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Elaine Giftos is a Actor American born on 24 january 1945 at Pittsfield (USA)
Elaine Giftos (born January 24, 1945, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American actress.
Trained by George Balanchine as a member of the New York City Ballet, Giftos performed on the Broadway stage before moving to California to pursue a career in movies and television.
Her first television appearance was in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie ("Jeannie the Matchmaker") as a dating service clerk named Laverne Sadelko who sets herself up with Roger Healy. Other shows she appeared in were Bonanza, The Interns, Ironside, Adam-12, The Streets of San Francisco, Love, American Style, The Partridge Family (in a recurring role), Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Bob Newhart Show, The Six Million Dollar Man, Otherworld (TV series), Barney Miller, Three's Company, Hawaii Five-O, Quincy, M.E., Knight Rider, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Tales of the Unexpected, the cult classic War of the Worlds, Ally McBeal, Mars and Beyond, and Family Law.
Her movie credits include roles in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), The Student Nurses (1970), Gas-s-s-s (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), Paternity (1981, starring Burt Reynolds), Angel (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."
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Elaine Giftos (born January 24, 1945, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American actress.
Trained by George Balanchine as a member of the New York City Ballet, Giftos performed on the Broadway stage before moving to California to pursue a career in movies and television.
Her first television appearance was in an episode of I Dream of Jeannie ("Jeannie the Matchmaker") as a dating service clerk named Laverne Sadelko who sets herself up with Roger Healy. Other shows she appeared in were Bonanza, The Interns, Ironside, Adam-12, The Streets of San Francisco, Love, American Style, The Partridge Family (in a recurring role), Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Bob Newhart Show, The Six Million Dollar Man, Otherworld (TV series), Barney Miller, Three's Company, Hawaii Five-O, Quincy, M.E., Knight Rider, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote, Tales of the Unexpected, the cult classic War of the Worlds, Ally McBeal, Mars and Beyond, and Family Law.
Her movie credits include roles in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), The Student Nurses (1970), Gas-s-s-s (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), Paternity (1981, starring Burt Reynolds), Angel (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."
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Angel (1984)
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Donna Wilkes, Cliff Gorman, Rory Calhoun, John Diehl, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn
Rating58%
Fifteen-year-old honor student Molly Stewart (Donna Wilkes) attends her private prep school in the Los Angeles area by day. However, at night, she transforms to Angel: the leather mini-skirted, high-heeled street prostitute working Hollywood Boulevard. Some members of her street family are the aging movie cowboy Kit Carson (Rory Calhoun), street performer Yoyo Charlie (Steven M. Porter), transvestite Mae (Dick Shawn), and fellow hookers Crystal (Donna McDaniel) and Lana (Graem McGavin).
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Barbara Eden, Joseph Mascolo, Joan Hackett, Richard Basehart, Louise Latham, Elaine Giftos
Roles Arlene
Rating62%
The Wrestler (1974)
, 1h45Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films
Actors Edward Asnere, Elaine Giftos, Harold Sakata, H.B. Haggerty, Ken Patera
Roles Debbie
Rating52%
Professional wrestling promoter Frank Bass (Ed Asner) has to deal with the pressures of running a professional wrestling promotion, facing the pressures of constantly finding new wrestlers to pull in the crowds, keeping the wrestlers he has under contract under control and especially dealing with the fact that the top man, the champion of "the League" Mike Bullard (Verne Gagne is getting old and there is pressure to replace him with a younger wrestler. One such possible replacement is the latest challenger Billy Taylor (Billy Robinson). At one point Bass meets with a number of other wrestling promoters (played by real life wrestling promoters from the National Wrestling Alliance, including Vincent J. McMahon) to possibly create a "Super Bowl of Wrestling." Facing pressure Frank Bass decides to back Bullard as he faces the challenger Billy Taylor in the climax of the movie.
, 1h27Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Anthology film
Themes Films about animals, Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, John Carradine, Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds, Lou Jacobi
Roles Mrs. Ross
Rating66%
Des aphrodisiaques permettent à un fou du roi (Woody Allen) de trouver la clé qui lui ouvrira les portes du cœur de la reine (Lynn Redgrave), avant de s'apercevoir que la clé de sa ceinture de chasteté lui serait tout de même plus utile.
, 2h9Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland, Bob Newhart, Jack Nicholson
Rating64%
At the behest of her ultra-conservative fiancé Warren, scatterbrained five-pack-a-day chain smoker and clairvoyant Daisy Gamble attends a class taught by psychiatrist Marc Chabot for help in kicking her habit. While undergoing hypnosis, it is discovered she is the reincarnation of Lady Melinda Winifred Waine Tentrees, a seductive 18th century coquette who was born the illegitimate daughter of a kitchen maid. She acquired the paternity records of the children housed in the orphanage where her mother worked and used the information to blackmail their wealthy fathers. She eventually married nobleman Robert Tentrees during the period of the English Regency, then was tried for espionage and treason after he abandoned her.
The Student Nurses (1970)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Elaine Giftos, Karen Carlson, Barbara Leigh, Reni Santoni, Richard Rust, Darrell Larson
Roles Sharon
Rating53%
Four young women all share a house together as they study to be nurses. Phred falls for a sexy doctor, Jim, despite accidentally sleeping with Jim's roommate. Free-spirited Priscilla, who doesn't wear a bra, has an affair with a drug-selling biker who gets her pregnant and leaves her, causing her to seek an abortion. Sharon forms a relationship with a terminally ill patient. Lynn sets up a free clinic with a Hispanic revolutionary, Victor Charlie.
, 1h19Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Comic science fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Road movies, Disaster films
Actors Elaine Giftos, Bud Cort, George Armitage, Talia Shire, Ben Vereen, Cindy Williams
Roles Cilla
Rating42%
In Dallas, at the Southern Methodist University, news comes in about a gas which has escaped from a military facility. It starts killing everyone over 25.