Angela Dorian
Angela appeared as Florence of Arabia in episode # 117- Ill Be A Mummy's Uncle with Victor Buono as King Tut
Holy Playboy Centerfold !!
Angela was Playboy Playmate of the Month in September, 1967.
She became Playmate of the Year in May, 1968.
Angela Dorian or wait isn't that Victoria Vitri? Well both answers would be correct. She was born Victoria Vetri and was the daughter of Italian-born parents: her father was a restaurateur from Sicily and her mother a singer from Rome. She studied art at Los Angeles City College and began her movie career in 1963 with a role in "Kings of the Sun," an epic about a Mayan tribe's emigration from Mexico to Texas. Richard Basehart, Yul Brynner and George Chakiris starred in the film, and Victoria played a Mayan girl named Ixzubin.
Although she already had a budding acting career under her own name, Victoria Vetri, her agent suggested she assume the nom-de-Playmate "Angela Dorian" when she posed for Playboy. Allegedly, he was inspired by the headlines surrounding the shipwreck of the Italian ocean liner Andrea Dorian nearly a dozen years previously. After Batman in 1968 she went on to appear in Rosemary's Baby (1968), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), Group Marriage (1972) and the last credit I can find on her was in Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) as Julie Zorn .
From Playboy 1968 - Angela Dorian made September the issue to remember. So turned on were we by Angela that we needed no tie-breaking assistance from Playboy's readers (a write-in contest evoked in 1963, 1965 and 1967). Even so, our unanimous accolade only echoed the many unsolicited letters that rated TV actress Angela number one in the Playmate pantheon. "Quite a few of the letters were from guys stationed in Viet Nam," she told us. "I only wish I could visit them and thank each one personally. I may be too much of a pacifist to accept the reasons why they're fighting, but I'm too much of a woman not to want to help boost their morale."
Angela has had hardly an idle moment since her September unveiling. In addition to extracurricular endeavors (writing poetry, dancing, composing songs and doing pen sketches), she has recently helped her cinematic career by completing a featured role in Roman Polanski's suspense thriller Rosemary's Baby, starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes. It's the start of a seven year contract with Paramount Pictures, calling for two films a year. "It's nonexclusive," Angela is quick to state. "I want to be available whenever a good script comes along." She has also added to her two-dozen-plus small-screen appearances by playing Florence of Arabia, a bejeweled belly dancer who undulated on the set too late to save the now-sunk Batman series. "I'm glad I had the chance, though. It's not often a job is that much fun. We ad-libbed most of it and had a ball."
She indeed was an asset to that episode !
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