Fox Information in regards to the iconic photograph. “The one the place I’ve my fingers up within the air and I’m screaming? I had simply completed engaged on that movie. I went to the nonetheless gallery and as I walked in, the cameraman who was taking stills mentioned to me, ‘Put your fingers up within the air and scream.’ And I did [laughs]. It was an instantaneous success. They liked it and the movie simply lives without end with that photograph,” she mentioned.

She went on to seem reverse Rock Hudson in journey movie “The Golden Blade,” the place she gave him his first on-screen kiss. She re-teamed with Arnold for movie noir “The Glass Net,” then starred in “Three Dangerous Sisters.”

Within the Sixties and ’70s she appeared on quite a few TV exhibits, with recurring roles in “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” and “Bracken’s World” and visitor appearances on “Marcus Welby M.D.,” “Barnaby Jones,” “Mission: Unattainable,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” “M.A.S.H.” and “Right here’s Lucy.”

Hughes was married to producer Stanley Rubin, who died in 2014, for 59 years. She is survived by a daughter, Angie, and sons Michael and John. She was predeceased by her son Chris.