Yolanda Signorelli

**pwd_budlk_street** · April 10th, 2024, 10:17 PM

I have not seen many pictures of this woman. One of the most interesting lives. One of five daughters born to Italian-American opera star Maestro Signorelli. She was pretty girl who somehow ended up in late 60s b&w sexploitation flicks. There is not much bio but she married in 1969. Who did she marry? The millionaire inventor of the legendary rip-off toy Sea Monkeys. Harold von Braunhut. God, what kid did not have that in the 70s and 80s? Apparently there has been a legal battle over her late husband's invention.

The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune per New York Times magazine:

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Maestro Signorelli, a Bohemian possessed of “this gravitational-like field of energy.” The grand patriarch of a bustling family, Signorelli taught bel canto to locals determined to improve their coloratura. His annual Halloween masked ball attracted hundreds of “musicians, dancers and artists,” all of whom came in their most flamboyant costumes. Some attended, if only to meet one of his five beautiful daughters.

The second-youngest, Yolanda, was particularly stunning and began a film career in the mid-1960s. She played Lorilie in the 1967 bondage classic “Venus in Furs” — based on the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch novel of that name, as well as various minxes in “All Women Are Bad,” “Too Much Too Often!” “Death of a Nymphette” and “Assignment: Female.” I watched three of them, for research, and was struck mostly by how these films appeared long before the phrase “money shot” entered the lexicon and the director’s mandatory scene list. When I finally screwed up the courage to ask Signorelli von Braunhut about her previous career, she casually said: “In those days, they might have been racy, but today? I don’t think so.” Which is true. If anything, her brief movie career looks presciently campy — less like porn than like a Mike Myers parody titled, “Cool It Baby” (which is also the title of a 1967 Signorelli von Braunhut film).

Anyone have some stills from the movies? Only could find a few. She had a dozen films so not small sample

Pieces (1969)
All Women Are Bad (1969)
Love After Death (1968)
The Wicked Die Slow (1968)
Too Much Too Often! (1968)
To Turn a Trick (1967)
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted (1967)
The Singles (1967)
Venus in Furs (1967)
Death of a Nymphette (1967)
Cool It Baby (1967)
Assignment: Female (1966)

April 10th, 2024, 10:17 PM	#1
pwd_budlk_street Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 541 Thanks: 155 Thanked 9,227 Times in 521 Posts	Yolanda Signorelli I have not seen many pictures of this woman. One of the most interesting lives. One of five daughters born to Italian-American opera star Maestro Signorelli. She was pretty girl who somehow ended up in late 60s b&w sexploitation flicks. There is not much bio but she married in 1969. Who did she marry? The millionaire inventor of the legendary rip-off toy Sea Monkeys. Harold von Braunhut. God, what kid did not have that in the 70s and 80s? Apparently there has been a legal battle over her late husband's invention. The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune per New York Times magazine: excerpt Maestro Signorelli, a Bohemian possessed of “this gravitational-like field of energy.” The grand patriarch of a bustling family, Signorelli taught bel canto to locals determined to improve their coloratura. His annual Halloween masked ball attracted hundreds of “musicians, dancers and artists,” all of whom came in their most flamboyant costumes. Some attended, if only to meet one of his five beautiful daughters. The second-youngest, Yolanda, was particularly stunning and began a film career in the mid-1960s. She played Lorilie in the 1967 bondage classic “Venus in Furs” — based on the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch novel of that name, as well as various minxes in “All Women Are Bad,” “Too Much Too Often!” “Death of a Nymphette” and “Assignment: Female.” I watched three of them, for research, and was struck mostly by how these films appeared long before the phrase “money shot” entered the lexicon and the director’s mandatory scene list. When I finally screwed up the courage to ask Signorelli von Braunhut about her previous career, she casually said: “In those days, they might have been racy, but today? I don’t think so.” Which is true. If anything, her brief movie career looks presciently campy — less like porn than like a Mike Myers parody titled, “Cool It Baby” (which is also the title of a 1967 Signorelli von Braunhut film). Anyone have some stills from the movies? Only could find a few. She had a dozen films so not small sample Pieces (1969) All Women Are Bad (1969) Love After Death (1968) The Wicked Die Slow (1968) Too Much Too Often! (1968) To Turn a Trick (1967) File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted (1967) The Singles (1967) Venus in Furs (1967) Death of a Nymphette (1967) Cool It Baby (1967) Assignment: Female (1966)