Celeste Yarnall

The only child of a Navy Commander, American actress Celeste Yarnell was given her first name because (as the actress told TV Guide in 1968) her mother thought she was "celestial." Cashing in early on her cool-blonde beauty, Yarnell was the last winner of the Miss Rheingold crown (the contest was sponsored by a New York-based brewery), a fashion model, and a bit actress in the years before she met her future husband, Sheldon Silverstein, at a Hollywood party. Silverstein became her manager and schemed to turn his new client into the next Raquel Welch by squiring her around at the Cannes Film Festival. The result was a slew of magazine cover appearances and the starring role in a British-Spanish "nudie" jungle movie titled Eve (1968), which showed Yarnell's physical attributes, if not her acting skills, to good advantage. She later appeared in Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) opposite Elvis Presley, but the bulk of Yarnell's work in the late '60s was on TV shows like It Takes a Thief, Land of the Giants, and Star Trek. Yarnell never truly got past the "This Year's Blonde" stage, and by the '70s was being featured in blood-spattered horror pictures and Philippine-made adventure quickies. Like many former starlets, Celeste Yarnell left the business for the more financially rewarding -- and less exploitative -- world of real estate.

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Femme	Producer	—	2013
No Score Yet	Shrink Rap	Gloria	—	2003
No Score Yet	Drive-in Movie Memories	Actor	—	2002
25%	Born Yesterday	Mrs. Hedges	—	1993
No Score Yet	Midnight Kiss	Sheila	—	1993
No Score Yet	Ambition	Beverly Hills Shopper	—	1991
No Score Yet	Driving Me Crazy	Volvo Boss	—	1991
0%	Funny About Love	Delta Gamma	—	1990
23%	Fatal Beauty	Laura	—	1987
40%	The Mechanic	The Mark's Girl	—	1972
67%	The Velvet Vampire	Diane	—	1971
No Score Yet	Beast of Blood	Myra Russell	—	1971
93%	Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice	Susan	—	1969
No Score Yet	Live a Little, Love a Little	Ellen	—	1968
No Score Yet	Around the World Under the Sea	Secretary	—	1966
14%	A New Kind of Love	(uncredited)	—	1963
85%	The Nutty Professor	College Student	—	1963

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
No Score Yet	Columbo 1968-2003	Gloria	1971
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Kate Kelly	1968
No Score Yet	Hogan's Heroes 1965-1971	Wilhemina Nanny	1968
No Score Yet	It Takes a Thief 1968-1970	Ilsa	1968
80%	Star Trek 1966-1969	Martha	1967
No Score Yet	Bewitched 1964-1972	Student Nurse	1966
100%	The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 1964-1968	Andrea	1966 1965

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