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Yvonne Craig
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Actor Born: May 16, 1937 in Taylorville, IL Biography:American actress "Yvonne Craig" trained for a ballet career from age 10 onward. While in high school, Yvonne was accepted by "George Balanchine" for the School of American Ballet, but she chose instead to tour with the Ballet Russe. Stopping over in Los Angeles, Ms. Craig was approached by a producer asking if she'd like to be in movies. She turned him down, but was more responsive to Hollywood after she later broke her contract with the Ballet Russe. Yvonne's first film was "The Young Land" (1957), but it remained on the shelf for two years, thus "Eighteen and Anxious" (1957) was the moviegoers' first introduction to the actress. "The Young Land" earned Yvonne a contract with Columbia pictures, where because of her exotic looks and flowing black hair she was cast in teen-aged "femme fatale" roles, such as the seductress in "The Gene Krupa Story" (1960) (though quite thin, she was actually larger than... Full Biography
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