CELESTE YARNALL

Biography

Celeste Yarnall has led a multi-faceted career. She began as a model, spokesperson, and actress, fresh out of high school, and was discovered by Rick and Ozzie Nelson while walking past their offices at General Service Studios in Hollywood and appeared in an episode of Ozzie & Harriet in 1962. Jerry Lewis selected this young beauty personally casting her as one of the students in "The Nutty Professor." Paramount then cast her in a cameo role in "A New Kind Of Love," with Paul Newman. She also appeared with Jack Lemmon in "Under the Yum Yum Tree." In 1964, she became the last elected Miss Rheingold receiving 20,000,000 votes from her fans. She moved from Los Angeles to New York and traveled all over the Eastern Seaboard as the Rheingold Beer spokesperson making personal appearances, doing television and radio commercials, and print ads. Her career as a top print model and television commercial spokesperson skyrocketed.

Celeste returned to Los Angeles in 1965 to pursue her acting career and has numerous feature films to her credit, such as co-starring in "Live a Little, Love a Little" opposite Elvis Presley and playing the beautiful vampire, Diane, in "The Velvet Vampire" for Roger Corman. She starred in the cult favorite "Eve" in which she played Christopher Lee's long lost jungle goddess granddaughter. She starred in "The Beast of Blood" opposite John Ashley and soon became recognized as a popular "Scream Queen." Other notable film appearances include "Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice" and "Around The World Under The Sea" for Ivan Tors Productions. Celeste guest starred on many television shows, including "Star Trek" as Yeoman Martha Landon in "TheApple" (Chekov's love interest), "Bonanza", "Hogans Heroes,” "It takes a Thief," "Land of the Giants,” "Love American Style,” "The F.B.I.,” "Mannix,” and "Man from Uncle.” She also appeared in numerous other productions such as "Wild, Wild West,” "Bewitched,” and the "Columbo" pilot. Celeste was selected as a “Deb Star” at the Hollywood Stars of Tomorrow awards in 1967, was acclaimed at the Cannes Film Festival as the Foreign Press' “Most Photogenic Beauty of the Year,” and was also the National Association of Theatre Owners “Most Promising New Star” of 1968. Consequently, her lovely face was splashed on magazine covers and newspapers all over the world.

In 1970, Celeste's beautiful daughter, Camilla, was born. Celeste divorced her manager/husband and continued her acting career appearing in "Scorpio" and "The Mechanic.” However, she began to feel that, as a single mom, a career change might be in order. So, between 1973 and 1993, Celeste segued into the commercial real estate business and specialized in assisting mainly entertainment companies either lease or purchase their office headquarters. She became enormously successful eventually owning and operating her own firm, Celeste Yarnall & Associates. She continued to do some commercials, television (" Melrose Place ,” "Civil War,” “Knots Landing,” "Sisters"), and film roles such as "Driving Me Crazy,” "Midnight

Kiss,” the remake of "Born Yesterday" with Melanie Griffith, "Fatal Beauty" with Whoopie Goldberg, and "Funny About Love" directed by Leonard Nimoy.

On the business end of show biz, Celeste managed several talented screenwriters , including one of the writers of "On Deadly Ground" starring Steven Seagal. Having always loved and lived with cats and dogs, in 1993, Celeste embarked on another exciting challenge - to simultaneously write a holistic healthcare book for cats entitled Cat Care, Naturally - Celeste Yarnall's Complete Guide To Holistic Health Care For Cats for Charles E. Tuttle Publishing, a prestigious Boston based company, as well as breed, raise, and show ten generations of championship Tonkinese and Oriental Shorthair cats who are reared on an all natural diet and supplements and the principles outlined in her book . Her second book, Natural Dog Care, was released in Spring of '98 along with a paperback version of her cat book now entitled Natural Cat Care. See Celeste's website , celestialpets.com , for more information regarding her holistic healthcare regimen for cats and dogs. Also in 1998, Celeste earned a Ph.D. in nutrition from Pacific Western University where she serves as an adjunct professor of nutrition. Celeste had her own radio show entitled "Celestial Pets" for Renaissance Radio KFNX Phoenix and, in October of 1999, attended the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Associations annual conference (held in Kaua'i) where she was one of the guest lecturers. She was selected as the keynote speaker for the Learning Annex's Third Annual Pet Expo in San Diego March 11, 2000. Celeste consults on pet nutrition and alternative healing therapies for cats and dogs and has written articles for several pet and health publications such as Natural Pet and Body, Mind & Spirit magazines.

Celeste's books are endorsed by prestigious Zone author, Barry Sears, Ph.D. Dr. Sears provided an essential fatty acid formula for her books for cats and dogs. Celeste markets the formulas she developed with Dr. Sears under her Celestial Pets ® line of cat and dog supplements along with Celestial Cats ® and Celestial Dogs ® VitaMineral Plus Supplement and Enzyme Supplements designed by prestigious holistic veterinarian, Dr. Russell Swift, who also wrote the forward to both of Celeste's books. Along with her business partner, Imelda Casper, she distributes herbs, homeopathics, and state-of-the-art clinical nutrition supplements to both her cat and dog clients and their human friends, as all the supplements she recommends for people and their pets come from sources whose ingredients are graded for human consumption. She frequently lectures on alternative and complimentary medicine and teaches people how to make their own cat and dog food. She has even produced a "How To" video in which she demonstrates the preparation of her fresh, raw food diet. In 2002, Celeste and her cat, Mimosa, were featured on Animal Planet's “That's My Baby” show.

Celeste Yarnall bases her practice in Southern California but consults with clients from all over the world. Celeste's hobbies include practicing Tai Chi and playing the pedal harp under the guidance of renowned harpist, Toni Robinson-Bogart. She enjoys spending time with her mother, daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter. She travels extensively to speaking engagements, book signings, autograph shows and conventions and welcomes the opportunity to meet and chat in person. Celeste is featured on the cover of Fantasy Femmes of Sixty's Cinema and is one of the 20+ actresses interviewed by its author, Tom Lisanti. Celeste is also featured in Lisanti's second book, Film Fatales . For more information regarding her books, photos, videos, and pet products, and for placing orders, please call (818) 707-6331. You can also email Celeste at celestialpet@sbcglobal.net .