Elaine Giftos
Elaine Giftos is an American retired model, dancer, and actress. She grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and attended Pittsfield High School. While working as a fashion model in New York, she was chosen by Clairol as Miss Ultra Smooth in 1964 to promote a shaving lotion, and her photos appeared in Ingenue, Redbook, and Seventeen magazines. Trained by George Balanchine as a member of the New York City Ballet, Giftos later performed on Broadway in New Faces of 1968 and Pousse-Café before moving to California to pursue movies and television.
Her first TV role was in I Dream of Jeannie. She appeared on many popular shows, including Bonanza, My Three Sons, The Interns, Ironside, Adam-12, Streets of San Francisco, The Paul Lynde Show, Love, American Style, and The Partridge Family as Bonnie Kleinschmidt. Her film credits include 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... (1972), The Wrestler (1974), Paternity (1981), Angel (1984), and The Trouble with Dick (1987).
Giftos was married to writer-producer Herbert Wright from 1973 until his death in 2005. Since 1989, she has worked as a feng shui consultant under the name The Wright Way of Feng Shui.
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