{"id":3869,"date":"2016-09-02T02:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T02:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2016-09-02T02:46:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T02:46:04","slug":"happy-birthday-to-beachstar-trek-babe-venita-wolf-springtime-bride-bettina-brenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/02\/happy-birthday-to-beachstar-trek-babe-venita-wolf-springtime-bride-bettina-brenna\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BEACH\/STAR TREK BABE VENITA WOLF &#038; SPRINGTIME BRIDE BETTINA BRENNA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/AAVENITA.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3870\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3870\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/AAVENITA-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"AAVENITA\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>Blond and sexy, with the bluest of eyes, the late Venita Wolf was one of the prettiest actresses to grace the drive-in screens of America.\u00a0 The fact that Wolf, who resembled a cross between Carol Lynley and Diane McBain, appeared on screen in only one beach film, <em>Catalina Caper<\/em> (1967) was a real loss for girl watchers.\u00a0During the mid-sixties, Venita Wolf, like Andrea Dromm, first achieved fame in a series of TV commercials. \u00a0She was the sparkling hair model for Lady Clairol.\u00a0 Casting directors quickly took notice and the acting offers came rolling in. Film producers Bond Blackman and Jack Bartlett were savvy enough to sign the fetching blonde to co-star in the feature <em>Catalina Caper<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The movie featured\u00a0Venita as Tina a denizen of Catalina Island who finds herself attracted her brother\u2019s college classmate Don (Tommy Kirk). \u00a0The duo along with the rest of the beach crowd go scuba diving, dance on the shoe an don yachts, and get entwined with art smugglers.\u00a0The rest of Wolf\u2019s short acting career comprised roles on commercials and TV shows. She made her TV debut replacing Sharon Tate as Miss Murray, Mr. Drysdale\u2019s enticing receptionist, in a few episodes of <em>The Beverly Hillbillies<\/em>. \u00a0She made enough of an impression to be presented by Bob Hope as one of the \u201cStars of Tomorrow\u201d along with Susan Saint James, Chris Noel, and Eileen O\u2019Neill, among others on his comedy special in 1966.\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em> fans will remember Wolf as Yeoman Teresa Ross in the episode, \u201cThe Squire of Gothos.\u201d\u00a0 She along with Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and the others are held prisoners on a planetoid by a childish super being named Trelane played by William Campbell, who is fascinated with the violent history of human beings. \u00a0Shortly after\u00a0Venita then faded from the Hollywood scene by 1970.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Catalina Caper (1967) - Trailer\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dkPx6lNBhtI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/abettina.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3871\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3871\" src=\"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/abettina.jpg\" alt=\"abettina\" width=\"193\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former showgirl Bettina Brenna was a statuesque Glamazon who didn\u2019t amass many film or TV credits but she could not but help stand out due to her physical attributes. She is most remembered for\u00a0<em>Funny Girl <\/em>(1968) as one of the glamorous Springtime Brides she of the nasally voice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/PixjQd05nAs<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Venita in my book Drive-in Dream Girls and more on Bettina in my book Glamour Girls in Sixties Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blond and sexy, with the bluest of eyes, the late Venita Wolf was one of the prettiest actresses to grace the drive-in screens of America.\u00a0 The fact that Wolf, who resembled a cross between Carol Lynley and Diane McBain, appeared on screen in only one beach film, Catalina Caper (1967) was a real loss for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3869","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\/3869","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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}