Angela Dorian

[Christopher]

I can't beleive this is still a matter of discussion. It's her. Case closed.

Actually, that doesn't seem to be true. It appears to be her (although some disagree), but even the site that initially suggested that it might be her admits that it isn't a positive identification. Memory Alpha claims it's her, but it's pointed out on her entry's Talk page that this is not a definitive identification. IMDb claims it's her, but you yourself say that IMDb can't be entirely trusted.

So at best it's a plausible but unconfirmed identification. You can't say "case closed" if you haven't proven the case beyond a reasonable doubt. We wouldn't know for certain unless Mrs. Rathgeb (nee Vetri) or someone else involved with the casting or production of "Assignment: Earth" confirmed it.

(And isn't it Anouk Aimée rather than Aimee Amouk?)

 

[scotpens]

. . . And isn't it Anouk Aimée rather than Aimee Amouk?

Aimee Amouk had a small role in the classic TOS ep “Amouk Time.”

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Yep, it's Aimee Amouk. Just busy at work when typing. But for ME, the case is closed. Frankly, I don't debate things to death anymore.

Scotpens, LOL! Yeah, there is that.

 

[Christopher]

Yep, it's Aimee Amouk.

No, it really isn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anouk_Aimée

But for ME, the case is closed. Frankly, I don't debate things to death anymore.

But you could clearly stand to check your facts a little more before assuming you're right about something. There's no reason to be afraid of saying "I don't know." To me, Vetri looks reasonably like Isis; it certainly could be her. But it doesn't do any harm to acknowledge that we don't know for certain. There's nothing wrong with just accepting that it's undecided, keeping an open mind for new information that might come along. People these days are too driven to pretend absolute conviction about everything, and it makes them too inflexible.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Naw, people are just too tired after ten hours at work to give a damn.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Oh, and Denise Crosby did a Playboy pictorial in 1979, though she wasn't a Playmate.

Did she not also have a very brief topless appearance in 48Hrs?

 

[scotpens]

I can't imagine why someone with a striking name like Victoria Vetri would choose the blander "Angela Dorian" as a stage name. I could see her using a pseudonym to appear in Playboy out of concerns for her family's respectability or something, but why that one?

According to her IMDb page, she “took her stage name from the ill-fated cruise liner Andrea Doria.”

So she named herself after a big boat that got rammed.

 

[Captain Robert April]

^ Charming.

 

[Jeri]

I think she was a dancer; look at her body in my avatar picture. She's stringy and tough like a dancer. So, just a jock; what can you expect.

 

[Christopher]

I think she was a dancer; look at her body in my avatar picture.

Well, okay, if I must...

 

[Jeri]

He, he. Btw, that was no insult; I think her body looks amazing.

 

[Christopher]

I wasn't disagreeing...

 

[Christopher]

Sorry for the thread bump, but I've just seen a Mission: Impossible episode ("Squeeze Play" from 1970) in which Victoria Vetri (aka Angela Dorian) played a featured guest role, and I'm now almost completely convinced that she did not play Isis in "Assignment: Earth." In the M:I episode, she had a distinctive pigment speck on the white of her left eye (in the half of the eye toward the temple), and from the pictures I can find online, it looks like it was probably there prior to 1968 as well. But the Isis actress doesn't have the speck. (Umm, I tried linking to the TrekCore screencap for this, but it didn't work.) Also, the Isis portrayer's eyes are gray or green while Vetri's are a rich brown. And while "Isis" has a similar bone structure to Vetri, Vetri had a more girlish, innocent look, kinda like Dawn Wells from Gilligan's Island. Not to mention that, err, "Isis" doesn't seem to have quite as ample a chest as Vetri. So I just don't think it's her.

 

[Greg Cox]

Okay, was it a cat who could become a woman, or was she a woman who could become a cat?

I never have got that straight.

That's because nobody knows. The episode is ambiguous on that point.

True confession: One of my Gary Seven books originally contained a scene in which Roberta Lincoln turns into a blonde tabby cat, having apparently learned the trick from Isis.

No surprise, my editor thought this was pushing it and vetoed the scene--which was probably the right call!

So, does anybody know why Teri Garr doesn't like to talk about the ep?

 

[Christopher]

John Byrne's Assignment: Earth comics appear to go with the theory that Gary Seven's alien bosses are nonhumanoid shapeshifters and Isis is one of them. I pretty much went with that (at least implicitly) in DTI: Watching the Clock.

 

[T'Girl]

So, does anybody know why Teri Garr doesn't like to talk about the ep?

It is a bit strange, Star Trek was I believe her first real costarring role in 1968 when she was making the transition from dancer to actress. Given her relative inexperience, it was really a good performance.

Nobody says she has to do conventions.

 

[Captain Robert April]

I think it was a bad fan reaction, i.e., overly enthusiastic Trekkies making a very bad first impression and turning her off from the whole thing.

She's not the only one to go this route. Robert Brown (Lazarus) had a bad experience at one of the early cons and swore off the whole thing.

 

[Captain Robert April]

Sorry for the thread bump, but I've just seen a Mission: Impossible episode ("Squeeze Play" from 1970) in which Victoria Vetri (aka Angela Dorian) played a featured guest role, and I'm now almost completely convinced that she did not play Isis in "Assignment: Earth." In the M:I episode, she had a distinctive pigment speck on the white of her left eye (in the half of the eye toward the temple), and from the pictures I can find online, it looks like it was probably there prior to 1968 as well. But the Isis actress doesn't have the speck. (Umm, I tried linking to the TrekCore screencap for this, but it didn't work.) Also, the Isis portrayer's eyes are gray or green while Vetri's are a rich brown. And while "Isis" has a similar bone structure to Vetri, Vetri had a more girlish, innocent look, kinda like Dawn Wells from Gilligan's Island. Not to mention that, err, "Isis" doesn't seem to have quite as ample a chest as Vetri. So I just don't think it's her.

Well, "Assignment: Earth" is on her imdb.com page, so...

 

[Christopher]

^And IMDb is often wrong. Somebody only put that there because of the site linked earlier in this thread where someone made the tentative identification. But even the person who posted that site said it was unconfirmed.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Oh, and Denise Crosby did a Playboy pictorial in 1979, though she wasn't a Playmate.

Did she not also have a very brief topless appearance in 48Hrs?

And a much longer one in the Red Shoe Diaries.

Has this thread really gone on this long with no one mentioning Angelique Pettyjohn?