Best known for her role in Faster Pussycat, kill, Kill!, but I remember her best from The Astro-Zombies. Her over-made-up face , her exotic style, and her formidable bust all made her memorable.She was 72
Aww, that’s sad. I only know her from Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! but I thought she had a unique star quality. Definitely one of those films where I was cheering her on despite the fact that she’s (sort of) the bad guy.
I only know of her from Faster Pussycat, but when I saw it on TCM a couple years ago they had a brief interview with her. She seemed like a really fun broad – just clear that she had a ball making movies and having dudes ogle her, but wasn’t hung up on past glories like some.
–Cliffy
I didn’t know until reading one of her obituaries that, like Bettie Page and Marylin Monroe, she’d modeled for Harold Lloyd’s nudies
(2-click rule: she’s in the thumbnail with the spider. Venus de Milo-level NSFW)
Wow. I just saw her on the rock documentary Let’s Spend the Night about rock groupies. She was describing how Elvis proposed to her and she turned him down because their marriage would ruin his career (since she was an exotic dancer). She seemed fascinating and was still quite attractive into older age. How sad that she’s gone now, but I bet she’s having fun in heaven with the King.
Here’s a photo of her safe for work, taken from Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
What’s interesting is some other softcore ladies also left us as I mentioned in this thread.