Arlene Martel The Twilight Zone Autographed Signed 8x10 Photo #1 COA DECEASED

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Arlene Martel...Actress..."Nurse in Morgue" from "The Twilight Zone" Autographed 8x10 Photo w/ COA...WHITE
Great looking 8x10 photo autographed by Arlene Martel as "Nurse in Morgue".
Arlene Martel, actress who portrayed a "Nurse in Morgue" during "Twenty Two"...an episode of the classic 1959-63 television series, "The Twilight Zone", signed this 8x10 black and white photo with a blue Sharpie.
This is a classic autographed photo from a classic television series.  Whether you are an Arlene Martel fan and/or a "Twilight Zone" fan, this is one autographed photo that should be in your own personal collection.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
Arlene Martel
(April 14, 1936 – August 12, 2014), born
Arline Greta Sax
, was an American actress, writer, and acting coach. Prior to 1964, she was frequently billed as Arline Sax, Arlene Sax or Tasha Martel.
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Career
In 1962, Martel made her first of two appearances on
Perry Mason
, as Fiona Cregan in "The Case of the Absent Artist". Later, she guest starred as Sandra Dunkel in "The Case of the Dead Ringer" (1966) when
Raymond Burr
played a dual role, that of Mason and as the actual murderer, Grimes. Martel appeared in the
Star Trek
episode "
Amok Time
" (1967) as T'Pring and the original
The Outer Limits
episode "
Demon with a Glass Hand
" (1964).
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Martel played the princess Sarafina on
Have Gun – Will Travel
, the evil witch Malvina on
Bewitched
, the
French Underground
contact Tiger in five episodes of
Hogan's Heroes
, a female cosmonaut on
I Dream of Jeannie
, a Hungarian immigrant Magda on
The Fugitive
episode "The Blessings of Liberty" (1966), and, memorably, as the nurse who repeatedly utters the sinister phrase "Room for one more, Honey!" at the entrance to a hospital morgue and as the stewardess at the door of a doomed airplane in the
Twilight Zone
episode "
Twenty-Two
". She also appeared in the season-one episode of
The Twilight Zone
"
What You Need
".
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Martel was billed (as Arline Sax) as a featured actress in the episode of
Route 66
called "The Newborn", in which she gives birth. She also made guest appearances on
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
,
The Untouchables
,
Mission: Impossible
(season 4, episode 20, 1970), appeared as Asastia in
Here Come the Brides
(1970, episode "To The Victor"),
The Wild Wild West
,
Battlestar Galactica
, the 1968 movie
Angels from Hell
, two appearances on
The Monkees
, and the adult comedy film
Chatterbox
(1977). She played Interpol agent Violette in
The Six Million Dollar Man
episode "The Last Fourth of July" (season 1, episode 13, 1974).
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Martel appeared as a featured actress in the
Gunsmoke
episode titled "The Squaw" (1975). Martel also appeared multiple times on
Hogan's Heroes
(1965 - 1971) playing an Underground agent named "Tiger". In 1974, Martel was billed as "Tasha Martelle", playing secretary "Marty Bach" (eventual mistaken murder victim) in an episode of
The Rockford Files_(season_4)
, Episode 2, titled "Trouble in Chapter 17".
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Martel received top billing when she starred as the commandant in charge of the Russian road crew in
Zoltan, Hound of Dracula
(1978), although it was only a
bit part
lasting less than five minutes of the 97 minute movie. She also received credit in a font so large that it was almost twice as large as that used for
Reggie Nalder
or
Michael Pataki
, the leads who occupied most of the screen throughout the movie. She appeared in the
Star Trek
webisode "
Of Gods and Men
" in the final scene as a Vulcan priestess initiating a marriage ceremony between
Uhura
and Vulcan native
Stonn
(a character from the episode "Amok Time", played by original actor
Lawrence Montaigne
).
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Martel played Gloria, mistress of murder victim Tony Goodland (
Bradford Dillman
), in the
Columbo
episode "The Greenhouse Jungle" (1972).
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Martel semi-retired from acting in the mid 1980s, but continued to work sporadically in showbiz after that. She appeared in several episodes of TV and in some unreleased TV pilots in the early 2000s. She stated in interviews that even in her early career, she got most of her work via word of mouth and not through talent agents. In her later years, she often remarked, "I don't have a good agent who will get me the plum roles."
Before her death, Martel was one of the narrators for the 2015 documentary film
Unity
, which was released on August 12.
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Personal life
Martel attended the (then) Performing Arts High School in New York, on which the movie "Fame" was based, graduating in 1953. She later studied method acting and was a member of
The Actors Studio
. She remained friends with
Sidney Lumet
and
Anthony Quinn
throughout their lifetimes.
Martel lived on the west side of Los Angeles when she first moved there, and for a time lived on Martel Ave. in West Hollywood. She appropriated the street name, and became known as Arlene Martel. During her third marriage, she became known off-screen as Tasha Martel Schoen.
Martel married and divorced three times. Her first marriage was to Robert Palmer. Her second marriage was to actor
Jerry Douglas
. Her third was to Matthew Schoen. She had three children: Adam Palmer, Avra Douglas, and journalist and designer Jod Kaftan.
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She had three grandchildren - Shane Palmer (Adam), Molly Rose Brutsman (Avra), and Dashiell Kaftan (Jod). Shane died in 2010 at the age of 20.
In her later years, Martel wrote a screenplay, "Whisper Into My Good Ear", based upon the one-act play of the same title by
William Hanley
. She had also begun work on a second screenplay, "Mrs. Dally Has a Lover," also by Hanley. Unfortunately, neither was produced, although
Edward James Olmos
was slated to direct "Whisper Into My Good Ear."
Maximilian Schell
and
Max Von Sydow
were slated to play the leads.
Anthony Quinn
was her original choice to play one of the leads and was learning the lines shortly before his death.
Martel dated
James Dean
and
Cary Grant
.
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She appeared in the
Robert Altman
film "The James Dean Story" (1957) and did many interviews in the years following his death for such networks as the BBC.
She was a regular at Star Trek Conventions worldwide from 1972 to 2014.
In 2010, Martel and Jeff Minniti self-published a book called "Mixed Messages", which was in fact an extensive collection of emails exchanged between them. Minniti was a fan of Martel's who contacted her some years before her death and they struck up a friendship. Martel had written her autobiography several years before her death, but it has not yet been published.
Death
On August 12, 2014, Martel died from complications of a heart attack at a hospital in
Santa Monica, California
. She had suffered breast cancer in her later years, although this was reportedly not the cause of her death. She lived in Santa Monica for many years. She is survived by her children and two of her three grandchildren.
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The word, "MCVIKES" will not appear on your photo.  This autographed photo was placed inside a plastic page, the label was placed on top of the plastic page and this photo was then scanned.  If you buy it, you will like it.
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