Celeste Yarnall

Here is a lounge song, chosen to enhance the beauty of glamorous cult actress Celeste Yarnall.
Celeste Yarnall (born in 1944) is an actress from Long Beach, California who played Martha Landon in the original Star Trek episode The apple. Her other television credits include appearances on Bewitched, The man from U.N.C.L.E., Bonanza, The wild wild West, Hogan's heroes, Land of the giants, and Melrose Place. She also had a role in 1971's Columbo: Ransom for a dead man. Yarnall's first film credits include A new kind of love in 1963 (with Paul Newman), Under the yum yum tree in 1963 (with Jack Lemmon), the 1963 comedy The nutty professor, in which she played a college student. In 1968, she starred in the cult horror movie The face of Eve (with Christopher Lee). She followed this with roles in the Elvis Presley film Live a little, love a little in 1968, the Academy Award-nominated comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice in 1969 and The velvet vampire in 1971. In 1972, Yarnall had a role in the Charles Bronson action film The mechanic. And in 1973, she starred in the film Scorpio (with Alain Delon). More recent film credits include 1987's Fatal beauty, 1990's Funny about love (directed by Leonard Nimoy), and 1993's Born yesterday. Among her other distinctions, Yarnall was also the last woman to be elected in 1964 (at the age of 19) as an original Miss Rheingold, the winner of an annual beauty contest voted on by buyers of New York-based Rheingold beer (a contest that had been run since 1942). She was named the Foreign Press' Most Photogenic Beauty of the Year at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968. She was also the National Association of Theater Owners Most Promising New Star of 1968. But, apart from her initial career as model, spokesperson and actress, Celeste has also managed several talented screenwriters, segued into the commercial real estate business, become a championship Tonkinese cat breeder, run her own successful company, hosted a radio show, produced a "How to" video and regularly appears as a speaker/lecturer. At a time when many people would be thinking of an easier life, Celeste studied for and received her Ph. D. in nutrition in 1998 and servesd as adjunct professor of nutrition at the Pacific Western University. As one of the "swinging chicks of the 1960s", Celeste was not only interviewed by Tom Lisanti for his fascinating book, Fantasy femmes of sixties cinema, but an eye-catching photograph of her was also used for the front cover.

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Celeste Yarnall passed away on 7th October 2018. RIP