{"id":3783,"date":"2016-07-06T11:37:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2016-07-06T11:37:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:37:40","slug":"happy-birthday-ahna-capri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/06\/happy-birthday-ahna-capri\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY AHNA CAPRI!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ahna.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3784\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3784\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ahna.jpg\" alt=\"ahna\" width=\"220\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a>The late Hungarian blonde Ahna Capri began modeling as a child, which led to\u00a0TV commercials and then bits in TV and movies. Warner Bros. signed her to a contract in 1959 and promptly re-christened her Anna Capri after the Isle.\u00a0After appearing in a number of Warner Bros. produced television series (including <em>Cheyenne<\/em>, <em>Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, Bronco<\/em>, etc.) Capri landed the role of Mary Rose, the sixteen year old adoptive daughter of Andrew Duggan and Peggy McCay in the short-lived situation comedy <em>Room for One More <\/em>in 1962.\u00a0 She was voted a Hollywood Deb Star that same year,\u00a0but this baby-faced ingenue (she resembled a more alluring and sexy Sandra Dee) yearned to be\u00a0the femme fatale.\u00a0After playing the precocious good girl in <em>Kisses for My<\/em> <em>President<\/em> (1964) and then a vain sexpot in\u00a0<em>The Girls on the Beach<\/em> (1965), Anna Capri got her wish when she was cast as the bad girl in \u201cThe Bridge of Lions Affair\u201d on <em>The Man from U.N.C.L.E<\/em>.\u00a0 This two-part episode was also edited into the feature <em>One of Our Spies Is Missing<\/em> (1966) and rushed into theaters. For the rest of the decade, Capri concentrated on television making guest star turns playing various parts on such popular series as <em>I Spy, The Wild Wild West, Run for Your Life, The Invaders, The Name of the Game<\/em>, etc.<\/p>\n<p>In the early seventies, Capri returned to the big screen and was billed as Ahna Capri. She remarked to <em>The Hollywood<\/em> <em>Reporter<\/em> in 1969, \u201cToo many people pronounce \u2018Anna\u2019 with a flat \u2018a\u2019 and it comes out an ugly Aaaana. I want my name more musical sounding, with a broad \u2018a,\u2019 like Ahna, so I\u2019m spelling it that way.\u201d Using her new moniker, Capri co-starred with Strother Martin in the creepy horror film <em>Brotherhood of Satan<\/em> (1971). In the Bruce Lee classic <em>Enter the Dragon<\/em> (1973), a sort of combination spy, blaxpoitation and kung fu movie, Capri as the insatiable Tania physically stood out as she was the only Caucasian actress in the cast. The exploitation cult classic <em>The Specialist<\/em> (1975) gave Capri a starring role as an enticing assassin, however she retired from acting shortly thereafter. She tragically died in an auto accident in 2010. You can read more about Ahna Capri in my and Louis Paul&#8217;s book <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Film-Fatales-Espionage-Television-1963-1973\/dp\/0786411945\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1467762507&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=film+fatales\">Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films &amp; Television, 1962-1973<\/a><\/strong><\/em> soon to be out in soft cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Hungarian blonde Ahna Capri began modeling as a child, which led to\u00a0TV commercials and then bits in TV and movies. Warner Bros. signed her to a contract in 1959 and promptly re-christened her Anna Capri after the Isle.\u00a0After appearing in a number of Warner Bros. produced television series (including Cheyenne, Maverick, 77 Sunset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}