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License: Maryland; c1 Oct 1966; LP33019 : 17 Nov 1966

License: Maryland; c1 Oct 1966; LP33019 : 17 Nov 1966

Russ Meyer, the filmmaker whom many historians credit
for creating the soft-porn industry with such
self-descriptive titles as The Immoral Mr.
Teas, Vixen, and of course, the cult
classic of the genre, Faster Pussycat, Kill,
Kill, died on September 18 in his Hollywood Hills
of complications from pneumonia. He was 82.

Born Russell Albion Meyer on March 21, 2004 in
Oakland, California, his father was a policeman and
mother a nurse. It was the latter that lent young
Rusty the money to purchase an 8-millimeter Univex
picture-taking machine when he was 12. Quickly he was
making films around the neighborhood and won his first
prize by the time he was 15. When World War II came
around, he was sent to Europe as a newsreel cameraman.
After the war, he became a professional photographer,
working on studio sets, producing stills on such films
as Guys and Dolls and Giant. He
eventually found himself doing glamour shots of
beautiful models, and would then find fame as one of
Hugh Hefner's chief photographers for Playboy
magazine.

Sensing that the same audience who was receptive to
Playboy would also be receptive to a "nudie"
flick, Meyer made his film debut with The Immoral
Mr. Teas (1959). Shot as a silent on a miniscule
budget of only $24,000, the financial windfall of this
soft-core sex film astounded the movie industry,
garnering over $1 million. The key to Meyer's success
was to walk the fine line between sexual baiting and
obscenity. The plot - a man subjected to a powerful
anesthetic discovers that he can see through the
clothes of every woman who walks by him - was
titillating without being too graphic (there is never
any physical contact between the players), and Meyer
cleverly worked himself around the local film censors
while still appealing to his mostly male audience.

Meyer kept the streak coming with such films as
Erotica (1961), Wild Gals of the Naked
West (1962), and Europe in the Raw (1963),
but these were still soft core teasers that
concentrated more on voyeurism, than anything more
intimate. That changed with the release of the
notorious Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill (1965),
where there was a healthy dose of foreplay, leather,
blood, carnage, and big-breasted gals for the
filmgoers. He kept the fever pitch up with the
equally raunchy Motor Psycho (1965), and
Mondo Topless (1966). Although his films were
relegated to drive-ins, arthouses and adult theaters,
many of these viewers came back for more screenings,
and Meyer was seeing a healthy profit being turned on
his productions.

The film that would eventually break him out of the
underground was Vixen (1968). The title
character was essentially a nymphomaniac who would
sleep with anybody - including her own brother! The
film had purists in a lather, which is just what Meyer
- ever the self-promotor - wanted. The film was an
astounding hit. The entire production cost merely
$76,000 dollars, yet earned over $6 million. 20th
Century Fox, in deep financial trouble, wanted to cash
in on the sudden rash of X-rated films and signed
Meyer to direct his first big-studio picture. The
film, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), an
in-name only sequel to Valley of the Dolls
(1967), was a smash. The screenplay, written by film
critic Roger Ebert, dealt with the lives of three young
ladies who were determined to make it as a rock band
at any cost! It was well-received as a fairly sharp
parody of its predecessor and holding more than its
share of campy laughs. His next film, the "serious",
The Seven Minutes (1971), based on the
best-selling novel by Irving Wallace about a
pornography trial, was a critical and commercial flop,
and it quickly ended his career in big-budget
pictures.

By the mid-'70s, Meyer returned to the skin game with
such titles as Supervixens (1975), Up!
(1976), and his final film Beneath the Valley of
the Ultra-Vixens (1979). With the advent of
hard-core pornography (Meyer's films were teasing but
never explicit) and the demise of drive-ins, Meyer
found himself out of fashion in the adult film
industry. By the '80s, he was something of a recluse,
although he continued to make money with the success
of his films on VHS, and eventually DVD.

Toward the end of his life, Meyer saw much
appreciation for his work on numerous levels: he was
offered a cameo role as a video camera salesman in
John Landis' (a longtime fan of Meyer) Amazon Women
on the Moon (1987); respect from mainstream film
critics, various film festivals honoring his work;
teachings on his films offered in modern culture
courses at such respectable modern institutions as
Yale and Harvard; and the open sincerity of noted
directors like Landis and John Waters, who claim that
Meyer is a great influence on their own work. In
1992, Meyer published his three-volume autobiography,
A Clean Breast: The Life and Loves of Russ
Meyer. Meyer was single at the time of his death
and he left no survivors.

by Michael T. Toole

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In San Francisco some professional topless dancers are interviewed and shown at work, among them Pat Barringer, Darlene Grey, Sin Lenee, Darla Paris, Diane Young, Donna "X," and Babette Bardot. In Brussels' Moulin Rouge, topless dancer Veronique Gabriel performs her "dance of the leather belt." Greta Thorwald is interviewed in Copenhagen at the Atlantic Palace; and Denise Duval is seen at Le Cabaret Sexy in Nancy, France. Lorna Maitland, star of the sex exploitation film Lorna , is interviewed, and her screen test for Lorna is shown. In Paris, Gigi La Touche is seen at the Place Pigalle; and Abundavita is shown at work in Berlin's Fair Lady Film Bar. Heide Richter performs at Casino de Paris in Hamburg, and Yvette Le Grand is interviewed and seen onstage in the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris.

Also known as Mondo Girls and Mondo Top . Includes footage from Europe in the Raw , q.v.
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License: Maryland; c1 Oct 1966; LP33019 : 17 Nov 1966

License: Maryland; c1 Oct 1966; LP33019 : 17 Nov 1966

Russ Meyer, the filmmaker whom many historians credit
for creating the soft-porn industry with such
self-descriptive titles as The Immoral Mr.
Teas, Vixen, and of course, the cult
classic of the genre, Faster Pussycat, Kill,
Kill, died on September 18 in his Hollywood Hills
of complications from pneumonia. He was 82.

Born Russell Albion Meyer on March 21, 2004 in
Oakland, California, his father was a policeman and
mother a nurse. It was the latter that lent young
Rusty the money to purchase an 8-millimeter Univex
picture-taking machine when he was 12. Quickly he was
making films around the neighborhood and won his first
prize by the time he was 15. When World War II came
around, he was sent to Europe as a newsreel cameraman.
After the war, he became a professional photographer,
working on studio sets, producing stills on such films
as Guys and Dolls and Giant. He
eventually found himself doing glamour shots of
beautiful models, and would then find fame as one of
Hugh Hefner's chief photographers for Playboy
magazine.

Sensing that the same audience who was receptive to
Playboy would also be receptive to a "nudie"
flick, Meyer made his film debut with The Immoral
Mr. Teas (1959). Shot as a silent on a miniscule
budget of only $24,000, the financial windfall of this
soft-core sex film astounded the movie industry,
garnering over $1 million. The key to Meyer's success
was to walk the fine line between sexual baiting and
obscenity. The plot - a man subjected to a powerful
anesthetic discovers that he can see through the
clothes of every woman who walks by him - was
titillating without being too graphic (there is never
any physical contact between the players), and Meyer
cleverly worked himself around the local film censors
while still appealing to his mostly male audience.

Meyer kept the streak coming with such films as
Erotica (1961), Wild Gals of the Naked
West (1962), and Europe in the Raw (1963),
but these were still soft core teasers that
concentrated more on voyeurism, than anything more
intimate. That changed with the release of the
notorious Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill (1965),
where there was a healthy dose of foreplay, leather,
blood, carnage, and big-breasted gals for the
filmgoers. He kept the fever pitch up with the
equally raunchy Motor Psycho (1965), and
Mondo Topless (1966). Although his films were
relegated to drive-ins, arthouses and adult theaters,
many of these viewers came back for more screenings,
and Meyer was seeing a healthy profit being turned on
his productions.

The film that would eventually break him out of the
underground was Vixen (1968). The title
character was essentially a nymphomaniac who would
sleep with anybody - including her own brother! The
film had purists in a lather, which is just what Meyer
- ever the self-promotor - wanted. The film was an
astounding hit. The entire production cost merely
$76,000 dollars, yet earned over $6 million. 20th
Century Fox, in deep financial trouble, wanted to cash
in on the sudden rash of X-rated films and signed
Meyer to direct his first big-studio picture. The
film, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), an
in-name only sequel to Valley of the Dolls
(1967), was a smash. The screenplay, written by film
critic Roger Ebert, dealt with the lives of three young
ladies who were determined to make it as a rock band
at any cost! It was well-received as a fairly sharp
parody of its predecessor and holding more than its
share of campy laughs. His next film, the "serious",
The Seven Minutes (1971), based on the
best-selling novel by Irving Wallace about a
pornography trial, was a critical and commercial flop,
and it quickly ended his career in big-budget
pictures.

By the mid-'70s, Meyer returned to the skin game with
such titles as Supervixens (1975), Up!
(1976), and his final film Beneath the Valley of
the Ultra-Vixens (1979). With the advent of
hard-core pornography (Meyer's films were teasing but
never explicit) and the demise of drive-ins, Meyer
found himself out of fashion in the adult film
industry. By the '80s, he was something of a recluse,
although he continued to make money with the success
of his films on VHS, and eventually DVD.

Toward the end of his life, Meyer saw much
appreciation for his work on numerous levels: he was
offered a cameo role as a video camera salesman in
John Landis' (a longtime fan of Meyer) Amazon Women
on the Moon (1987); respect from mainstream film
critics, various film festivals honoring his work;
teachings on his films offered in modern culture
courses at such respectable modern institutions as
Yale and Harvard; and the open sincerity of noted
directors like Landis and John Waters, who claim that
Meyer is a great influence on their own work. In
1992, Meyer published his three-volume autobiography,
A Clean Breast: The Life and Loves of Russ
Meyer. Meyer was single at the time of his death
and he left no survivors.

by Michael T. Toole

©2022 Turner Classic Movies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

©2022 Turner Classic Movies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

By using this site, you agree to our updated Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use

In San Francisco some professional topless dancers are interviewed and shown at work, among them Pat Barringer, Darlene Grey, Sin Lenee, Darla Paris, Diane Young, Donna "X," and Babette Bardot. In Brussels' Moulin Rouge, topless dancer Veronique Gabriel performs her "dance of the leather belt." Greta Thorwald is interviewed in Copenhagen at the Atlantic Palace; and Denise Duval is seen at Le Cabaret Sexy in Nancy, France. Lorna Maitland, star of the sex exploitation film Lorna , is interviewed, and her screen test for Lorna is shown. In Paris, Gigi La Touche is seen at the Place Pigalle; and Abundavita is shown at work in Berlin's Fair Lady Film Bar. Heide Richter performs at Casino de Paris in Hamburg, and Yvette Le Grand is interviewed and seen onstage in the Crazy Horse Saloon in Paris.

Also known as Mondo Girls and Mondo Top . Includes footage from Europe in the Raw , q.v.
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