#82 Salli Sachse

Poor Salli Sachse. She will be forever remembered primarily as one of Jackson Browne’s many girlfriends. Yup, in addition to Daryl Hannah, and Joni Mitchell, and Nico, and Laura Nyro, and Phoebe Snow, and Jaid Barrymore … there was Salli.

On the thespian side, Salli actually tallied only 17 credits, almost all of which were for beach movies. She did branch out at the end, though, with a handful of hot rod, biker, and youth-gone-wild flicks. To tell you the truth, it doesn’t seem like she was ever in anything that didn’t have “B” and “drive-in” written all over it.

Embarrassing Real Name:  Sally Rogers

Cheesy Pageant Titles

• Miss La Jolla
• Maid of California, runner-up

Embarrassing Movies

• Beach Blanket Bingo
• Muscle Beach Party
• How To Stuff a Wild Bikini
• The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine *
• Wild in the Streets
• Devil’s Angels *

* - author has seen

Embarrassing Taglines

• FOR BEGINNERS AND EXPERTS... an interesting course in THE BIRDS... THE BEES and BIKINIS
• It's where every torso is more so, and bare-as-you-dare is the rule!
• Days of screaming wheels, nights of reckless pleasure!
• Groovy Gravy!...The Trip is Out of Sight!

Embarrassing Characters

• Beach Girl
• Surfer Girl
• Pajama Girl
• Hippie Mother

Interesting Tidbits

• Was the tour photographer for Crosby Stills Nash &Young
• Has a Masters in psychology and worked as a therapist
• Is quite an accomplished painter (see her site for more)

Where can I learn more?

• Personal site
• IMDb
• Interview
• Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen 
• Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema, Tom Lisanti 

Nice muffs!

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#83 Kathrine Baumann

A lot of the babes in this blog have beauty titles. Kathrine Baumann  may be the only one, however, who was an actual first runner-up Miss America. Somehow, though, all she managed to translate that into was some of the worst grade Z stuff out there.

If you Google her today, though, you’re most likely to get hits about jewelry. I’ll let her explain (from www.kbaumann.com):

In 1988, Baumann, launched Kathrine Baumann Beverly Hills, eventually becoming celebrated as the “Beverly Hills Bag Lady.” Combining her talent for design with her showmanship and experience as an actress, Baumann creates minaudieres [a small, decorative handbag without handles or a strap] that have established her, in the eyes of many around Hollywood as the “Queen of Hollywood’s Red Carpet.” Baumann has also been touted by CNN as the “female Andy Warhol.” Her clients have ranged from Joan Rivers and Suzanne Somers to actress Bai Ling and singer Dionne Warwick.

Embarrassing Real Birthplace:  Independence, OH

Pageant Titles

• Miss Independence
• Miss Ohio
• Miss America, runner-up

Embarrassing Movies

• Evel Knievel
• Terror at Alacatraz
• Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders *
• Chrome and Hot Leather *
• The Thing with Two Heads

* - author has seen

Embarrassing Taglines

• It's kill or be killed in a cycle gang-war!
• Don't muck around with a Green Beret's Mama! He'll take his chopper and ram it down your throat!
• They transplanted a white bigot's head on a soul brother's body!

Interesting Tidbits:  Unless you’re interested in minaudieres, I’m afraid I don’t have a lot

Where can I learn more?

• IMDb
• Personal site (and minaudieres for sale)

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#84 Jeanne Carmen

Jeanne Carmen is the first of our classic ‘50s-era platinum blondes. Though she had only 20 credits to her name, they were almost all classic stinkers. Interestingly, a lot of Jeanne’s notoriety comes from her extracurricular activities, including:

• Being a real live Li’l Abner character (if growing up in Paragould AR, picking cotton as a child, and running away from home at age 13 counts)
• Being a huge pinup star (in mags like Carnival, Dare, Glance, Pose and Titter), with no qualms about getting all nekkid
• Hanging out with the Rat Pack
• Being the first female trick shot golfer, including being able to hit a ball out of someone’s mouth 210 yards

By the way, there is quite an interesting photo out there that combines bullets 2 and 4. This is a family-oriented blog, though, so I won’t include it here and, instead, will let you get onto Google Images yourself (but not you, kid!).

Embarrassing Real Birthplace:  Paragould, AR

Cheesy Pageant Titles

• Miss Orange Whip
• Miss Potato Chip of 1954

Embarrassing Movies

• Untamed Youth *
• I Married a Woman
• House of Women
• The Devil’s Hand *
• Striporama
• The Naked Monster

* - author has seen

Embarrassing Taglines

• They Carved a Scar of Ravaging Terror Across The West!
• It struck with savage fury destroying ... killing all that crossed its path!
• Youth turned “rock-n-roll” wild and the “punishment” farm that makes them wilder!
• Secrets of the cells! Shame of inmates! Babies born in jails! Innocents thrown in with female bully-boys!!!! 
• MAN-MONSTER FROM THE SLIMY DEPTHS!

Embarrassing Characters

• Mrs. Lipschitz
• Blonde Cultist
• Polimita
• Serelda
• Tassles Terhune

Shortest Marriage:  Less than a year

Unlikely Spouses & Boyfriends

• Peter Lawford
• Dean Martin
• Frank Sinatra
• Mobster Johnny Roselli
• Sammy Davis Jr.
• Ricardo Montalban
• Telly Savalas
• Errol Flynn
• Clark Gable
• Bob Hope
• Jack Benny
• Jerry Lewis
• Howard Hughes
• Elvis
• RFK
• JFK

Whiffs of Scandal:  Other than the mobsters and the nudity, you mean?

Interesting Tidbits

• 38DD-26-36
• Of French, Irish, and Native American descent
• She claimed to be Marilyn Monroe’s BFF
• Played a dominatrix in George Michael's video for "Outside," his comeback after being arrested for  “lewd acts” in a Los Angeles public lavatory

Where can I learn more?

• Official site
• Jeanne Carmen: My Wild, Wild Life as a New York Pin Up Queen, Trick Shot Golfer & Hollywood Actress (book)
• Jeanne Carmen: Queen of the B-Movies, E! True Hollywood Story (video)
• Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen
• IMDb
• Obit
• Wikipedia

Jeanne & (unknown) friend

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#85 Marianna Hill

Marianna Hill bounced back and forth between movies and TV – she was an Elvis girl as well as a Star Trek babe. Her versatility took her from cornball TV shows like Mayberry RFD to art films like Medium Cool and the under-appreciated Messiah of Evil. And her expertise with dialects and a willingness to don wigs of all styles and colors made her something of a Meryl Streep of the B’s. Though she appeared in The Godfather II and also opposite Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter, she never really received roles worthy of her talent. 

By the way, you haven’t lived until you’ve seen her strip scene in El Condor. This is a family-oriented blog, so I won't include any links to that (cough, cough, YouTube, cough, cough).

Embarrassing Real Name:  Mariana Schwarzkopf

Embarrassing Movies

• Chief Zabu
• Paradise, Hawaiian Style
• Messiah of Evil *
• Death at Love House *
• Blood Beach *

* - author has seen

Embarrassing Taglines

• Here comes the speed breed!
• Fang and claw killers stalk the city streets!
• The biggest, most violent adventure ever to explode you out of your seat!
• A Criminally Insane Murderer Escapes From The Institution – By Becoming Invisible!

Embarrassing Characters

• Belladonna
• Lani Kaimana
• Gundred Herzallerliebst
• Bliss Joy

Interesting Tidbits

• Yes, she is related to Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
• Of English, Spanish, Jewish, and Native American descent
• Grew up in the US, UK, and Spain
• Lives in London
• Coached acting at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Studio there
• Once dated Henry Kissinger
• Claimed to have an IQ of 165

Where can I learn more?

• Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen
• IMDb
• Wikipedia
• Star Trek site
• Elvis's Women 

Paging Ralphie Parker. Paging Mr. Ralphie Parker ...

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#86 Yvette Mimieux

Hard to believe, but Yvette Mimieux is not really French! Yes, it is true that her father was a French native. Her mother, however, was Mexican. And Yvette herself was born in L.A.

That said, she always did remind me of a poor man’s Catherine Deneuve. She has the same elegant, demure, vulnerable, rather girl-like, and – I’ll admit – very French persona. Unlike Mlle. Deneuve, though, Mlle. Mimieux was in more than her share of classic B’s.

One of my personal favorites of those is The Time Machine, where Yvette portrays a very fetching Eloi. In fact, I’m pretty sure I had a major crush on her Weena back when I was ten or so.

BTW, she still looks great today.

Embarrassing Movies

• The Neptune Factor
• The Delta Factor
• Hit Lady
• Journey into Fear
• Snowbeast *
• Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell *

* - author has seen

Embarrassing Taglines

• DEAN GOES FOR YVETTE...YVETTE GOES FOR DEAN...and the whole town goes ape over a quartet of olive-pickin' chimps!
• Mickey Spillane. His Gut-Ripping! ... Face Splattering! ... Adventure Turns a Caribbean Paradise into a Bullet-Riddled Island of Hell!
• The storekeeper's daughter! The midnight fight! In the path of the speeding killer-cruiser! "The Three Brutes!" (?!?!)

Embarrassing Characters

• Weena
• Lorinda Nibley
• Deliverance
• Chi Chi Desnoyer

Number of Marriages:  3

Interesting Tidbits

• Once made a recording reading Beaudelaire’s Le Fleurs du Mal with Ali Akbar Khan’s ragas in the background
• Is into yoga, and created her own yoga fitness video
• Is an amateur anthropologist (?!?!)

Where can I learn more?   

• IMDb
• Brian's Drive-In Theatre
• Wikipedia
• Fan site
• Fan site 2

Yvette and friend

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#87 Corinne Clery

Most of us know Corinne Clery from one of two incarnations:

• As Moonraker’s Corinne Dufour, one of Hugo Drax’s many henchwomen. (Yes, she’s the one who makes out with Bond and then, in retribution, is chased down by Drax’s Dobermans.)
• As the female lead (i.e., O) in The Story of O.

The latter is actually much more representative of Mlle. Clery’s oeuvre. In fact, her cinematic career is mostly soft porn. I actually had a hard time finding pictures of her with her clothes on!

Embarrassing Real Name:  Corinna Piccolo

Embarrassing Movies

• Striptease
• Holiday Hookers
• Fleshy Doll
• White Cobra Express
• The Humanoid
• Yor, the Hunter from the Future

Embarrassing Taglines

• She was depraved, debauched, lying, conniving, cheating, scheming, lewd, shrewd ... Everything he ever wanted in a woman!
• He is from a future world. Trapped in prehistoric times. Searching for his past. A hunter of incredible power and strength. In his quest for his origin, he and the woman he loves must fight hostile tribes. Battle deadly beasts. And try to survive the violent forces of a newly born Earth.
• The Masterpiece of Bizarre Love That Stormed France. A Portrait of Love and Submission to Disorder the Senses.

Embarrassing Characters

• Senine
• Ponyette
• Ka-Laa
• O

Number of Marriages:  3

Whiffs of Scandal:

• First marriage at age 17
• The Story of O and all that other soft porn 

Where can I learn more?

• IMDb
• Wikipedia

 

"Bloody Peanuts"???

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#88 Chelo Alonso

Chelo Alonso was born in Cuba, was half Mexican, and was known for that very Italian genre, the sword and sandal epic. The highlight of each of these seemed to be her doing some hot and sexy dancing before some Hercules or Samson or whoever.

Her acting skills appear to have run the gamut from fiery Latina A to fiery Latina B. Obviously, though, she wasn’t there for her thespian skills. Her nickname was the “The Cuban H-Bomb.” You really have to check out some of her “dance sequences” on YouTube.

Boring Real Name:  Isabella Garcia

Embarrassing Real Birthplace:  Central Lugareno, Cuba

Cheesy Pageant Titles:  Italian Cinema's Female Discovery of 1959

Embarrassing Movies

• The Pirate and the Slave Girl
• Sheba and the Gladiator
• Goliath and the Barbarians
• Atlas Against the Cyclops
• The Huns

Embarrassing Taglines

• HIS NAME AND FAME RAGE OVER THE SEAS OF THE WORLD!
• Passionate Savages Fighting For Their Lives ... Their Loves ...
• SEE! 10,000 NORSEMEN CHARGE THE VALLEY OF BLOOD

Embarrassing Characters

• Suleima
• Karima
• Tanya, Queen of the Tartars
• Queen Smedes

Interesting Tidbits

• 36-21-36
• Was the main star of the Folies-Bergeres, and was hailed as the next Josephine Baker
• Was asked by Che Guevara personally to return to Cuba after the revolution
• Upon retirement, became a cat breeder, hotelier & restaurateur

Where can I learn more?

• IMDb
• Wikipedia
• Cuban history site
• Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen

Nice hat!

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