Victoria Vetri

Infobox Playboy Playmate
name = Angela Dorian


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issue = September 1967
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birthplace = San Francisco, California, U.S.
birthdate = birth date and age|mf=yes|1944|9|26
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bust = 36"
waist = 21"
hips = 35"
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weight = convert|109|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on
preceded = DeDe Lind
succeeded = Reagan Wilson
pmoy-year = 1968
pmoy-preceded = Lisa Baker
pmoy-succeeded = Connie Kreski
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Victoria Vetri (born September 26, 1944) is an American model and actress.

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 modelling in her teens. Vetri is a singer and dancer who once turned down 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." She also auditioned for the title role in the Stanley Kubrick adaptation of "Lolita" but lost the role to Sue Lyon. She also writes poetry and plays guitar. Using the name Angela Dorian, she 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 $20,000 in prizes when she was selected Playmate of the Year. Among these were a new car (an all pink AMC AMX), gold watch, skis and a ski outfit, a complete wardrobe, a movie camera, a typewriter, a tape recorder, a stereo, and a guitar. Her centerfold photo (along with Leslie Bianchini, Reagan Wilson and Cynthia Myers) was scanned and inserted into Apollo 12 Extra-vehicular activity astronaut cuff checklists by pranksters at NASA. [ [http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/13/playboy_playmates_pr.html Playboy Playmates pranked into Apollo 12 mission checklists - Boing Boing ] ] [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a12/a12.cdrcuf08.jpg]

She appears briefly in "Rosemary's Baby", credited as "Angela Dorian". In one scene Rosemary remarks that she resembles the actress Victoria Vetri. In January 1969, she signed a multi-picture contract with Warner Seven Arts. Vetri 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.

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.

The heroine of "Da Vinci Code" prequel "Angels & Demons", published in 2000, is called Vittoria Vetra. A scientist working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Geneva, Switzerland, the character's name and physical description are both based on Victoria Vetri's. Author Dan Brown has acknowledged in various interviews that he is a long-time admirer of the actress and intentionally modelled "Angels & Demons"' Italian physicist and marine biologist on Vetri. Vittoria Vetra is being played by Naomi Watts in the film adaptation of the novel being directed by Ron Howard.

Filmography

*"Invasion of the Bee Girls" (1973)
*"Group Marriage" (1973)
*"Incident in San Francisco" (1971) (TV)
*"Night Chase" (1970) (TV)
*"When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" (1970)
*"The Pigeon" (1969) (TV)
*"Rosemary's Baby" (1968) (Terry Gionoffrio)
*"Chuka" (1967) (as Angela Dorian)
*"Kings of the Sun" (1963)
*"The Pigeon That Took Rome" (1962)

TV guest appearances

*"Lucas Tanner" playing "Connie" in episode: "Bonus Baby" (episode # 1.12) January 8, 1975
*"" playing "Eve Zembra" in episode: "Squeeze Play" (episode # 5.12) December 12, 1970
*"Daniel Boone" playing "Susan Pepper" in episode: "Noblesse Oblige" (episode # 6.22) March 26, 1970
*"Land of the Giants" playing "Lisa" in episode: "The Marionettes" (episode # 2.23) March 1, 1970
*"The Courtship of Eddie's Father" playing "Dolly" in episode: "Mrs. Livingston, I Presume" (episode # 1.1) September 17, 1969
*"" playing "Isis" in human form in the episode "Assignment: Earth" in March 29, 1968
*"Batman" playing "Florence of Arabia" (as Angela Dorian) in episode: "I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle" (episode # 3.23) February 22, 1968
*"Death Valley Days" playing "Sacajawea" (as Angela Dorian) in episode: "The Girl Who Walked the West" (episode # 16.5) November 4, 1967
*"Hogan's Heroes" playing "Carla" (as Angela Dorian) in episode: "The Crittendon Plan" (episode # 3.1) September 9, 1967
*"The Big Valley" playing "Teresa" (as Angela Dorian) in episode: "Legend of a General: Part 2" (episode # 2.3) September 26, 1966
*"The Big Valley" playing "Teresa" (as Angela Dorian) in episode: "Legend of a General: Part 1" (episode # 2.2) September 19, 1966
*"The Man from U.N.C.L.E." playing "Charisma Highcloud" in episode: "The Indian Affairs Affair" (episode # 2.30) April 15, 1966
*"Run for Your Life" playing "Carmen" (as Angela Dorian) in episode: "Carnival Ends at Midnight" (episode # 1.16) January 10, 1966
*"Perry Mason" playing "Debbie Conrad" in episode: "The Case of the Golden Girls" (episode # 9.14) December 19, 1965
*"Bonanza" playing "Essie" in episode: "Devil on Her Shoulder" (episode # 7.6) October 17, 1965
*"Wagon Train" playing "Marie" (as Angela Dorian) in episode: "The Jarbo Pierce Story" (episode # 8.26) May 2, 1965
*"Wagon Train" playing "Maria" (as Angela Dorian) in episode: "The Zebedee Titus Story" (episode # 7.31) April 20, 1964
*"Destry" playing "Malya" (as Angela Dorian) in episode: "Ride to Rio Verde" (episode # 1.9) April 10, 1964
*"Combat!" playing "Teresa Borrelli" in episode: "Next of Kin" (episode # 1.19) February 9, 1963
*"The Gallant Men" playing "Sister Catherine" in episode: "A Place to Die" (episode # 1.12) December 21, 1962
*"Cheyenne" playing "White Bird" (as Angela Dorian) in episode: "Johnny Brassbuttons" (episode # 7.11) December 3, 1962

ee also

*List of people in Playboy 1960-1969

Further reading

* The Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gazette, "Hollywood Picks Playmate Angela", January 26, 1969, Page 69.
*Lima, Ohio News, "Miss Mooney Movie Stars Repeats Vows Following New Pattern", August 10, 1969, Page 12E.
*Long Beach, California Independent, "Miss Dorian Makes Debut as Playmate", April 11, 1968, Page 18.
*Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, "AMX To Playmate", April 28, 1968, Page 81.
*Long Beach Press-Telegram, "Southland Sunday", March 7, 1971, Page 106.

References

External links

*playmate|1967|9
*imdb|id=0895407|name=Victoria Vetri
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/victoriavetri/ Victoria Vetri Fan Club]
* [http://hammerglam.topcities.com/actresses/vetri.htm Hammer Glamour's Victoria Vetri Biography]