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.
In perhaps the movie's most spectacular sequence, a group of cowhands attempt to rope the prehistoric beast known as the Gwangi. The Warner Video DVD of The Valley of Gwangi features a sparkling new transfer of this Harryhausen favorite and includes a recently filmed featurette Return to the Valley, in which the animator recounts the making of the film and the special effects.