Anitra Ford

Anitra Ford is an actress and former model who started out modeling in the 1960s before moving into film. Born Anitra Joy Weinstein in California, she made her film debut in a small uncredited part in The Love Machine and went on to appear in The Big Bird Cage (1972) and Messiah of Evil (1973), the latter as the ill-fated Laura. She was seen as Dr. Susan Harris in Invasion of the Bee Girls and as Melissa Gaines in The Longest Yard (1974), and she achieved her greatest popularity as one of the beauties on The Price Is Right, the game show hosted by Bob Barker. Her television work included Starsky and Hutch, The Streets of San Francisco, Baretta, Mannix and The Odd Couple. She left acting in the mid 1970s and later worked in real estate, and she is a published poet, photographer and artist whose work has been shown in galleries in Santa Barbara, California.