Victoria Vetri

Using the name Angela Dorian, Vetri was chosen as Playboy Playmate of the Month for the September 1967 issue and subsequently was the 1968 Playmate of the Year. Her centerfold was photographed by Curt Gunther. Vetri won $20,000 when she was selected Playmate of the Year. Other prizes included a new car (an all pink 1968 AMC AMX[4]), gold watch, skis and a ski outfit, a complete wardrobe, a movie camera, a typewriter, a tape recorder, a stereo, and a guitar. A nude photo of her (along with fellow playmates Leslie Bianchini, Reagan Wilson, and Cynthia Myers) was inserted into Apollo 12 Extra-vehicular activity astronaut cuff checklists by pranksters at NASA.[5][6]

Thinking it would give her the pick of acting roles, Vetri took on modelling for Playboy.[7] However, despite being a Playmate of the Year, she said that posing actually hindered her career by limiting the roles she was offered. She felt she was typecast because of her beauty.[8]

Vetri posed topless for the April 1984 Playboy pictorial Playmates Forever! Part Two.[9] In Tom Clancy's 2004 biography of Gen. Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret.), Zinni remarks on having received a copy of the September 1967 Playboy centerfold from a group of advisers for his birthday. He still has it as a memento of his time in Vietnam.[10]

Vetri appeared briefly in Rosemary's Baby, where she was credited as Angela Dorian. In one scene, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) remarks to Vetri's character, Teresa, that she resembles the actress Victoria Vetri.[11]

In January 1969, Vetri signed a multi-picture contract with Warner Bros.-Seven Arts and was given a starring role in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. She refused to have her hair turned blonde from its natural auburn for the film. The story required a blonde, so Vetri demanded a wig instead. Columnist Hy Gardner nominated Vetri as "a new sex symbol on the Hollywood horizon" in 1971.[12]

Vetri has been incorrectly identified in numerous sources as playing the role of the "human form of a shape-shifting cat" in the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" (a role actually played by April Tatro[13]). Vetri emphatically states she never appeared on Star Trek, saying, "I was never in an episode of STAR TREK. I know that people think I was [...] I am not sure who she was. Look close enough and you can see that she has blue eyes and I, of course, have brown."[14]