And then there were those TV guest appearances, ranging from Bob Denver’s The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Laramie, The Big Valley, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., McHale’s Navy, The Ghost & Mrs. Yvonne was pretty much everywhere at the time, co-starring with Elvis Presley in films like It Happened at the World’s Fair and Kissin’ Cousins, the James Coburn spy film In Like Flint and the sci-fi cult film Mars Needs Women. Please scroll down for much more on Yvonne Craigīe sure to check out and subscribe to our Classic TV & Film Podcast for interviews with your favorite stars! She did two films with Elvis and continued to do more general TV.”
I don’t know how many different parts she played on Dobie Gillis, but they liked her so much they kept bringing her back as different characters. She was very successful in them and worked consistently in a way, by today’s standards she was probably making a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year. There were a few comedies thrown in, but she was usually the 16 to 18-year-old girl who inherits some money, or the sexy 19-year-old who’s having an affair with a married man.
And more often than not, what she was playing in were dramas.
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Pop culture historian, performer and author of such books as Ella: A Biography of the Legendary Ella Fitzgeerald and The Lucy Book Geoffrey Mark, offers, “Yvonne played a very successful series of ingénues, both sweet and wicked in the late 1950s and early 1960s on television in things like Perry Mason, where she really got to show her acting chops. Meet Every Actress Who Has Played Reporter - and Superman's Girlfriend - Lois Lane
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