Vitina Marcus

Vitina Marcus (born March 1, 1937) is a retired American actress.

Career

Marcus was a student of Lee Strasberg's. She appeared in numerous television shows throughout the 1950s and '60s. She was sometimes billed as Dolores Vitina, as in the 1958 film Never Love a Stranger, starring John Drew Barrymore and Steve McQueen. She was in Irwin Allen's 1960 production of The Lost World, as well as Taras Bulba (1962) with Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner.

On television, she appeared in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, including the first-season episode "Turn Back the Clock" (in which producer Irwin Allen reused some of her footage from The Lost World) and the second-season episode "Return of the Phantom".

She appeared in two episodes of Lost in Space as the Green Lady (Athena), an admirer of stowaway Dr. Zachary Smith's, who endangers the Jupiter II; Have Gun – Will Travel as Della White Cloud, an Apache princess; and in episodes 24 and 26 of The Time Tunnel, "Chase through Time" and "Attack of the Barbarians". Marcus was in an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "My Friend: The Gorilla Affair", in 1966. She guest-starred in the TV series Gunsmoke'''s episodes "The Squaw" as Natacea (1961) and "Old Comrade" as Missy (1962). In 1962, she portrayed Wahkshum in the episode "The Peddler" on CBS' Rawhide''.

Personal life Marcus gave birth to a daughter and a son, the daughter with Rory Calhoun. She left Hollywood in the late 1960s, and has resided in Las Vegas since the mid-1970s, earning her real estate license in 1986. She has been in real estate since then as Vitina Graham.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1958 Never Love a Stranger Frances Kane 1960 The Lost World Native Girl 1962 Taras Bulba Gypsy Princess 1964 Bedtime Story Pretty Girl Uncredited

Television