Vitina Marcus is a retired American actress of Sicilian and Hungarian descent. Her parents were Rose and Frank Marcus, and her Sicilian grandmother was named Vitina. She now works in real estate.[citation needed]

Vitina Marcus
Born
Occupation(s)Television and film actress
Years active1957–1970
Spouses
Steve Gravers
(m. 1958⁠–⁠1960)
[1]
George Graham
(m. 1971⁠–⁠1979)
PartnerRory Calhoun
ChildrenAthena (b. 1959)
Giuliano[2]
Websitewww.vitinamarcus.com[dead link]

Career

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Born in New York City, Marcus was a student of Lee Strasberg.[citation needed] She appeared in numerous television shows throughout the 1950s and '60s and was sometimes billed as Dolores Vitina, as in the 1958 film Never Love a Stranger, starring John Drew Barrymore and Steve McQueen. She was in Irwin Allen's 1960 production of The Lost World, as well as Taras Bulba (1962) with Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner.

On television, she appeared in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, including the first-season episode "Turn Back the Clock" (in which producer Irwin Allen reused some of her footage from The Lost World) and the second-season episode "Return of the Phantom".

She appeared in two episodes of Lost in Space as 'The Green Lady' (aka 'Athena'), an admirer of stowaway Dr. Zachary Smith's, who endangers the Jupiter II; Have Gun – Will Travel as Della White Cloud, an Apache princess; and in episodes 24 and 26 of The Time Tunnel, "Chase through Time" and "Attack of the Barbarians". Marcus was in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "My Friend: The Gorilla Affair", in 1966. She guest-starred in the TV series Gunsmoke's episodes "The Squaw" as Natacea (1961) and "Old Comrade" as Missy (1962). In 1962, she portrayed "Wahkshum" in the episode "The Peddler" on CBS' Rawhide.

Personal life

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Marcus gave birth to a daughter, Athena, and a son, Giuliano.[3] She left Hollywood in the late 1960s,[4] and has resided in Las Vegas since the mid-1970s, earning her real estate license in 1986. She has been in real estate since then as Vitina Graham.[5][6]

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Her daughter with actor Rory Calhoun, Athena "Kiki" Marcus Calhoun, was voted "The World's Most Beautiful Showgirl" in 1987, and received "The Key to the City of Las Vegas".[3] Athena was also the weekly segment talk show host of Solid POI's Las Vegas Then & Now on radio station KLAV 1230 AM.[7][8]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
1958 Never Love a Stranger Frances Kane
1960 The Lost World Native Girl
1962 Taras Bulba Gypsy Princess
1964 Bedtime Story Pretty Girl Uncredited

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1957 Kraft Television Theatre unknown (as Dolores Vitina) S11E13 "The Other Wise Man"
1958 Have Gun Will Travel Della White Cloud (as Dolores Vitina) S2E18 "Lady on the Stagecoach"
1959 Mike Hammer Maureena Zabreski (as Dolores Vitina) S2E31 "Doll Trouble"
1959 Death Valley Days Cohantis (as Dolores Vitina) S8E4 "The Grand Duke"
1959 Wagon Train Veranique (as Dolores Vitina) S3E11 "The Vittorio Bottecelli Story"
1960 Shotgun Slade Unnamed S1E18 "The Lady and the Piano"
1961 Sea Hunt Tali S4E8 "Mercy Ship"
1962 Rawhide Wahkshum S4E15 "The Peddler"
1961 & 1962 Gunsmoke Natacea S7E7 “The Squaw” & S8E16 “Old Comrade”
1964 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Irina S1E17 "The Day of the Wizard"
1964 The Virginian Raven Wing Squaw (uncredited) S2E28 "A Bride for Lars"
1964 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Native Girl S1E7 "Turn Back the Clock"
1966 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Lani S2E26 "The Return of the Phantom"
1966 The Man from UNCLE Girl S3E14 "The My Friend The Gorilla Affair"
1966 Lost in Space Lorelei S2E2 "Wild Adventure"
1967 Lost in Space Athena S2E16 "The Girl From the Green Dimension"
1967 The Time Tunnel Z24A19 (Zee) S1E24 "Chase Through Time"
1967 The Time Tunnel Sarit S1E26 "Attack of the Barbarians"
1970 The F.B.I. Linda S5E18 "Conspiracy of Corruption"
1970 To Rome with Love Signora Cardozza S1E19 "Birds, Bees and Romans"
1970 To Rome with Love Professor Venturi S1E20 "The Pretty Little Girl"

References

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  1. ^ "Vitina Marcus - the Private Life and Times of Vitina Marcus. Vitina Marcus Pictures".
  2. ^ "Vitina Marcus - the Private Life and Times of Vitina Marcus. Vitina Marcus Pictures".
  3. ^ a b "Ex-showgirl remembers father, the late actor Rory Calhoun". The Las Vegas Sun. May 22, 1999. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  4. ^ Lisanti, Tom (2003). Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-movie Starlets of the Sixties. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1575-5.
  5. ^ "Still 'Space'-y after all these years". The Las Vegas Sun. April 10, 1998. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  6. ^ "Vitina Graham". Agent Lighthouse: US Real Estate Agent directory. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  7. ^ "Vitina Marcus - The Private Life and Times of Vitina Marcus. Vitina Marcus Pictures". Glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  8. ^ "Las Vegas Then and Now". Cast And Crew Reunions. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
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