1. Yvonne Craig was born in Taylorville, Illinois, the first of Maurice Melvin and Pauline Virginia Yvonne Craig's three children.
31 Facts About Yvonne Craig
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Yvonne Craig did not graduate high school due to the lack of "a single PE credit".
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Yvonne Craig explained the lack of credit, saying "The funny thing about the PE credit is, I was going to the Edith James School of Ballet, and she'd have recitals at the art museum, and [the PE teacher] would come see me dance my little legs off, and then I'd come in to PE class, wrapped up, and claim I'd sprained and couldn't play a sport".
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Yvonne Craig had enough credits to get into college and attended UCLA, but did not graduate.
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Yvonne Craig started studying ballet at the age of 10 at the Edith James School of Ballet in Dallas.
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Yvonne Craig was discovered there by the Russian ballerina Alexandra Danilova.
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In 1954 and at 17 years of age, Yvonne Craig joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as its youngest corps de ballet member.
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Yvonne Craig was a professional ballerina with the company for three years.
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Yvonne Craig left the ballet company in 1957 "over a disagreement on casting changes" and moved to Los Angeles in the hopes of continuing her dancing career.
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Yvonne Craig was paid US $750 a week to act in the film, versus the $94 a week she had earned in ballet.
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Yvonne Craig appeared with Elvis Presley in two films: It Happened at the World's Fair and Kissin' Cousins.
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Yvonne Craig starred in the low budget science fiction film Mars Needs Women with Tommy Kirk and appeared in In Like Flint as a Russian ballet dancer opposite James Coburn.
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Yvonne Craig appeared five times on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, portraying five separate girlfriends for the titular character between 1959 and 1962.
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In 1964, Yvonne Craig guest-starred as Carol, an underwater photographer, on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
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In 1965, Yvonne Craig appeared in The Big Valley and Kentucky Jones,.
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Yvonne Craig played a Navy nurse with exotic Arabian dance skills in an episode of McHale's Navy and in an episode of The Big Valley with Lee Majors and Barbara Stanwyck; both aired in 1965.
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Yvonne Craig played a main character as well did the vocals for part of the soundtrack for Ski Party with Frankie Avalon.
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Yvonne Craig was Natasha, the Russian ballerina, in the spy film parody In Like Flint starring James Coburn.
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Yvonne Craig got along great with Adam and myself and everybody else.
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Yvonne Craig was just a delightful person with a sparkling personality.
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In 1969 Yvonne Craig appeared on Star Trek as Marta, a green-skinned Orion woman in the episode "Whom Gods Destroy".
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Yvonne Craig related the problems in having to wear green body makeup from head to toe in the episode.
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In 1973 Yvonne Craig reprised her Batgirl role in a public service announcement promoting equal pay for women sponsored by the US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division.
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In 1973, Yvonne Craig appeared in a first-season episode of Kojak, and in 1977, she made a guest appearance in The Six Million Dollar Man.
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When her Hollywood career slowed in the 1980s, Yvonne Craig ventured into private business after tiring of the roles she was offered.
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In 1988, Yvonne Craig married Harvard educated lawyer, investor, and real estate developer Kenneth Charles Aldrich.
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Briefly a co-producer of industrial shows, Yvonne Craig began a new career as a real estate broker.
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Yvonne Craig was going to give away autographed photos, but a few of us talked her out of that by pointing out that other guests supported themselves by selling photos.
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Yvonne Craig published an autobiography called From Ballet to the Batcave and Beyond.
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Yvonne Craig died at age 78 at her home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, on August 17,2015, from breast cancer that had spread to her liver.
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Yvonne Craig was survived by her husband of 27 years Kenneth Aldrich.