Celeste Yarnall

Celeste Yarnall was an American actress whose screen work was mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. A native of Long Beach, California, she got her start in television when Ozzie Nelson and Ricky Nelson spotted her and gave her a part on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet. She modeled and made commercials, and in 1964 she was the last Miss Rheingold. Her first film was The Nutty Professor in 1963, and a trip to the Cannes Film Festival led producer Harry Alan Towers to cast her as the central figure in Eve. She was known for playing Yeoman Martha Landon in a Star Trek episode, a role she revisited in the fan-made Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2006). Her films included Live a Little, Love a Little (1968), Beast of Blood (1970) and The Velvet Vampire (1971), where she played the titular vampire. In 1968 the National Association of Theatre Owners named her Most Promising New Star.