Elaine Giftos (born 1942/1943)
[ is a retired American model, actress, and dancer.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Giftos,][ ] she attended Pittsfield High School.
While working as a fashion model in New York, Giftos was selected by the Clairol
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company as Miss Ultra Smooth in 1964. In that role, she traveled around the United States promoting the company's soothing lotion for shaving women's legs. Her work as a photographer's model resulted in photographs of her being used in ''Ingenue'', '' Redbook'', and '' Seventeen'' magazines.[ ]
Trained by George Balanchine as a member of the New York City Ballet
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, Giftos performed on the Broadway
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stage in ''Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968'' and ''Pousse-Café'' before moving to California
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to pursue a career in movies and television.
Giftos' first television appearance was in an episode of '' I Dream of Jeannie'' ("Jeannie the Matchmaker") as a dating service
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clerk named Laverne Sadelko, who sets herself up with Roger Healy. Other shows in which she appeared were '' Bonanza''; ''My Three Sons
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''; '' The Interns''; '' Ironside''; '' Adam-12''; '' Streets of San Francisco''; ''The Paul Lynde Show
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''; '' Love, American Style''; ''The Partridge Family
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'' in a recurring role as Reuben Kinkcaid's girlfriend Bonnie Kleinschmidt; '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker''; ''The Bob Newhart Show
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''; ''The Six Million Dollar Man
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''; ''Otherworld
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''; ''Barney Miller
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''; ''Three's Company
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''; ''Hawaii Five-O
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''; ''Quincy, M.E.
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''; ''Knight Rider
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''; ''Magnum, P.I.
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''; '' Murder, She Wrote''; '' Tales of the Unexpected''; ''War of the Worlds
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''; '' Ally McBeal''; '' Mars and Beyond'' and ''Family Law
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''.On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
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'' (1970); ''The Student Nurses
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'' (1970);Gas-s-s-s
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'' (1970, as the female lead, Cilla); '' No Drums, No Bugles'' (1972); '' Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)'' (1972); '' The Wrestler'' (1974); ''Paternity
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'' (1981); ''Angel
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'' (1984); and ''The Trouble with Dick'' (1987).
Giftos was married to writer/producer Herbert Wright until his death in 2005.
Since 1989, Giftos Wright has provided '' feng shui'' consulting services under the name The Wright Way of Feng Shui. LinkedIn profile
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References
External links
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Official website
The Wright Way of Feng Shui Facebook page
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American film actresses
American television actresses
1945 births
Living people
People from Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Actresses from Massachusetts
American stage actresses
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American women