Vitina Marcus | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dolores Vitina Marcus March 1, 1937 Brooklyn, New York U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Television and film actress |
| Years active | 1957–1970 |
| Spouses | Steve Gravers (m. 1958–1960)George Graham (m. 1971–1979) |
| Partner | Rory Calhoun |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Vitina Marcus (born March 1, 1937) 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.
Born in New York City, Marcus was a student of Lee Strasberg. 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.
Marcus gave birth to a daughter, Athena, and a son, Giuliano.[1] She left Hollywood in the late 1960s,[2] 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.[3][4]
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".[1] Athena was also the weekly segment talk show host of Solid POI's Las Vegas Then & Now on radio station KLAV 1230 AM.[5][6]
| 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 |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Have Gun Will Travel | Della White Cloud | S2E18 "Lady on the Stagecoach" |
| 1961 | Sea Hunt | Tali | S4E8 "Mercy Ship" |
| 1961 & 1962 | Gunsmoke | Natacea | S7E7 “The Squaw” & S8E16 “Old Comrade” |
| 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" |
