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12 unusual facts about Russ Meyer


Alexander D'Arcy

Evidently a favorite of such cult directors as Roger Corman, Russ Meyer and Sam Fuller, D'Arcy was seen in Corman's The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Meyer's The Seven Minutes (1971) and Fuller's Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972).

Anthony Lovett

Influenced by Russ Meyer, David Lynch, John Waters, Fellini, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Lovett's own cinematic style fluctuated between surreal, sophomoric, and salacious.

Arnis BalĨus

In the project Episodes the artist was staging various cinematic scenes on the subjects of sex and violence, referencing films by Russ Meyer, Michael Powell and John Waters.

Darlene Gray

Darlene Gray is a stripper and actress who appeared in Russ Meyer's 1966 film Mondo Topless.

Dolly Martin

After appearing in the low-budget erotic film That Tender Touch in 1969, she landed the lead role of the sexy but naive rock and roll singer Kelly Mac Namara in Russ Meyer's comedy pastiche Beyond the Valley of the Dolls the following year.

James Iglehart

Iglehart also had a role as the violent womanizing Randy Black in the Russ Meyer directed 1970 film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

John LaZar

John LaZar (born May 22, 1946) is an American actor of both stage and screen, best remembered for his lead role as Ronnie 'Z-man' Barzell in the 1970s Russ Meyer film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), co-written by Meyer and Roger Ebert.

Jonathan Gems

Gems has written a number of unproduced scripts for Burton, including a Beetlejuice sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, an updating of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" set in Burbank, California, The Hawkline Monster, a cowboy/monster movie that was to star Clint Eastwood and Jack Nicholson and Go Baby Go, a beach movie in the style of Russ Meyer.

Magnavox Odyssey series

In Russ Meyer's 1979 film Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, Ann Marie is seen playing with an Odyssey 300.

Molester's Train: Nasty Behavior

The original series ran for twelve episodes between 1982 and 1985, and was in a light-comic vein similar to early U.S. nudie-cuties such as Russ Meyer's The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959).

Shari Eubank

Shari Eubank (born June 12, 1947) is a retired American actress, best known for her starring role in the Russ Meyer film Supervixens.

You Want This

Loosely based on Russ Meyer's 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, it centers around Jackson and her friends encountering two men.


A Dirty Western

Along with Russ Meyer's nudie-cutie Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962) and the hardcore Sweet Savage (1979), the film is one of the few porn films in the American Western movie genre.

Forrest J Ackerman

In 2001 Ackerman played the part of an old wax museum caretaker in the camp comedy film The Double-D Avenger directed by William Winckler and starring Russ Meyer stars Kitten Natividad, Haji, and Raven De La Croix.

Ken Swofford

A disadvantage was being coldcocked by the breast of Babette Bardot on the set of a Russ Meyer movie, when it accidentally dislodged from her top.

Steven Parrino

Parrino used intentionally provocative subjects like abstract swastikas, rebel flags, and silhouettes of Russ Meyer starlets, Elvis Presley as rendered by Andy Warhol, the Hells Angels, Johnny Cash, and other works by Andy Warhol.

The Double-D Avenger

It's of special interest to cult movie fans since it's the only "reunion film" of Russ Meyer's famous actresses Kitten Natividad (Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens), Haji (Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) and Raven De La Croix (Up!).

Traci Topps

She has featured or starred in over 15 videos in the big-breast genre, including an appearance in the mainstream Playboy DVD Voluptuous Vixens, which was introduced by the sexploitation director Russ Meyer and also featured Jami Ferrell and Melissa Holliday.