Victoria Vetri

Angela Dorian
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
(1944-09-26) September 26, 1944
San Francisco, California, United States, North America
Measurements Bust: 36 in (91 cm) (910 mm)
Waist: 21 in (53 cm) (530 mm)
Hips: 35 in (89 cm) (890 mm)
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Weight 109 lb (49 kg; 7.8 st)

Victoria Vetri (born September 26, 1944; aka Angela Dorian and Victoria Rathgeb) is an American model and actress.

Biography

Background and early career

Vetri was born in San Francisco, California to parents who were immigrants from Italy. 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.

Although a singer and dancer, Vetri rejected the role of the voice dub for Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961). Of this she remarked: "I did not want to be known as a standby." (Marni Nixon ultimately accepted the work.) She auditioned for the title role in the Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Lolita, but the role went to Sue Lyon instead.

In 1965, Vetri played Debbie Conrad in the title role of the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Golden Girls". She was also writing poetry and playing guitar during this period.

Playboy involvement

Using the name Angela Dorian, Vetri was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for the September 1967 issue and subsequently was the 1968 Playmate of the Year. Her centerfold was photographed by Carl Gunther. Vetri won US$20,000 in prizes when she was selected Playmate of the Year. Among these were a new car (an all pink 1968 AMC AMX[1]), 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 scanned and inserted into Apollo 12 Extra-vehicular activity astronaut cuff checklists by pranksters at NASA.[2][3]

In late 1960s films

Vetri appeared briefly in Rosemary's Baby, where she was credited as Angela Dorian. In one scene, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) remarks of her character, Teresa "Terry" Gionoffrio, that she resembles the actress Victoria Vetri.[4][5]

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 March 1971. Ironically, one of her most oft-recalled roles was a brief non-speaking bit: the human form of a shape-shifting cat in a Star Trek episode ("Assignment: Earth").

Val Guest who directed her in Dinosaurs called Vetri "a real nothing, and a very strange mixed up lady... it was tough to take her. She was a... nitwit."[6]

Vetri posed topless for the April 1984 Playboy pictorial Playmates Forever! Part Two.

In Tom Clancy's 2004 biography of Gen. Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret.), Battle Ready (Chapter 2), Zinni remarks on having received a copy of the September 1967 Playboy Centerfold foldout from a group of other advisers for his birthday. He still has it as a memento of his time in Vietnam.

Personal life

Marriage

Vetri married Bruce Rathgeb in 1986, and came to be known legally as Victoria Rathgeb as a direct result of the marriage. They were not known to have had any children.

Attempted manslaughter conviction

Vetri was charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting Rathgeb from close range inside the Hollywood apartment they were then sharing after an argument on Saturday, October 16, 2010.[7]

The Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division arrested Vetri the same day, and she was jailed on US$1.53 million bail, which the judge refused to reduce, pending trial. In January 2011, the same judge denied her attorney's request for a reduction of the charge of attempted murder, and she was ordered to stand trial on that charge.[8]

However, between January and September 2011, the charge against Vetri was reduced to attempted voluntary manslaughter, to which she eventually pleaded no contest. The judge sentenced her to nine years in state prison.[9]

Filmography

TV guest appearances

See also

References

  1. ↑ "1968 AMC Playmate of the Year AMX - Jay Leno's Garage". YouTube. 2015-04-19. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  2. ↑ "Playboy Playmates pranked into Apollo 12 mission checklists - Boing Boing". boingboing.net. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  3. ↑ "Image: a12.cdrcuf08.jpg, (630 × 432 px)". hq.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  4. ↑ (Paramount Home Video DVD, at time code 00:12:50)
  5. ↑ "Victoria Vetri - IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  6. ↑ Tom Weaver, "Val Guest", Double Feature Creature Attack: A Monster Merger of Two More Volumes of Classic Interviews McFarland, 2003 p 122
  7. ↑ "1968 Playmate Angela Dorian Shot Her Boyfriend? | TMZ.com". tmz.com. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  8. ↑ "Trial Ordered For Ex-Playmate In Husband’s Shooting « CBS Los Angeles". losangeles.cbslocal.com. Retrieved 2015-09-02.
  9. ↑ "Ex-Playmate gets 9 years for wounding husband  | accessAtlanta". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2012-03-23. Retrieved 2015-09-02.

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