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One of the more irritating habits of posterity is its tendency to reduce perfectly accomplished people to a single role, a single costume, or a single photograph. The future appears especially guilty of this offence. Mention Yvonne Craig and most Americans today remember only Batgirl (and, at this point, they must be of a certain age to remember her at all, though it is an ageing country). Long before she ever swung a leg over the Batcycle or exchanged quips with television villains in Gotham City, however, Yvonne Craig had already established herself as one of the most striking and recognisable models and pin-up favourites in the US, as well as a dancer of genuine accomplishment and a steadily rising television personality.
Undeniably beautiful, certainly, but also projecting intelligence, vitality, and a faintly mischievous confidence that made audiences take notice, there was a real spark about this foxy lady, Yvonne Craig: an impression that she was fully aware of the absurdity of show business and was enjoying the spectacle nonetheless. As an actress, she moved effortlessly between dramatic and comedic material and demonstrated a perhaps surprising versatility. Westerns, adventures, light comedies, dramas: she did it all.
Her background as a trained dancer meant Craig possessed remarkable poise, athleticism, and bodily control. In practical terms, this meant she could perform demanding physical sequences while retaining an elegance that many performers would have sacrificed the moment things became strenuous; making her perfect, of course, for the role of television’s ultimate camp superheroine — and for so much more. All the hail the television goddess, Yvonne Craig.
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