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'{{infobox person |image= | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|03|1}} | birth_place = [[New York City, New York]], [[U.S.]] | occupation = [[Television]] [[actress]] | yearsactive = 1957&ndash;1970 | spouse = Steve Gravers (1958-1960) <ref>http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/540/Vitina+Marcus/index.html</ref> | partner = Rory Calhoun | children = Athena Marcus Calhoun (b. 1959)<ref>http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/1999/may/22/ex-showgirl-remembers-father-the-late-actor-rory-c/</ref><br>Giuliano Graham | website = {{URL|www.vitinamarcus.com}} }} '''Vitina Marcus''' (born [[March 1|Mrarch 1]], [[1937]] in [[New York City, New York]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[actress]] of [[Sicily#Demographics|Sicilian]] and [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]] descent. Her parents were Rose and Frank Marcus, and her Sicilian grandmother was named Vitina. == Early Life == ==Career== Ms. Marcus was a student of Lee Strasberg. She appeared in numerous television shows throughout the 1950s and '60s, sometimes billed as Dolores Vitina. She was cast in [[Irwin Allen]]'s 1960 production of ''[[The Lost World (1960 film)|The Lost World]]'', as well as ''[[Taras Bulba]]'' with [[Tony Curtis]] and [[Yul Brynner]]. Notably she appeared in two episodes of ''[[Lost in Space]]'' as "The Green Lady", Dr. Smith's most persistent and verdant admirer. She also appeared in ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)|Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]'', ''[[Have Gun Will Travel]]'' as Della White Cloud, an [[Apache]] princess, including the second-season episode "Return of the Phantom", and in episodes 24 & 26 of ''[[The Time Tunnel]]'', "Chase Through Time" and "Attack Of The Barbarians". She starred in the TV series, ''[[Gunsmoke (TV series)|Gunsmoke]]'' episode, "The Squaw" as Natacea (1961). In 1962, she portrayed the role of Wahkshum, in the episode "The Peddler", of CBS's ''[[Rawhide (TV series)|Rawhide]]''. ==Personal Life== She gave birth to a daughter, Athena, and a son, Giuliano.<ref>http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/1999/may/22/ex-showgirl-remembers-father-the-late-actor-rory-c/</ref> Marcus left Hollywood in the late 1960s. She now resides in Las Vegas and is involved in real estate.<ref>Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-movie Starlets of the Sixties, By Tom Lisanti, Published by McFarland, 2003,ISBN 0-7864-1575-4, ISBN 978-0-7864-1575-5</ref> 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". Athena was also the weekly segment talk show host of Solid POI's ''Las Vegas Then & Now'' on radio station KLAV 1230 AM.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *{{Official website}} *{{IMDb name|id=0546200|name=Vitina Marcus}} {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. --> | NAME =Marcus, Vitina | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American actor | DATE OF BIRTH =1937-03-01 | PLACE OF BIRTH =[[New York City, New York]] | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Marcus, Vitina}} [[Category:American television actresses]] [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:Living people]] {{US-tv-actor-1940s-stub}}'