B Movie Babes: October 2016

Friday, October 28, 2016

#1 Caroline Munro *

* - author has her autograph

A stunning brunette from across the pond, Caroline Munro supplemented her limited thespian skills with incredible looks. She was a Bond babe and Hammer honey, and was in some classic sci-fi movies as well (including the priceless Starcrash). She has her own website, is very popular on the fan circuit, and seems to be beloved by all. And she still looks incredible!

Cheesy Pageant Titles: Evening Standard (London) Face of the Year Contest

Embarrassing Movies

Maniac
Howl of the Devil
Dracula Today
Slaughter High
Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter *
Flesh for the Beast

* - author has seen

Embarrassing Taglines

A galactic adventure beyond your wildest dreams!
The time: now. The place: Kings Road, Chelsea. The killer: Count Dracula.
There's horror in the halls... Lynching in the lunchroom... Murder in metal shop
The hit British gay comedy about cruising... in the afterlife!

Embarrassing Characters

Mystic Mary
Carla the Gypsy
Stella Star
Abbey Church

Unlikely Spouses & Boyfriends: Robert Plant, of Led Zeppelin

Interesting Tidbits

Went to a convent school, and was taught by nuns
Started as a model
Cut an EP (her backing band included Cream, as well as Steve Howe of Yes)
Was a game show hostess
Has appeared in music videos for Adam Ant and Meat Loaf
Is dyslexic
Has never appeared nude

Where can I learn more?

Ah, the '80s

<#2

Monday, October 24, 2016

#2 Barbara Bouchet

A German-American with a French name, Barbara Bouchet made an early mark as a Bond Girl (she actually played Miss Moneypenny, albeit in the dreadful Casino Royale). She later did one-off TV shows like the Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Star Trek, finally ending her career by heading back to Europe to make cheapo Italian horror movies and sex comedies. Like many European actresses, she was more than happy to get all nekkid.

Embarrassing Real Name: Barbel Goutscherola

Embarrassing Real Birthplace: Liberec, Czech Republic

Cheesy Pageant Titles

Miss China Beach
Miss Firecracker
Miss Perfect Gidget

Embarrassing Movies

Agent for H.A.R.M. *
Darkside Witches
Death Rage
Black Belly of the Tarantula
Duck in Orange Sauce
Don’t Torture a Duckling (I'm detecting a theme here)

* - author has seen

(That's Italian for "Don't Torture a Duckling")

Embarrassing Taglines

An explosion of sexual frenzy!
Six black witches are back and they’re hungry for vengeance
With needles dipped in deadly venom the victims are paralyzed – so they must lie awake and watch themselves die!

Embarrassing Characters

Astrid Porsche
Tippy Penfield
Narcissus Darling

Interesting Tidbits

First gig was on a local (San Francisco) teenage dance show
Her first 10 or so films were all major releases, featuring names such as Preminger, Huston, Wayne, Niven, Sellers, Bacall, Lemmon, Newman, and Mitchum (though Barbara was typically listed as "uncredited")
Was something of the Jane Fonda of Italy, publishing books and videotapes, and hosting a TV show, on aerobics
Son Alessandro is a chef on Italian TV
Is besties with Corinne Clery

Where can I learn more?

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Friday, October 14, 2016

#3 Edwige Fenech

This exotic brunette is half Italian and half Maltese, was born in Algeria, grew up in France, and later lived in Italy. She is also extremely attractive, and more than willing to drop her clothes at the slightest instigation. Her specialty was Italian sex comedies, but she also did her fair share of giallos.

Because she was much more popular in Continental Europe, I could find surprisingly little on her in English. I was, however, able to find these interesting additional facts courtesy of Google Translate:

The cinema is not far, and our friend began quietly in 1966 in a French comedy "Johnny Be Good", where she plays the utilities.
The shapely head and long teeth, it will not be long to settle permanently in Italy, where job opportunities abound.
Actress limited without being null, the former Lady Europe has indeed exceptional asset for photogenic, well-rounded shape and skin texture through wonderfully in the picture, which often stripped of its benefits for erotic models big screen.

Embarrassing Real Name: Edwige Sfenek

Embarrassing Real Birthplace: Bone, Algeria

Pageant Titles

Miss Mannequin de la Cote d'Azur
Miss France

Embarrassing Movies

Erotic Exploits of a Sexy Seducer
The Schoolteacher Goes to Boys High
A Policewoman on the Porno Squad
Strip Nude for Your Killer
All Kitties Go for Sweeties
Holy God, Here Comes the Passatorre!

Embarrassing Taglines

The killer slices without mercy!
They exist. They bear the mark of the devil inside them. They may be your neighbors. They may be your wife, husband, sweetheart. They may even be your children. Their time has come.
That amorous, explosive, provocative, lusty, voluptuous female is at it once more

Embarrassing Characters

Barbara Wimply
Samoa
Hong-Kong
Takimoto, the Japanese engineer

Interesting Tidbits

Has produced over 20-some mostly made-for-TV movies
Son Edwin is also a producer
Quentin Tarrentino named a character after her in Inglourious Basterds

Where can I learn more?

<#4 #2>

Friday, October 7, 2016

#4 Sylva Koscina

Born in the former Yugoslavia of a Greek father and a Polish mother, Sylva Koscina went on to live and do most of her work in Italy. Starting out in sword and sandal epics, she soon had screen credits in a number of genres, most of which involved her taking off her clothes. “Ultimately,” as IMDb nicely puts it, “her ornamental qualities rather exceeded her abilities as an actress.” Ah, but what “ornamental qualities” they were.

Embarrassing Real Birthplace: Split, Croatia

Cheesy Pageant Titles: Miss Di Tappa

Embarrassing Movies

Destination Fury
Vertigo for a Killer
Homo Eroticus
I See Naked
Monkey Money
Hercules' Pills
Are We Men or Corporals?

Embarrassing Taglines

Track him ... chase him ... unarm or undress him ... but never underestimate That Man in Istanbul
Love in a land of treachery and temptation!
When a pair of nuns get involved in jet-age business and jet-set romance, the fun is non-stop all the way!
Bigness unmatched! Spectacle undreamed!

Embarrassing Characters

She
Reluctant Girl
Odette Mercury
Favouille Grandblaise
Countess Rita-Engeneer Pedercini's Sister

Shortest Marriage: 4 years

Unlikely Spouses & Boyfriends

Jean-Paul Belmondo
Kirk Douglas
Paul Newman

Whiffs of Scandal

Lots of nudity
Had to give up her palatial home in Rome to settle tax bills
Had a brawl with a male co-star who punched her right in the kisser
Had some scenes cuts from Lisa and the Devil because they were “pornographic”
Was indicted for bigamy after a quickie Mexican marriage

Interesting Tidbits

Studied physics at the University of Naples
Was in a Fellini flick

Where can I learn more?

Sadly, the mushroom hat never really caught on

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Sunday, October 2, 2016

#5 Ingrid Pitt

Beautiful and sexy, Ingrid Pitt is my all-time favorite B movie vampire. One of the Hammer honeys, they labeled her “the most beautiful ghoul in the world.”

Though she actually didn’t make that many horror movies (and they weren’t all Hammer), she was not someone any viewer was likely to forget. She also did a wonderful job keeping her legacy alive, becoming a convention regular, operating her own website, writing articles for other sites and magazines, and always staying in character.

Her back story, by the way, is one of the most interesting I’ve ever run across. As a child, she actually spent three years in a Nazi concentration camp. And as a teen, she escaped from East Germany by diving in a river, swimming across, and marrying the U.S. soldier who rescued her.