# Celebrities who've been in (soft) porn.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074 "2006-06-25T12:52:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gitfiddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@gitfiddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gitfiddle)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/1 "2006-06-25T12:52:33Z")
The other night, I was flipping through the channels, and as usual on any given night in France there were about five or six soft porn movies on. However, that night, by chance, there was one with Penelope Cruz! I was shocked. I’ve always heard of actors and actresses who have been in porno’s, but I don’t know which one’s are true. Wasn’t Stalone in a film called _Italian Stallion_? Arnold posed nude. So what other actors/actresses did the porn route? Any? ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/2 "2006-06-25T13:01:34Z")
Well, ahem…Traci Lords… I mean I’ve heard from someone that she used to do porn. It could just be a rumor …but this stack of bootleg movies says it ain’t Oh baby. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/3 "2006-06-25T13:24:46Z")
Stallone’s film was originally called _Party at Kitty and Stud’s_ but with the success of the first Rocky movie it was re-released and retitled. Ron Jeremy has something of a non-porn acting carer, although I’d be willing to wager that few of his non-porn roles require much in the way of performance beyond “be recognizable as Ron Jeremy.” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/4 "2006-06-25T13:34:58Z")
Kato Kaelin has some, but I doubt that’s too shocking. Brian Heidik, who won the 5th Survivor, also appeared in softcore cable porn. By the way, that first link with Penelope Cruz is quite NSFW. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/5 "2006-06-25T13:49:14Z")
Ever seen **Shirley Temple** ’s “Baby Burlesques,” one baby step from kiddie porn? She plays “Madame Cradlebait” in [Kid ‘in’ Africa](http://imdb.com/title/tt0023089/), “Morelegs Sweettrick” in [Kid in Hollywood](http://imdb.com/title/tt0023090/), “Polly Tix” in [Polly Tix in Washington](http://imdb.com/title/tt0023348/) . . . ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/6 "2006-06-25T13:50:33Z")
Sarah Kozer, _Joe Millionaire_ runner-up, is aka Cindy Schubert, fetish model. Rhonda Shear, who used to have a show on USA cable called _Up All Night_, was also a fetish model back in the pre-internet days. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/7 "2006-06-25T14:07:16Z")
There was a pretty strong rumor, with some purported stills from a porn flick featuring Chuck Connors of _The Rifleman_ fame. He also played baseball for a while. Which is harder to accept? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/8 "2006-06-25T14:10:03Z")
Oh, by the way, the Marilyn Monroe and Joan Crawford porn rumors have been discredited . . . ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/9 "2006-06-25T14:17:35Z")
I’ve heard of one starring Shields and Yarnell, who later had a comedy/mime/dance show on TV in the Seventies. No record of it in IMDB, though. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/10 "2006-06-25T14:18:38Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Oh, by the way, the Marilyn Monroe and Joan Crawford porn rumors have been discredited . . . Hmm, you didn’t mention Hedy Lamarr … ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/11 "2006-06-25T14:37:02Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Hmm, you didn’t mention Hedy Lamarr … [Harvey Korman] That’s _Hedley_ [/Harvey Korman] ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/12 "2006-06-25T16:33:54Z")
Well, I guess you have to have a meaningful definition of “celebrity” for this to work. Is “Sarah Kozar” a celebrity? If so, there are a LOT of celebrities who’ve done soft porn and fetish modelling. Particularly, B-movie “scream queens” who do horror movies, often playing naked or near-naked damsels, show up in softcore and Internet porn as well. Michelle Bauer, for example, did a LOT of bondage modelling before becoming a scream queen. Same for scream queen Linnea Quigley. B-movie scream queen Julie Strain has done a LOT of softcore, and also some bondage modelling. In fact, there are a LOT of bondage models who’ve done softcore and B-movies, I suspect because they were very attractive women whom softcore producers, B-movie producers and porn site publishers found extremely appealing, but who didn’t want to do hardcore either for personal or professional reasons. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/13 "2006-06-25T17:58:57Z")
I don’t know if you’d call her a celebrity, but Kari Wuhrer basically made a career out of nothing bur direct to video movies that consist mostly of her tits. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/14 "2006-06-25T18:01:58Z")
David Duchovny did some of those “Rec Shoe Diaries” though I don’t know if they’re considered even soft-core porn. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/15 "2006-06-25T18:03:31Z")
That’s “Red Shoe Diaries” of course. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/16 "2006-06-25T18:06:35Z")
Didn’t Fran Drescher do a porn short with Seka back in the 70’s? ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/17 "2006-06-25T20:24:25Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > Didn’t Fran Drescher do a porn short with Seka back in the 70’s? [FDVoice]Aow Mistuh Sheffield![/FDVoice] Truly erotic! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![St\_Ides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/18 "2006-06-25T21:04:19Z")
> [@Larry Borgia](#): > > David Duchovny did some of those “Red Shoe Diaries” though I don’t know if they’re considered even soft-core porn. He hosted the show. Denise Richards (Tasha Yar of Star Trek: The Next Generation) was in a couple of them too. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/19 "2006-06-25T21:24:00Z")
> [@St\_Ides](#): > > He hosted the show. > > Denise Richards (Tasha Yar of Star Trek: The Next Generation) was in a couple of them too. I think you mean Denise Crosby… ---
**Author:** ![snorlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@snorlax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snorlax)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074/20 "2006-06-25T22:00:44Z")
Dana Plato’s sad spiral downhill towards suicide included at least one soft-core film, which in a bald attempt to cash in on her prior celebrity was actually called “[Different Strokes](http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0118979/)”. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-whove-been-in-soft-porn/362074.md?page=2)