Grace Lee Whitney

Grace Lee Whitney

出生 : 1930-04-01, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

死亡 : 2015-05-01

略歴

Grace Lee Whitney (April 1, 1930 - May 1, 2015) was an American actress and singer, best known for her role as Janice Rand on the original Star Trek television series and subsequent Star Trek films. Born Mary Ann Chase, she was adopted by the Whitney family, who changed her name to Grace Elaine. She started her entertainment career as a "girl singer" on Detroit's WJR radio at the age of fourteen. After she left home, she began to call herself Lee Whitney, eventually becoming known as Grace Lee Whitney. In her late teens, she moved to Chicago where she opened in nightclubs for Billie Holiday and Buddy Rich, and toured with the Spike Jones and Fred Waring Bands. Whitney debuted on Broadway in Top Banana, playing Miss Holland. Following the successful run of the show, she joined the cast in Hollywood, where she recreated the role in the 1954 movie of the same name. In Los Angeles, Whitney auditioned for and was cast in the starring role of Lucy Brown in the national tour of The Threepenny Opera. Whitney made more than a hundred television appearances following her television dramatic debut in Cowboy G-Men in 1953; The Real McCoys, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, The Rifleman, 77 Sunset Strip, Bewitched, Batman, and The Untouchables. During the 1950s and early 1960s, Whitney was also on live television shows including You Bet Your Life, The Red Skelton Show, The Jimmy Durante Show and The Ernie Kovacs Show. Whitney was cast as a member of the all-female band in Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot. She shared several scenes with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Marilyn Monroe, including the famed "upper berth" sequence. She had uncredited roles in House of Wax, Top Banana, The Naked and the Dead, and Pocketful of Miracles. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry cast Whitney in the role of Yeoman Janice Rand, the personal assistant to Captain James T. Kirk, in 1966. Whitney appeared in eight of the first fifteen episodes, after which she was released from contract. She had claimed that, while still under contract, she was sexually assaulted by an executive associated with the series. Later, in a public interview, she stated that Leonard Nimoy had been her main source of support during that time. She went into more details about the assault in her book The Longest Trek, but refused to name the executive, saying in the book, "This is my story, not his." Whitney returned to the Star Trek franchise in the 1970s after DeForest Kelley saw Whitney on the unemployment line and told her that fans had been asking for her at fan conventions. Whitney reprised her role as Janice Rand, who had received a promotion to chief petty officer in Star Trek: The Motion Picture). She also appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, with another promotion, as Lieutenant Commander Janice Rand. Five years later, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the franchise, she returned in the 1996 Star Trek: Voyager episode "Flashback", along with George Takei. She also reprised her role in two internet Star Trek episodes. In the 1970s, she appeared in The Bold Ones, Cannon, and Hart to Hart. In 1998, she appeared in an episode of Diagnosis: Murder, which reunited her with her Star Trek colleagues George Takei, Walter Koenig and Majel Barrett.

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スター・トレックVI 未知の世界
Excelsior Communications Officer (Janice Rand)
23世紀。クリンゴン人のある資源衛星が事故により爆発し、同衛星では大気汚染が進み、あと何十年かで同惑星が壊滅する事実が判明する。惑星連邦は講和を申し入れてきたクリンゴン帝国の宰相ゴルコンに対し、カーク船長率いる宇宙船USSエンタープライズの護衛をつけるが、カークの部下スポックが講和を望む一方、かつて自分の息子をあるクリンゴン人に殺された過去があるカークは、講和という事態を受け入れるのに躊躇していた。
スター・トレックIV 故郷への長い道
Commander Rand
23世紀。カークらUSSエンタープライズの乗組員たちはスポックの故郷バルカン星で暮らすが、船を勝手に動かした責任を取る覚悟で地球に戻ろうと決心。同じころ地球に強力な電波を発信する異星の探査船が接近する。電波のせいで滅亡寸前になった地球だが、カークたちは探査船を送ったエイリアンの目的がザトウクジラだと気付く。エイリアンは太古から地球のザトウクジラと交信していたが、ザトウクジラは21世紀に絶滅していた。
スター・トレックIII ミスター・スポックを探せ!
Commander Janice Rand (Woman in Cafeteria)
USSエンタープライズのカーク船長に恨みを持つカーンのせいで、カークの仲間スポックは命を落とし、遺体はジェネシス装置によって生まれ変わった惑星ジェネシスに葬られた。実はスポックは死の間際、自己の魂(カトラ)を仲間のマッコイの脳に移していた。それに気付いたカークはマッコイらとジェネシスに向かう。惑星には先にカークの息子デビッドのチームが到着するが、地球を含む惑星連邦と敵対するクリンゴン人に襲われる。
The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
A 13-year-old genius goes to college and tries to cope not only with campus social life, but also with his professor.
スター・トレック
CPO Janice Rand
雲状の巨大な何かが銀河系を通って地球に向かって突き進んでくる。提督に昇進したカークだが、かつて自分が率いたUSSエンタープライズと乗組員たちを、あらためて率いるよう依頼される。カークはそこにかつての部下たちを召集するが、物体は地球まであとわずかという距離に接近。“何か”の中に“ヴィジャー”と名乗る謎の存在がいることを突き止めるが、“ヴィジャー”は自身を作り出した創造主“クリエイター”を捜していた。
Way Down Cellar
Velma
Three friends find a secret tunnel under the ruins of a church that leads them to the basement of a dilapidated house and, incidentally, a group of counterfeiters.
The Man from Galveston
Texas Rose
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.
あなただけ今晩は
Kiki
Nester Patou, a naive police officer, is transferred to the red light district in Paris and organizes a raid on a dodgy hotel running as a brothel. In doing so he inadvertently disrupts the corrupt system of the police and the pimps union, and even nets his station superior. Fired from his job, Nester goes to the local bar for a drink and befriends a pretty young lady named Irma la Douce. Upon realizing she is a prostitute, Nester invents a crazy scheme to keep her from seeing other men.
A Public Affair
Tracey Phillips
Expository internal affairs drama which brings to light the often unprincipled tactics used in negative "smear" campaigning, and its effects within the political arena.
Pocketful of Miracles
Queenie's Broad (uncredited)
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much a part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples -- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.
お熱いのがお好き
Rosella (uncredited)
禁酒法時代のシカゴ。失業中のミュージシャン、ジェリーとジョーは偶然、殺人現場を目撃してしまい、ギャングのボス、スパッツから命を狙われるはめに。やむなく2人は女性だけの楽団に女装してもぐりこみ、寝台列車でマイアミに向かう。魅力的なウクレレ奏者シュガーにすっかり惚れ込んだ彼らだが、ジョーは、マイアミで富豪に変身して彼女に再接近を図る。一方のジェリーは、初老の富豪オズグッド三世から求愛を受けてしまう。
Top Banana
Miss Holland (uncredited)
Jerry Biffle is the star of the Blendo Soap Program. He has been invited to participate in an autograph-signing party for his new book at an important department store. Jerry meets Sally Peters, one of the department store models, and makes her part of his TV troupe. As part of his campaign to court Sally, Jerry gets Cliff Lane, the tenor of his TV company, to sing to her over the phone. When Sally and Cliff meet, they fall in love, with Biffle ignorant of the complications.
The Texan Meets Calamity Jane
Cecelia Mullen
A western in which Calamity Jane's (Evelyn Ankers) rightful ownership of a gambling hall is challenged. She nearly loses the business to a shady crook, but Texas lawyer Ellison puts up a legal battle to help her stay in charge. After a sensational fight, the letters proving her right are discovered.
To the Journey - Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
self (archival)
The documentary explores the legacy of Star Trek: Voyager (1995).