SUSAN OLIVER
Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about SUSAN OLIVER!
Zero Hour Podcast 1973-12-24 (ep51) John Dehner and Susan Oliver – Fourth Of …: A special presentation of Zero Hour hosted by Rod Serling, staring John Dehner and Susan Oliver. I just found this episode last week!
Susan Oliver: Susan Oliver was the stage name of Charlotte Gercke (13 February 1932 – 10 May 1990; age 58), a New York native, who played Vina in the Star Trek: The Original Series first pilot episode “The Cage”. She filmed her scenes between Friday 4 December 1964 and Friday 18 December 1964 at Desilu Culver Stage 15, Stage 16, and on location at 40 Acres. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 1st ed., pp. 58-62)
The Green Girl (2014) – IMDb: Directed by George A. Pappy Jr.. With Susan Oliver, Lee Meriwether, David Hedison, Nancy Malone. A feature-length documentary about Star Trek’s iconic Green Girl, Susan Oliver: Prolific actress of the ’50s – ’80s, original member of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, record-setting female aviator; Tragically taken by cancer in 1990.
Susan Oliver Is Dead; Television Actress, 61
‘Star Trek’s original Green Girl the subject of Kickstarter documentary: At first mention, today’s pop-culture connoisseurs might not recognize the name Susan Oliver, the Peyton Place actress who was a guest-star staple on popular primetime…
“Wagon Train” The Maggie Hamilton Story (TV Episode 1960) – IMDb: Directed by Allen H. Miner. With Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Susan Oliver, Frank McGrath. When their daughter runs away from the wagon train, the Hamiltons hire Flint to bring her back. With renegades in the area, he soon discovers how spoiled Maggie really is and they still manage to make it back in one piece.
Susan Oliver – IMDb: Susan Oliver, Actress: Star Trek. A fascinating aura of mystery seemed to surround the characters portrayed by blue-eyed blonde actress Susan Oliver, whose trademark high cheekbones, rosebud lips and heart-shaped face kept audiences intrigued for nearly three decades. She left a fine legacy of work on stage, film and TV. Born Charlotte Gercke on February 13, 1932 (some sources …
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Susan Oliver (born Charlotte Gercke, February 13, 1932 – May 10, 1990) was an American actress, television director, and aviator . her father was a political reporter and journalist for the New York World . in Oliver did numerous television shows in 1957, and appeared on stage . she replaced Mary Ure as the female lead in the Broadway production of John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger . the play’s short run was in 1957, she was chosen for the title role in her first motion picture, The Green-Eyed Blonde . in mid-1958, Oliver began rehearsals for a co-starring role in Patate, her second Broadway on November 9, 1960, she was cast as the lead guest star in “the Cathy Eckhart Story” on Wagon Train . in 1961, she played Laurie Evans in episode “Incident of His Brother’s Keeper” her most challenging role during this time was as the ambitious wife of doomed country music legend Hank Williams (George Hamilton) in Your Cheatin’ Heart (1964) she also starred opposite Jerry Lewis in The Disorderly Orderly two years later, Oliver’s performance was reused in the first season, two-part episode “the menagerie” (1966) a still of her with green skin is frequently seen in the end credits of the TV series in 1970, she appeared as Carole Carson/Alice Barnes on the TV western “the men from Shiloh” she was a regular cast member of the TV soap opera Days of our Lives . in 1976, in 1977, she wrote and directed Cowboysan, her AFI DWW short film . in her last fully active years, she appeared in Magnum, P.I., two episodes of Murder, she Wrote the same day Buddy Holly died in an airplane crash, she avoided flying for the next year . she eventually underwent hypnosis to overcome her fear of flying . in 1966, while preparing for her own transatlantic flight, in 1967, piloting her own Aero Commander 200, she became the fourth woman to fly a single-engined aircraft solo across the Atlantic ocean . in 1968, she was contacted by learjet to set record flights for them the glider rating was issued to Oliver on July 21, 1972 . it was her last rating . her last aviation medical examination was in may 1976 . Macmillan. ISBN 9780025929203. 10.