Marla Maples. Played on the varsity basketball team in high school. In 1983, was the first winner of the Miss Resaca Beach Poster Girl contest, and a runner-up in the Miss Georgia USA Pageant. Made her Broadway debut in The Will Rogers Follies in 1992. Was the coexecutive producer of the 2005 documentary on Native Americans, Whispers in the Wind.
The Valley of Gwangi. The Valley of Gwangi is a 1969 American western-fantasy film directed by Jim O'Connolly and written by William Bast.[1] It stars James Franciscus and, in their final film appearances, Richard Carlson and Gila Golan.
The Valley of Gwangi was the last dinosaur-themed film that Harryhausen animated, and he made much use of his experience in depicting extinct animals from his earlier films. Close to a year was spent on the special effects (there were more than 300 'Dynamation' cuts in the film, a record number for Harryhausen), with the roping of Gwangi being the most labour-intensive animated sequence.