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Susan Denberg (born Dietlinde Zechner; 2 August 1944) is a German-Austrian model and actress. Denberg has appeared on stage and in film, notably in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) and other roles in the 1960s.
Susan Denberg is a German-born actress who appeared in films like Frankenstein Created Woman and Star Trek. She was also a Playboy Playmate of the Month in 1966 and left show business in the 60s.
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Susan Denberg is the stage name for Dietlinde Zechner (born on 2 August 1944; age 68), a German-born Austrian chorus dancer and 1966 Playboy Playmate, who made a brief brush with an acting career in the late 1960s.
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Susan Denberg (born 2 August 1944; age 79) is a German-born Austrian former chorus dancer, model, and actress who played Magda Kovacs in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "Mudd's Women". She filmed her scenes between Monday 6 June 1966 and Friday 10 June 1966 at Desilu Stage 9 and Stage 10.
Denberg was born Dietlinde Zechner in Bad Polzin, Nazi Germany, which became part of Poland after the end of World War II. She subsequently moved with her family to Klagenfurt, Austria when she was one year old. She grew up in Klagenfurt and moved to London, England at the age of eighteen, where she worked as an au pair girl before becoming a chorus dancer for the group The Bluebells. She traveled with The Bluebells to Paris, France and Las Vegas, Nevada, where she met singer Tony Scotti at a party thrown by Elvis Presley. She and Scotti married in 1965 but broke up after only a few months, and officially divorced three years later.
She left The Bluebells to pursue an acting career and moved to Los Angeles, California. In 1965, Denberg landed a featured role as a German girl on 12 O'Clock High. Her fellow Original Series guest star Frank Overton was a regular on this series and Mark Russell appeared in the same episode. She also made a guest appearance in the sitcom The Wackiest Ship in the Army, alongside Rudy Solari.
The following year, Denberg made her feature film debut with a supporting role in An American Dream (1966). Star Trek regular George Takei and Original Series guest actors Richard Derr, Warren Stevens, Peter Marko, and Tony Young also had roles in this film, which was directed by Robert Gist. While working on this film, Warner Bros. held a contest to find Susan a new screen name, offering a $500 award to whoever came up with the best one, but all of the entries were ultimately rejected.
In early 1966, Denberg studied at an acting workshop at Desilu which led to her being cast in Star Trek. Two months after filming her role in "Mudd's Women", she was featured Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine's August 1966 issue. In her profile, Denberg stated that she had ambitions to become an actress. Denberg was later one of the finalists for the title of 1967's Playmate of the Year, though the title ultimately went to Lisa Baker. She occasionally performed striptease acts at celebrity parties, including one thrown by Frank Sinatra, which met with the host's disapproval.
Denberg's most famous acting role outside of Star Trek was in Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), opposite Peter Cushing. However, her voice in the film was dubbed as her Austrian accent was considered too strong.
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Frankenstein Created Woman is a 1967 British Hammer horror film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Susan Denberg. The screenplay was by Anthony Hinds (as John Elder). It is the fourth film in Hammer's Frankenstein series.
Susan Denberg. Actress: Frankenstein Created Woman. After becoming immersed in the 60s high life of drugs and sex, Denberg left show business and returned to Austria. News interviews at the time show a depressed Denberg in the company of her mother, at home in Klagenfurt.
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