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 Posted:   Oct 21, 2010 - 11:06 PM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

Bumping this thread, the first of the Yum threads I started at this place, but not for the usual reason of a new spotlight. Instead it's to note a very sad and tragic story regarding one of the names previously profiled.



Dorian, aka Victoria Vetri, is also remembered for her starring role in "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" and as a moll of King Tut's in a Season 3 "Batman" episode. She also made the guest-star circuit on other TV shows in the late 60s and I have heard others say she is the uncredited live-action version of Gary Seven's "Isis" in the tag scene of "Assignment Earth".

Well, fame and success for many of these ladies of the 50s-60s-70s who have been part of these spotlights can be a very fleeting thing. Not everyone can endure in the business like a Raquel Welch with their fame intact for the long haul but many others do at least learn how to survive the pitfalls that inevitably have to come when youth fades and you have to survive in the world beyond the one that got you your brief period of fame and glory that the film camera manages to capture for posterity for future generations of viewers to enjoy and appreciate (and appreciating what these women brought to the screen in beauty and presence has always been what these threads have been about). Some however do not, and the results can be tragic.

This just got posted on a Batman message board. Dorian has been charged with attempted murder of her husband after shooting him in a domestic dispute. She is being held on a million dollars bail and faces life imprisonment if convicted.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_16392207?nclick_check=1

Sad and tragic on all levels. And a reminder of how the image a person projects before the camera that earns admiration and appreciation from the viewer watching is always just that....an image that tells us nothing of the real person off-screen.

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 22, 2010 - 12:29 AM   
 By:   filmusicnow   (Member)



CONGRATULATIONS!



Was this before or after she became Lost in Space? wink


It was a season before "Lost In Space".

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 22, 2010 - 12:31 AM   
 By:   filmusicnow   (Member)

Bumping this thread, the first of the Yum threads I started at this place, but not for the usual reason of a new spotlight. Instead it's to note a very sad and tragic story regarding one of the names previously profiled.



Dorian, aka Victoria Vetri, is also remembered for her starring role in "When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth" and as a moll of King Tut's in a Season 3 "Batman" episode. She also made the guest-star circuit on other TV shows in the late 60s and I have heard others say she is the uncredited live-action version of Gary Seven's "Isis" in the tag scene of "Assignment Earth".

Well, fame and success for many of these ladies of the 50s-60s-70s who have been part of these spotlights can be a very fleeting thing. Not everyone can endure in the business like a Raquel Welch with their fame intact for the long haul but many others do at least learn how to survive the pitfalls that inevitably have to come when youth fades and you have to survive in the world beyond the one that got you your brief period of fame and glory that the film camera manages to capture for posterity for future generations of viewers to enjoy and appreciate (and appreciating what these women brought to the screen in beauty and presence has always been what these threads have been about). Some however do not, and the results can be tragic.

This just got posted on a Batman message board. Dorian has been charged with attempted murder of her husband after shooting him in a domestic dispute. She is being held on a million dollars bail and faces life imprisonment if convicted.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_16392207?nclick_check=1

Sad and tragic on all levels. And a reminder of how the image a person projects before the camera that earns admiration and appreciation from the viewer watching is always just that....an image that tells us nothing of the real person off-screen.


Oh yes...Angela Dorian (real name Victoria Vetri) "Playboy"'s Miss September 1967 and Playmate Of The Year 1968.

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2011 - 12:12 PM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2011 - 2:40 PM   
 By:   TheSaint   (Member)



Nice pics, Mad!

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2011 - 2:52 PM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

Indeed, though I would have preferred a photo of Elsa Lanchester's assistant from that episode than the Bride of Frankenstein herself! smile

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2011 - 3:25 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)



CONGRATULATIONS!



Was this before or after she became Lost in Space? wink


It was a season before "Lost In Space".


can you repost the original post(s) with this picture?
thx

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2011 - 8:03 PM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2011 - 8:04 PM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

 
 Posted:   Jan 5, 2011 - 8:08 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

she's Judy from LIS, right?
after veronica in a bikini, she was probably the first live woman i ever, uh, ummm, you know....
choked the chicken...
in b & w , i thought her space outfit was actually a mini-skirt. So disappointing when i found out she was wearing pants.
Hot babe!
thanks!
brm

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2011 - 12:43 AM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

Madmovyman, thanks for this picture, I love it (and Marta). I've never seen this one before.

Is there any chance you have a good print of the photo that could be re-scanned? This particular scan is disjointed at two heights, as if the photo was moved horizontally while being scanned, and Marta's face has been repaired but foreshortened as a result. That (I think) is why she looks so full in the face. Can you help?

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2011 - 1:25 AM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

Great image of Janet Leigh from her appearance. I was struck by how in that episode it seemed like she was being given a chance to indulge in some Norman Bates like psycho moments herself!

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2011 - 8:10 AM   
 By:   madmovyman   (Member)

Madmovyman, thanks for this picture, I love it (and Marta). I've never seen this one before.

Is there any chance you have a good print of the photo that could be re-scanned? This particular scan is disjointed at two heights, as if the photo was moved horizontally while being scanned, and Marta's face has been repaired but foreshortened as a result. That (I think) is why she looks so full in the face. Can you help?


Zap,
The image used is a direct scan from an 8x10 photo in my collection. Yes, I have a crappy scanner. I'll see if I can get a better image up. Done!
M'man

 
 Posted:   Jan 7, 2011 - 6:36 PM   
 By:   ZapBrannigan   (Member)

I'll see if I can get a better image up. Done!
M'man



Thank you! Very nice indeed.

 
 
 Posted:   May 21, 2011 - 2:29 PM   
 By:   suburbanite   (Member)

S4's "The Test Tube Killer Affair" is probably the biggest example of overcompensation from S3 as it's the most downbeat MFU episode where we have a tragic romance and a finale where the bad guys escape right under the unknowing noses of Solo and Ilya.

Lyn Loring, who had been Efrem Zimbalist's daughter in the first season of "The FBI" and was also married to Roy Thinnes ("The Invaders") plays the naive American tourist who falls in love with a THRUSH agent in training, thinking he's one of the good guys.



Just rewatched this last night and it's mind-boggling how terrible it is. I agree with everything Eric said. Hard to know where to start.
1. The plot is not fit for escapist entertainment, IMO. It's kind of Boys From Brazil-ish with a vaguely German-sounding doctor training human assassins who are basically programmed to function like robots. They throw in a black guy and an Asian guy as trainees to make it diverse, but it still comes off as some kind of vaguely Aryan master-race plot, if you ask me.
2. That old mad scientist guy and the lead programmed guy have ZERO personality and are flatter than three-day-old soda as characters. To me, the best villains/villainesses have to be compelling and/or charming in some way. These guys are terrible and a waste of time.
3. The 'innocent' [played by Lynn Loring] is an absolute moron whose idiocy results in the deaths of others. As the saying goes, she couldn't spell cat if you spotted her the C and the A. A completely oblivious mental midget.
4. The ending, as Eric said, is a total downer in every way, including a failed attempt at redeeming the irredeemable antagonist.
5. The episode totally wastes Lyn Peters, she of the impeccable English accent and refinement, in a thankless role that could have been played by 200 other actresses. To harken back to another bad MFU ep, she should have been the lead in Her Master's Voice Affair rather than the wooden Marianne Osborne.

Sorry, just had to vent. This might be the worst ep of the series. Not one bit of fun in it.

 
 Posted:   May 21, 2011 - 2:53 PM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

The moral of the story for that episode is to never engage in "overcompensation" too much. I can't blame you for your reaction, suburbanite.

Lyn Peters is by far the only redeeming aspect of the episode.



One factoid about her that I didn't know at the time of the spotlight was that she later married Paul Burke, the star of "Naked City" and "Twelve O'Clock High" and was still married to him at the time of Burke's death last year.

 
 Posted:   Aug 30, 2011 - 7:06 PM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

The release of both "Girl From UNCLE" and the eight MFU movies on DVD by Warner Archive now allows for some updates to this thread once again!

First item I popped in was "Helicopter Spies", the theatrical re-edit of S4's "The Prince Of Darkness Affair" (which was a much better title; I don't get the meaning of the theatrical one at all since helicopters play only the slightest role in it!). Which gave us as the girl in distress, Carol Lynley.






Lola Albright ("Peter Gunn") as the lead henchlady of baddie Bradford Dillman.






Pick the one on your right, Napoleon or you'll be sorry! smile

 
 Posted:   Aug 30, 2011 - 7:08 PM   
 By:   Eric Paddon   (Member)

And saving the best for last, the woefully underutilized (in just two quick cameo scenes), Julie London as Dillman's estranged wife (the theatrical alternate version of her scenes had her in bed with a shirtless boy-toy of hers while the TV episode had her alone in her boudior)





 
 
 Posted:   Aug 30, 2011 - 11:51 PM   
 By:   suburbanite   (Member)

Thanks as always for the caps, Eric. I also ordered that set and what got my attention was, as you said, the fact that the theatrical version featured a boytoy in bed with London as opposed to her solo [no pun intended] bedroom scene in the American TV version. Struck me as funny about the mores of the time that seeing a pair of man-boobs plus the implication of forthcoming sex was more than we were deemed able to handle as a populace, but the rampant violence of MFU's season 4 was A-OK. Weird.

And yeah, Julie London was WAY underutilized in this TV show/film.

 
 Posted:   Aug 31, 2011 - 2:01 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

this show belongs in the "Most overrated classic tv shows" (right next to THE AVENGERS)
cant see any reason to check out the movie versions unless you are an UNCLE fanatic

 
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