# 3 Obscure Actress Deaths: Star Trek, Busby Berkeley and Soft Porn **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199 "2004-11-11T14:17:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/1 "2004-11-11T14:17:42Z")
From the Entertainment Insiders site: Silent screen and early talkie actress **Mae Madison** died at age 89. Ms. Madison was a favorite of director Busby Berkley. She appeared in most of his films in the 1930s. Ms. Madison said, “Buzz got to like me so I was never out of his pictures. He’d telephone me and say, “Mae, bring your swimsuit to the studios your gonna be my gal in this new picture.” You know the pictures where the girl jumps off the high board into the pool and swims through the legs of thirty girls and comes up smiling? I was that girl!” In addition to her work with Busby Berkley, Ms. Madison worked with John Barrymore in “The Mad Genius,” John Wayne in “The Big Stampede” and William Wellman in “So Big!” among others. Actress **Elizabeth Rogers** died of complications from a series of strokes and lung cancer. Ms. Rogers played Lt. Palmer on the original “Star Trek” TV series. She also played David Keith’s mother in Taylor Hackford’s “An Officer and a Gentleman.” She appeared in bit parts in “The Poseidon Adventure,” “The Towering Inferno” and “The Swarm.” Ms. Rogers’s other credits include “Something Evil,” “Grand Theft Auto,” “The Van,” “Mannix,” “Gunsmoke,” “The Little House on the Prairie,” “Bonanza” and “The Time Tunnel.” Actress **Rusty Allen** died at age 60 in Las Vegas. Rusty Allen starred in Herschel Gordon Lewis’s nudist camp exploitation film “Daughter of the Sun.” In addition to her starring role in “Daughter of the Sun,” Ms. Allen also appeared with Elvis in “Girl Happy.” She had a minor role as one of Linda Darnell’s prostitutes in the Rory Calhoun Western “Black Spurs.” Ms. Allen was also the star of the 1965 exploitation film “The Sexperts.” Ms. Allen’s real name was Terri Kay Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/2 "2004-11-11T14:20:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Ms. Rogers played Lt. Palmer on the original “Star Trek” TV series. Who’s LT Palmer? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/3 "2004-11-11T14:32:12Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > “You know the pictures where the girl jumps off the high board into the pool and swims through the legs of thirty girls and comes up smiling? I was that girl!” Smiling indeed – I remember her well! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/4 "2004-11-11T14:49:38Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > He’d telephone me and say, “Mae, bring your swimsuit to the studios your gonna be my gal in this new picture.” Obviously, Buzz was a good choreographer but not much at punctuation. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/5 "2004-11-11T15:38:01Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Who’s LT Palmer? According to IMDB she was Lt. Palmer in two episodes, \*The Doomsday Machine \* and _Way to Eden_. She was also the voice of the Companion in the episode _Metamorphosis_. I couldn’t find any pictures but a Star Trek site said she was the relief communications officer. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/6 "2004-11-11T17:18:37Z")
The _relief_ communications officer? Wow. That’s right up there with Crewman Number Six from _Galaxy Quest_. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/7 "2004-11-11T18:30:32Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > According to IMDB she was Lt. Palmer in two episodes, \*The Doomsday Machine \* and _Way to Eden_. She was also the voice of the Companion in the episode _Metamorphosis_. I couldn’t find any pictures but a Star Trek site said she was the relief communications officer. Here… [http://fff.fathom.org/pages/whome/25576.gif](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/whome/25576.gif) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/8 "2004-11-11T18:40:00Z")
> [@Who\_me?](#): > > Here… > > [http://fff.fathom.org/pages/whome/25576.gif](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/whome/25576.gif) Nice hair! ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/9 "2004-11-11T19:21:28Z")
Wow, even Z-list celebrity deaths come in threes. Except when they don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/10 "2004-11-11T22:11:42Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Nice hair! It’s her auxiliary subspace antenna. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/11 "2004-11-12T00:47:10Z")
[Here’s another picture](http://www.sixtiescity.com/startrek/LOST/palmer1.jpg) from the freakily thorough [Ladies of Star Trek](http://www.sixtiescity.com/startrek/LOST/Lost.htm) page. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/12 "2004-11-12T00:50:05Z")
What does it say about me that I sort of remember seeing her on the show? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3-obscure-actress-deaths-star-trek-busby-berkeley-and-soft-porn/274199/13 "2004-11-12T02:21:37Z")
Hehe, I knew someone would find some pics. No need for further research. > [@Cervaise](#): > > What does it say about me that I sort of remember seeing her on the show? Whatever it is it’s the same for me, now that I’ve seen her pic I seem to remember seeing her, too.