{{short description|American model and actress (born 1944)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Victoria Vetri | image = When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) trailer - Victoria Vetri 1.png | alt = | caption = Vetri in ''When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth'' | birth_name = Victoria Cecilia Vetri | birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1944|9|26}} | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = Angela Dorian | occupation = Actress, model | known_for = | notable_works = | years_active = 1962–1975 | spouse = {{marriage|Hugh Whettam|1963|1966|reason=divorced}}<br>{{marriage|John Lee Hage|1966|1967|reason=divorced}}<br>{{marriage|Heinz Gottfried Schwetz|1978|1983|reason=divorced}}<br>{{marriage|Bruce Rathgeb|1986|2016|reason=divorced}} | children = 1<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/627/Victoria+Vetri/index.html|title = Victoria Vetri - the Private Life and Times of Victoria Vetri|accessdate=September 5, 2022}}</ref> }}
'''Victoria Cecilia Vetri''' (born September 26, 1944; also known as '''Angela Dorian''' and '''Victoria Rathgeb''') is an American model and actress.<ref name="glamour" />
==Early life and education== Vetri was born in San Francisco, California, to Italian immigrant parents.<ref name="Lisanti">{{Cite book |last=Lisanti |first=Tom |title=Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles |date=2007 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0786431724}}</ref> She attended Hollywood High School between 1959 and 1963<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kleiner |first1=Dick |title=Kooky Angela Dorian Arrives |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-union-victoria-vetri-born-1/181342967/ |work=The Morning Union |date=January 28, 1967 |location=Springfield, MA |page=14 |access-date=September 19, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref> and later studied art at Los Angeles City College. She began acting and modeling in her teens.<ref name="glamour" />
==Career== ===Television and film=== While Vetri was in high school director Robert Wise considered casting her as Maria in the 1961 film ''West Side Story'', but the studio selected Natalie Wood.<ref name="glamour" /> In her early career Vetri often was cast in ethnic roles on television "due to her Italian heritage",<ref name="McF1">{{Cite book |last=Lisanti |first=Tom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ITClSVUV7voC&q=Victoria+Vetri%2C+playboy+led+to+movie+roles&pg=PA214 |title=Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood |publisher=McFarland |year=2015|isbn=9781476612416 }}</ref> such as a Native American in ''Cheyenne'' and a Mexican in ''Wagon Train''. She also landed ethnic roles in film, including a member of an ancient Maya civilization in the 1963 film ''Kings of the Sun'' and a Mexican in the 1967 film ''Chuka''.<ref name="McF1" />
Vetri appeared briefly in the 1968 film ''Rosemary's Baby'', where she was credited as Angela Dorian. In one scene, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) remarks to Vetri's character, Terry Gionoffrio, that she resembles the actress Victoria Vetri.<ref>{{Cite AV media |title=Rosemary's Baby |publisher=Paramount Home Video |time=00:12:50 |medium=DVD}}</ref>
In January 1969, Vetri signed a multi-picture contract with Warner Bros.-Seven Arts and 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 1971.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hy Gardner |author-link=Hy Gardner |date=1971-04-25 |title=Ex-'Playmate' is new Cave Girl Sex Symbol |page=148 |work=The Tampa Tribune |location=Tampa, Florida |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/332218371/?terms=Ex-%27Playmate%27%2Bis%2Bnew%2BCave%2BGirl%2BSex%2BSymbol}}</ref> In her 70s in 2018, Vetri reportedly claimed she planned to return to acting.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TAC 119 - Victoria Vetri (Playboy PMOY '68) - Josef Newgarden (IndyCar) |url=https://knx1070.radio.com/media/audio-channel/tac-119-victoria-vetri-playboy-pmoy-68-josef-newgarden-indycar |via=knx1070.radio.com}}</ref>
=== ''Star Trek''=== Vetri has been incorrectly identified in numerous sources as playing the role of the "human form of a shape-shifting cat" in the ''Star Trek'' episode "Assignment: Earth" (a role actually played by April Tatro<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pascale |first=Anthony |title='Star Trek' Mystery Solved – Isis Actress From "Assignment: Earth" Identified |url=https://trekmovie.com/2019/03/12/star-trek-mystery-solved-isis-actress-from-assignment-earth-identified/ |access-date=2019-03-12 |website=TrekMovie.com |language=en-US}}</ref>). Vetri emphatically states she never appeared on ''Star Trek'', saying, "I was never in an episode of ''STAR TREK''. I know that people think I was [...] I am not sure who she was. Look close enough and you can see that she has blue eyes and I, of course, have brown."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Reed |first=Michael Augustine |title=Interview with Victoria Vetri — "Sanna" |journal=LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS Magazine #41 |pages=71}}</ref>
===''Playboy''=== Using the name '''Angela Dorian''', Vetri was ''Playboy''{{'}}s Playmate of the Month for the September 1967 issue and subsequently was the 1968 Playmate of the Year. Vetri won $20,000 and a new car (an all pink 1968 AMC AMX) when she was selected Playmate of the Year.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-19 |title=1968 AMC Playmate of the Year AMX - Jay Leno's Garage |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQvxZbiiac |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/YsQvxZbiiac |archive-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live|access-date=2016-10-29 |publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> A nude photo of her (along with fellow playmates Leslie Bianchini, Reagan Wilson, and Cynthia Myers) was inserted into Apollo 12 Extra-vehicular activity astronaut cuff checklists by pranksters at NASA.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Playboy Playmates pranked into Apollo 12 mission checklists - Boing Boing |date=13 January 2007 |url=http://boingboing.net/2007/01/13/playboy-playmates-pr.html |access-date=2015-09-02 |publisher=boingboing.net}}</ref><ref name="nasa">{{Cite web |title=Image: a12.cdrcuf08.jpg, (630 × 432 px) |url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a12/a12.cdrcuf08.jpg |access-date=2015-09-02 |publisher=hq.nasa.gov |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924045802/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a12/a12.cdrcuf08.jpg |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Thinking it would give her the pick of acting roles, Vetri took on modelling for Playboy.<ref name="McF1" /> However, she said that posing actually hindered her career by limiting the roles she was offered. She felt she was typecast because of her beauty.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Svehla |first=Gary J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3M1SDwAAQBAJ&q=Victoria+Vetri%2C+playboy+led+to+movie+roles&pg=PT244 |title=Guilty Pleasures of the Horror Film |publisher=Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media |year=1996}}</ref>
Vetri posed topless for the April 1984 ''Playboy'' pictorial ''Playmates Forever! Part Two''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Angela Dorian |url=https://www.playboyplus.com/profile/angela-dorian |website=Playboy Plus}}</ref> In Tom Clancy's 2004 biography of Gen. Tony Zinni, USMC (Ret.), Zinni remarks on receiving a copy of the September 1967 ''Playboy'' centerfold from his advisers for his birthday, which he kept as a memento of his time in Vietnam.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Clancy |first1=Tom |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780425198926 |title=Battle Ready |last2=Zinni |first2=Tony |last3=Koltz |first3=Tony |date=2005-05-03 |publisher=Berkley |isbn=978-0425198926 |chapter=2 |url-access=registration}}</ref>
==Personal life== Vetri, aged 18, married Hugh Terry Whettam on April 7, 1963. Their son was born on September 8, 1963. They were divorced in 1966. She then married John Lee Hage on December 29, 1966, and they were divorced in 1967. Vetri married Heinz Gottfried Schwetz on November 13, 1978, and they were divorced on February 25, 1983. In 1986, she and Bruce Rathgeb were married;<ref name="glamour">{{Cite web |title=Victoria Vetri |url=http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/627/Victoria+Vetri |access-date=2020-04-20 |website=Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen}}</ref> they divorced in 2016, during Vetri’s incarceration for her attempted manslaughter of Rathgeb.
Vetri was charged with attempted murder after shooting husband Bruce Rathgeb from close range inside the Hollywood apartment they were sharing after an argument on Saturday, October 16, 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1968 Playmate Angela Dorian Shot Her Boyfriend? {{pipe}} TMZ.com |date=20 October 2010 |url=http://www.tmz.com/2010/10/19/1968-playboy-playmate-angela-dorian-attempted-murder-shooting-gun-charged/ |access-date=2015-09-02 |publisher=tmz.com}}</ref><ref name="EDECIO">{{Cite news |last=Martinez |first=Edecio |date=2010-10-20 |title=1968 Playboy Playmate Charged with Attempted Murder, Says Report |work=CBS NEWS |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/angela-dorian-picture-1968-playboy-playmate-charged-with-attempted-murder-says-report/}}</ref>
The Los Angeles Police Department's Hollywood Division arrested Vetri. She was jailed on US$1.53 million bail. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael D. Abzug refused to reduce it, pending trial. In January 2011, the judge also denied her attorney's request for a reduction of the charge of attempted murder. She was ordered to stand trial on that charge.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trial Ordered For Ex-Playmate In Husband's Shooting |date=January 21, 2011 |url=http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/01/21/trial-ordered-for-ex-playmate-in-husbands-shooting/ |access-date=2015-09-02 |website=losangeles.cbslocal.com}}</ref>
Between January and September 2011, the charge against Vetri was reduced to attempted voluntary manslaughter. She entered a plea of no contest. The judge sentenced her to nine years in state prison.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ex-Playmate gets 9 years for wounding husband {{pipe}} accessAtlanta |url=http://www.accessatlanta.com/atlanta-movies/ex-playmate-gets-9-1161950.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323151902/http://www.accessatlanta.com/atlanta-movies/ex-playmate-gets-9-1161950.html |archive-date=2012-03-23 |access-date=2015-09-02}}</ref> She was released on parole in April 2018, aged 73.<ref name="Moviemem">{{Cite web |last=Reid |first=John |title=Victoria Vetri - Star of When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth - An Interesting Life |url=https://www.moviemem.com/articles/autographs-1/victoria-vetri-star-of-when-dinosaurs-ruled-the-earth-an-interesting-life |website=News |date=19 September 2019 |publisher=Moviemem}} (registration required)</ref>
== Filmography == ===Film=== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |1962 |''{{sortname|The|Pigeon That Took Rome}}'' |Undetermined Role (uncredited) | |- |1963 |''Kings of the Sun'' |Ixzubin | |- |1967 |''Chuka'' |Helena Chavez | |- |1968 |''Rosemary's Baby'' |Terry Gionoffrio | |- |1970 |''When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth'' |Sanna | |- |1973 |''Group Marriage'' |Jan | |- |1973 |''Invasion of the Bee Girls'' |Julie Zorn | |}
===Television=== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- |1962 |''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'' |Member of wedding party (unconfirmed) |Season 11 Episode 1 "Rick and the Maid of Honor" |- |1962 |''Going My Way'' |Carmel (as Angela Dorian) |Season 1 Episode 4 "The Father" |- |1962 |''Cheyenne'' |White Bird (as Angela Dorian) |Season 7 Episode 11 "Johnny Brassbuttons" S7:E11 |- |1962 |''Hawaiian Eye'' |Kini (as Angela Dorian) |Season 4 Episode 9 "To See, Perchance to Dream" |- |1962 |''{{sortname|The|Gallant Men}}'' |Sister Catherine (as Angela Dorian) |Season 1 Episode 12 "A Place to Die |- |- |1963 |''{{sortname|The|Gallant Men}}'' |Teresa Borrelli (as Angela Dorian) |Season 1 Episode 19 "Next of Kin" |- |1964 |''Destry'' |Maiya (as Angela Dorian) |Season 1 Episode 9 "Ride to Rio Verde" |- |1964 |''The Magical World of Disney'' |Senorita Margarita (as Angela Dorian) |Season 11 Episode 5 "The Tenderfoot: Part 1" |- |1964 |''The Magical World of Disney'' |Senorita Margarita (as Angela Dorian) |Season 11 Episode 6 "The Tenderfoot: Part 2" |- |1964 |''{{sortname|The|Bill Dana Show}}'' |Maria (as Angela Dorian) |Season 2 Episode 6 "Jose on the Ledge or the Crystal Room" |- |1964 |''Wagon Train'' |Maria (as Angela Dorian) |Season 7 Episode 31 "The Zebedee Titus Story" |- |1965 |''Wagon Train'' |Marie (as Angela Dorian) |Season 8 Episode 26 "The Jarbo Pierce Story" |- |1965 |''McHale's Navy'' |Gina (as Angela Dorian) |Season 4 Episode 3 "Marriage, McHale Style" |- |1965 |''Bonanza'' |Essie (as Angela Dorian) |Season 7 Episode 6 "Devil on Her Shoulder" |- |1965 |''Perry Mason'' |Debbie Conrad (as Angela Dorian) |Season 9 Episode 14 "The Case of the Golden Girls" |- |1966 |''Run for Your Life'' |Carmen (as Angela Dorian) |Season 1 Episode 16 "Carnival Ends at Midnight" |- |1966 |''{{sortname|The|Man from U.N.C.L.E.}}'' |Charisma Highcloud (as Angela Dorian) |Season 2 Episode 30 "The Indian Affairs Affair" |- |1966 |''{{sortname|The|Big Valley}}'' |Teresa (as Angela Dorian) |Season 2 Episode 2 "Legend of a General: Part 1" |- |1966 |''{{sortname|The|Big Valley}}'' |Teresa (as Angela Dorian) |Season 2 Episode 3 "Legend of a General: Part 2" |- |1967 |''Hogan's Heroes'' |Carla (as Angela Dorian) |Season 3 Episode 1 "The Crittendon Plan" |- |1967 |''Death Valley Days'' |Sacagawea (as Angela Dorian) |Season 16 Episode 5 "The Girl Who Walked the West" |- |1968 |''Batman'' |Florence of Arabia (as Angela Dorian) |Season 3 Episode 23 "I'll Be a Mummy's Uncle" |- |1969 |''{{Sortname|The|Courtship of Eddie's Father|The Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV series)}}'' |Dolly Daly |Season 1 Episode 1 "Mrs. Livingston, I Presume" |- |1969 |''{{sortname|The|Pigeon|The Pigeon (1969 film)}}'' |Barbara Hagen |TV Movie 1h 30m |- |1970 |''Land of the Giants'' |Lisa |Season 2 Episode 23 "The Marionettes" |- |1970 |''Daniel Boone'' |Susan Pepper |Season 6 Episode 22 "Noblesse Oblige" |- |1970 |''Night Chase'' |Beverly Dorn |TV Movie Not Rated 1h 35m |- |1970 |''Mission: Impossible'' |Eve Zembra |Season 5 Episode 12 "Squeeze Play" |- |1970 |''To Rome with Love'' |Christina |Season 2 Episode 14 "Doctor Andy" |- |1971 |''Incident In San Francisco'' |Ginger |TV Movie 1h 40m |- |1975 |''Lucas Tanner'' |Connie |Season 1 Episode 12 "Bonus Baby" |- |2022 |''Cursed Films'' |Self |Season 2 Episode 2 "Rosemary's Baby" |}
==See also== * List of people in Playboy 1960–1969
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * {{Cite news |date=January 26, 1969 |title=Hollywood Picks Playmate Angela |page=69 |work=The Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gazette}} * {{Cite news |date=August 10, 1969 |title=Miss Mooney Movie Stars Repeats Vows Following New Pattern |page=12E |work=Lima, Ohio News}} * {{Cite news |date=April 11, 1968 |title=Miss Dorian Makes Debut as Playmate |page=18 |work=Long Beach, California Independent}} * {{Cite news |date=April 28, 1968 |title=AMX To Playmate |page=81 |work=Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram}} * {{Cite news |date=March 7, 1971 |title=Southland Sunday |page=106 |work=Long Beach Press-Telegram}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0895407|name=Victoria Vetri}}
{{PMOYs}} {{playmates of 1967}}
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