Victoria Vetri
Victoria Vetri (born September 26, 1944; also known as Angela Dorian and Victoria Rathgeb) is an American model and actress.[1]
Angela Dorian | |
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Playboy centerfold appearance | |
September 1967 | |
Preceded by | DeDe Lind |
Succeeded by | Reagan Wilson |
Playboy Playmate of the Year | |
1968 | |
Preceded by | Lisa Baker |
Succeeded by | Connie Kreski |
Personal details | |
Born | Victoria Vetri September 26, 1944 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Measurements | Bust: 36 in (910 mm) Waist: 21 in (530 mm) Hips: 35 in (890 mm) |
Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
Weight | 109 lb (49 kg; 7.8 st) |
Vetri was born in the Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles, California to parents who were immigrants from Italy.[2][3] She attended Hollywood High School in Hollywood, California between 1959 and 1963 and later studied art at Los Angeles City College. She began acting and modeling in her teens.[1]
Career
Playboy
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]
Films
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]
Star Trek
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]
Personal life
She married Hugh Terry Whettam on April 7, 1963; her son, Bret, was born on September 8,1963. They were divorced in 1966. She then married John Lee Hage on December 29, 1966, and were divorced in 1967. She married Heinz Gottfried Schwetz on November 13, 1978 and were divorced in February 25, 1983.[1] She married Bruce Rathgeb in 1986.
Vetri was charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting Rathgeb from close range inside the Hollywood apartment they were sharing after an argument on Saturday, October 16, 2010.[15][16]
The Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division arrested Vetri. She was jailed on $1.53 million USD bail. The judge refused to reduce it, pending the trial. In January 2011, the judge also denied her attorney's request for a reduction of the charge of attempted murder. She was ordered to stand trial on that charge.[17]
Between January and September 2011, the charge against Vetri was reduced to attempted voluntary manslaughter. She entered a plea of no contest. The judge sentenced her to nine years in state prison.[18] She was released on parole in April 2018.[19]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1962 | The Pigeon That Took Rome | ||
1963 | Kings of the Sun | Ixzubin | |
1967 | Chuka | Helena Chavez | |
1968 | Rosemary's Baby | Terry Gionoffrio | |
1970 | When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth | Sanna | |
1973 | Group Marriage | Jan | |
1973 | Invasion of the Bee Girls | Julie Zorn |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1962 | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | "The Maid Of Honor" Member of wedding party | |
1962 | Going My Way | Carmel | "The Father" |
1962 | Cheyenne | White Bird | "Johnny Brassbuttons" |
1962 | Hawaiian Eye | Kini | "To See, Perchance to Dream" |
1962–63 | The Gallant Men | Sister Catherine / Teresa Borrelli | "A Place to Die", "Next of Kin" |
1964 | Destry | Maiya | "Ride to Rio Verde" |
1964 | The Tenderfoot: Part 2 | Margarita | Disney TV film |
1964 | The Bill Dana Show | Maria | "Jose on the Ledge or the Crystal Room" |
1964–65 | Wagon Train | Maria / Marie | "The Zebedee Titus Story", "The Jarbo Pierce Story" |
1965 | McHale's Navy | Gina | "Marriage, McHale Style" |
1965 | Bonanza | Essie | "Devil on Her Shoulder" |
1965 | Perry Mason | Debbie Conrad | "The Case of the Golden Girls" |
1966 | Run for Your Life | Carmen | "Carnival Ends at Midnight" |
1966 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Charisma Highcloud | "The Indian Affairs Affair" |
1966 | The Big Valley | Teresa | "Legend of a General: Parts 1 & 2" |
1967 | Hogan's Heroes | Carla | "The Crittendon Plan" |
1967 | Death Valley Days | Sacagawea | "The Girl Who Walked the West" |
1968 | Batman | Florence of Arabia | "I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle" |
1969 | The Courtship of Eddie's Father | Dolly Daly | "Mrs. Livingston, I Presume" |
1969 | The Pigeon | Barbara Hagen | TV film |
1970 | Land of the Giants | Lisa | "The Marionettes" |
1970 | Daniel Boone | Susan | "Noblesse Oblige" |
1970 | Night Chase | Beverly Dorn | TV film |
1970 | Mission: Impossible | Eve Zembra | "Squeeze Play" |
1970 | To Rome with Love | Christina | "Doctor Andy" |
1971 | Incident In San Francisco | TV film | |
1975 | Lucas Tanner | Connie | "Bonus Baby" |
See also
References
- "Victoria Vetri". Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- Lisanti, Tom (2007). Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0786431724.
- "Victoria Vetri". IMDb.
- "1968 AMC Playmate of the Year AMX - Jay Leno's Garage". YouTube. 19 April 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
- "Playboy Playmates pranked into Apollo 12 mission checklists - Boing Boing". boingboing.net. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- "Image: a12.cdrcuf08.jpg, (630 × 432 px)". hq.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- Lisanti, Tom (2015). Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood. McFarland.
- Svehla, Gary J. (1996). Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media.
- "Angela Dorian". Playboy Plus.
- Clancy, Tom; Zinni, Tony; Koltz, Tony (3 May 2005). "2". Battle Ready. Berkley. ISBN 978-0425198926.
- Rosemary's Baby (DVD). Paramount Home Video. Event occurs at 00:12:50.
- Hy Gardner (25 April 1971). "Ex-'Playmate' is new Cave Girl Sex Symbol". The Tampa Tribune. Tampa, Florida. p. 148.
- Pascale, Anthony. "'Star Trek' Mystery Solved – Isis Actress From "Assignment: Earth" Identified". TrekMovie.com. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- Reed, Michael Augustine. "Interview with Victoria Vetri — "Sanna"". LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS Magazine #41: 71.
- "1968 Playmate Angela Dorian Shot Her Boyfriend? | TMZ.com". tmz.com. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- Martinez, Edecio (20 October 2010). "1968 Playboy Playmate Charged with Attempted Murder, Says Report". CBS NEWS.
- "Trial Ordered For Ex-Playmate In Husband's Shooting « CBS Los Angeles". losangeles.cbslocal.com. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- "Ex-Playmate gets 9 years for wounding husband | accessAtlanta". Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- Reid, John. "Victoria Vetri - Star of When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth - An Interesting Life". News. Moviemem.
Bibliography
- "Hollywood Picks Playmate Angela". The Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gazette. 26 January 1969. p. 69.
- "Miss Mooney Movie Stars Repeats Vows Following New Pattern". Lima, Ohio News. 10 August 1969. p. 12E.
- "Miss Dorian Makes Debut as Playmate". Long Beach, California Independent. 11 April 1968. p. 18.
- "AMX To Playmate". Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram. 28 April 1968. p. 81.
- "Southland Sunday". Long Beach Press-Telegram. 7 March 1971. p. 106.