Charlene polite biography

Who was this pretty redhead with the congenial name, I wondered, and whatever became of her? She was born in Ohio, on June 30, , and attended Youngstown University in the mid-sixties. There she met and married the writer Frank Polite, who was probably one of her instructors. Frank Polite, who died in , became a poet of some renown and influence, especially in Ohio; of the many tributes to him that can be found on the internet, this is the best.

After graduating from Youngstown, Charlene Polite enjoyed some success in regional theater. She went to the Pittsburgh Playhouse on a post-grad scholarship and joined the American Conservatory Theater, a company formed by the controversial young Off-Broadway director William Ball.

Born in Ohio, Charlene graduated from Youngstown University, in the mids, where she married her first husband, poet Frank Polite.

Ball, a suicide in , also passed briefly through television: He directed a couple of episodes of The Defenders. Polite made her film debut in , in Bullitt ; she had already done some stage roles on the West Coast, and may have followed the ACT when Ball moved it from Pittsburgh to San Francisco in Like many actors, she is best known today for a single appearance on Star Trek.

Sparks fly between Captain Kirk and the sexy rebel leader played by Polite, while Mr. Spock explains his seven-year mating cycle to the cloud city princess Diana Ewing, another ingenue who had a busy career in the late sixties and early seventies and then disappeared completely. A Mod Squad in and then a Blue Knight in were her last jobs.

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In the late nineties, Polite became ill and moved back to Youngstown to be close to her ex-husband. She would stay with my father and step-mother. My father would creep into her room in the morning and wake her up with that line. Hello Khepri. Charlene was my cousin.