Classic American Lesser Known Celebrities

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While going through a 1968 (listed on the IMDb as 1970) film called The Wild Scene for the purposes of my post from directly above (now at the bottom of the previous page), there was a scene of a young actress who showed off what was underneath her clothing. Thus, this post.



Her name is Wendy Stuart, and here's her IMDb page. She began as a child actress in 1957, and her last kid's role was in a 1959 episode of Gunsmoke (which sounds like a winner, from what I'm reading. With her half-breed Indian mom.)



That was it for Wendy, and after her eight year break, she returned in a 1967 episode of the popular show, The Wild Wild West. She was assigned a character name, with the implication the role had some meat. In that same year, she appeared in a feature film, but was uncredited. She then appeared in Panic in the City (1968) as a "receptionist," and I went through the movie, finding only one scene with a receptionist, but her face wasn't seen:


It's possible there may have been another
receptionist that I missed.

In The Wild Scene, she had a pretty juicy role as a sensitive daughter who is troubled by how her domineering mother picks on her poor old dad. She keeps asking him to put lotion on her, and finally, when she realizes her body has had the desired effect, she tells him that he is a man after all. (At which point he says, "This is wrong," but closes in before the fade-out.)



Given the year the IMDb has associated with the movie, it seemed The Wild Scene was the actress's swan song, but now it seems her entire adult screen career took place in 1967 and 1968. Then Wendy had enough.











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I wanted to add a little warning that the actress described above is not to be confused with several others with the same name, but when I learned of one who appeared in more risque fare, a special section needed to be devoted. Here is the IMDb filmography of the second Wendy Stuart, and her career consisted only of five titles from 1979 to 1984, and the last two were X-raters from the Golden Age of porn — and both were of high quality (the last one, from what I'm reading, and the first one from memory, as I had seen it years ago and was impressed. Both, by the way, featured Ron Jeremy).




Here is the way Wendy Stuart Number Two appeared in Waitress!, a Troma comedy from 1980 (although the IMDb has attached the year 1982 to it).



Tracy was given a couple of lines that didn't require much acting talent, but it's not as though she didn't pull off coming across professionally. In other words, it appears she could have been a contender, but just didn't get the breaks.



Her first film was a comedy called Incoming Freshmen (1979), which an IMDb commentator claiming to be a part of the cast wrote was "funny, sexy, raunchy" when he saw a screening, but the distributor ruined the movie. The film has a VEF thread, and luckily Member "Immy" included a still of our lady in this 2021 post, which I've reworked:



The porn film I liked from way back when also has a VEF thread, with a download I took advantage of in order to provide the following screen shots. Wendy was in the "Plato's Retreat" sequence according to the IMDb description, and that made it easy to locate her:



Her screen time was limited to a minute of dancing, and she was not in the hardcore scenes. The film was When She Was Bad (1983), and I'm on the same page with an IMDb commentator who wrote for his review's headline: "Sincere, very well-acted drama from the tail-end of theatrical Adult Cinema." I see on the film's VEF thread, there was a Hustler reviewer who disliked the film because it was too much of an "emotional drama." A follow-up review from Cinema Blue thought otherwise. The writer, director and producer were one and the same, increasing the odds that the result came from the heart.



What impressed me was the performance of the star, Georgina Spelvin (I also liked the way her lover acted, one R. Bolla, A.K.A. Robert Kerman), who struck me as a real actress (in addition, her seasoned look was interesting. I see she was pushing fifty at the time); I imagined she took a turn to porn maybe out of frustration from how the regular acting jobs weren't coming in (looking at her IMDb page, I see I was wrong, because after she began as a dancer in 1969's Sweet Charity and Hello, Dolly!, she got right into the Triple XXX stuff, beginning with 1973's The Devil in Miss Jones).



Wendy's second porno was entitled Never Sleep Alone (1984), which an IMDb commentator judged as "High-quality porno chic." (Directed and produced by the same guy, Kemal Horulu, a Turkish-American.) The actress didn't have a character name, probably indicating she had a bit part where Ms. Stuart likely did not get down and dirty, as with her first dip into the porn waters.

It must have been a big downer for Ms. Stuart, with dreams of being an actress, to have found roles only in porn (and before that, in exploitation fare; she was also in 1982's Model Behavior, which I've referred to several times for covered actresses, as with this one. It would have been too hard to locate Wendy, one of a dozen "Lily white girls"), probably leading to her decision to quit. Her location of New York City also didn't help for greater opportunities. She was attractive, she was blond, she was not without ability as far as I could sense, and the business proved to be unforgiving.












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[amfanmagician]

Remington Steele, s3 e10, Breath of Steele

[Wendigo]

Lise Hilboldt
Born January 7, 1954 · Racine, Wisconsin
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383805/bio/

The Professionals, s3e6 - A Hiding to Nothing
Episode aired Dec 1, 1979
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0679292/

[hefestus]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094103/
Bobby Ettienne, Elizabeth Carder, etc - Talking Walls (1987) 1080p BluRay REMUX
w/June Wilkinson, Karen Leigh Hopkins, Sybil Danning



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Video #0 : AVC at 8 044 kb/s
Aspect : 1800 x 1080 (1.667) at 24.000 fps

Audio #0 : AAC at 256 kb/s
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https://k2s.cc/file/1ad5107d9f243/zo...%29_108_BR.mp4
or
https://rapidgator.net/file/647a014e...08_BR.mp4.html

[Sonnet]

Born: Dorrie Thomson on July 23rd, 1947 in Manchester, England
Actress: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860995/

Operation Petticoat promotional photos | 1977



HQ pics | Linked Gallery HERE

[snoopy1917]

Karen Ciral The Cycle Savages https://ulozto.net/file/DeZXOaL9H4SN...cQJKcfFJR0Zt==

[Findcandor]

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C.H.U.D. II: BUD THE CHUD


From a 2017 post on this thread:

Originally Posted by Wendigo

Tricia Leigh Fisher
Born: December 26, 1968 in Burbank, California, USA
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279826/

Caps from C.H.U.D. II - Bud the Chud (1989)

Wendigo made a large presentation of shots from the film, but when the image server took a hike, the pictures died as well. In fact, this tireless member offered a good number of other posts on page 65 (and doubtless the pages before and after) where the images are now no-shows. What a shame, after all of the effort on his part.


At any rate, I blundered into the same film (actually, I dug it up because Sandra Kerns is in this zombie "comedy" (that word is in quotations because the humor was strained), and I intended to put up views of Sandra when I prepared the recent post on the actress (now on the prior page), then forgot all about it. (Too bad, because the actress looked very good in this film.)



Tricia Leigh Fisher was cast as the "sexpot" of C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud, which is about a cadaver stolen by high school students, little knowing it's a "C.H.U.D.," intended as a military fighting unit. Once the corpse (nicknamed "Bud") is accidentally resuscitated, the plague is spread to others in the town. Some familiar faces in the cast make the film easier to watch.



Bud has a thing for Tricia Leigh, after he runs into her photograph. Near the finale, when they come face-to-face, he pathetically says "Hi," and then digs into his chest to offer his heart. When the kids devise a plan to get rid of the undead by luring them into the gymnasium pool (succeeding in trapping a dozen or two, when there were at least a hundred by then), Tricia Leigh changes into her swimsuit, bursts into the hall where the school has a dance, and says, "Hey! Zombies..! Who wants a bite?" (One of the movie's better lines.) Before running off, she dares them to "come and get it," at which point the zombies answer, "Yum yum yum." (Let's face it, she did look good enough to eat.)





I wanted to pay a nod to another actress in the cast who was hired for sex appeal. (She's listed all the way at the end of the credits, even though her role was somewhat prominent.) Her name is Alissa Marie Mello, and it seems she has appeared in no other film whatsoever. Another nod goes to Bianca Jagger, who turned in a cameo at the end.

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Alissa just may be wearing Tricia Leigh's swimsuit; the store might have had a sale.

I am unfamiliar with Tricia Leigh Fisher, although I have seen a few of the titles she has appeared in. She began in 1985, in fact, in a film I have a soft spot for, and made a very decent run in her screen career, to date calling it quits in 2019. How intriguing to learn the lady is a product of Hollywood royalty (or semi-royalty), a daughter of Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens. Another daughter is Joely Fisher, who managed a successful acting career (I'm also unfamiliar with her. I marvel at how I could wallow in such ignorance.)


She married actor Byron Thames in 2007; the couple was seen at the Hollywood Museum on December 03, 2022.
At the same event in the next photo, with sis Joely Fisher. Last, with mom Connie Stevens, and Susan Anton.

Ms. Fisher is also the younger half-sister of Carrie Fisher, with whom she appeared in a 2001 TV movie called These Old Broads, which Carrie co-wrote. In this film starring Shirley MacLaine, Debbie Reynolds and Joan Collins (as the broads; Elizabeth Taylor was also featured), Carrie and Tricia Leigh played hookers in a quick scene, as seen in the first photo below. (The third actress looks familiar, and I wonder who she was.)

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The film I have a soft spot for is Stick (1985), or Tricia Leigh's debut movie. This was one of Burt Reynolds' unsuccessful attempts to recapture his superstar status. (Candice Bergen was the leading lady, and for those who have seen Stick, you may recall the albino hit man seen above.) Here is Tricia Leigh, with Burt. I had to ditch the shots I collected, because I realized afterwards she was seventeen at the time.




Hostile Intentions (1995) is a thriller starring Tia Carrere, where she, Tricia Leigh Fisher and a third actress vacation in Mexico and run into big trouble. Member "Apo2021" made a presentation of images from this film months ago on Tia's thread, and I reworked one of his photos, now seen above (my film copy wasn't the best).



In one scene, the police sexually abuse Tricia Leigh, where we get to see quick glimpses of her bosom.



The film was written and directed by a woman, and I'm figuring Ms. Fisher made the "nudity concession" (assuming this was her first time; I have a feeling it was her only time) to drive home what everyone knows, that "rape is wrong." After the violence is over, Tia Carrere goes to console Tricia Leigh, and the latter is so hysterical, she says, "Don't touch me." I think some would agree there are times messages may be conveyed more effectively without the heavy hand.














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[Sonnet]

Born: Ilene Susan Graff on February 28th, 1949 in Queens, New York, USA
Actress: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333778/

Ilene is best known for playing Marsha Cameron Owens in the TV sitcom Mr. Belvedere.

Mr. Belvedere promotional photos | 1985-1990



HQ pics | Linked Gallery HERE

[Findcandor]

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A recent photo of Ilene Graff at The Hollywood
Museum's new "Smokey And The Bandit" exhibit
celebrating the 45th anniversary of the franchise,
on April 06, 2022.


Regarding his post directly above, three cheers for Member "Sonnet"..! I suppose he read my post on Sandra Kerns (now on prior page), where I pointed out how Ms. Kerns was mentioned only once on VEF, and that is when a member opined Sandra would be an ideal lesbian partner for Ilene Graff. I speculated this may have been the case given a resemblance between the two, and marveled at how both were not only aged the same, but similarly placed on the wasteland by the forum. When I checked out Ms. Graff, I thought, someone oughtta finally do a study on the actress. I pondered doing so myself, but I am so superficial, there needs to be an extra punch to a lady in my choices — although that has not always been a hard-and-fast rule; frankly, I unfairly judged the lady on her big (but boring) claim-to-fame, Mr. Belvedere, although now I see from her IMDb page there was a lot more to her. (Alas, I have a feeling she kept that "more" to herself; every single one of her vehicles were either TV shows or TV movies, cutting down on the "risqué" potential, save for two feature films from the tail end of her thirty-six-year long screen career, and in one she played a Catholic nun).




RIVER OF GRASS

I've got a big pile of ladies awaiting posts, and now it's the turn of Lisa Donaldson. I am estimating her birth year at around 1955. Ms. Donaldson's filmography.



I got wind of Ms. Donaldson in the second-to-last episode of The Rockford Files, "Just a Coupla Guys" from 1979. (Why, she started her screen career at the exact time as Ilene Graff. Okay, enough of Ms. Graff). You have to marvel at how the ball rolls for some actors, while most never get anywhere. This was Lisa's very first job, and she not only got cast in a big-time prestigious Hollywood production, but she landed the leading lady part. She played a kind of an innocent daughter of a former mob man who has turned religious, and the annoying "Coupla Guys" of the title are trying to get ahead in the Mafia through the influence of the once-felonious father.



Lisa's character endures distressed damseldom when kidnapped by a rival baddie still active in crime.



Although Lisa started out strong, and she had a lot going for her (she could pull her weight as an actress, and she was very pretty and young, and also blond), the casting gods turned on her with a vengeance... finding work in only fourteen vehicles for the duration of her screen career. She couldn't find another job until some two years later, and she was busiest in 1981, appearing in two episodes of Happy Days, as well as in Lou Grant, where she played a secretary. She then played a nurse in a 1983 TV show, and an anchorwoman in a 1984 TV show. After waiting for three years, looks like she got a small part in a TV movie (where she began to be credited as "Bowman," her now-married name), and two years later, she was cast as a "sportscaster" in Murder, She Wrote.



More views of the actress from RIVER OF GRASS.



Nothing for five years after that. (I think I'm going to cry.) Then she hit it big, at least in the independent film world, by snagging the lead role in River of Grass (1994), co-starring with the madcap Larry Fessenden. I've not heard of the film, but looks like it created a stir in some circles (and paved the way for lady director Kelly Reichardt). Lisa played one of two wastrel lovers on the run. Now you would think this new attention would have pumped fuel into the lady's stilted career.



It was not to be, and pushing forty certainly must not have helped. Lisa couldn't get another job for another four years, and that was as a reporter for a TV show (she played this role twice). Two-to-four years after that she landed a part in a feature film, described as an "eventful night at a seedy London nightclub," but the part was that of ... an extra! (The year before, in 2001, she is credited as the director of a "TV movie" called Lisa's Lunchbox Directed by Lisa Bowman, an oddity for which I could find no information.)


Finally, Lisa bared some skin
in RIVER OF GRASS.

In the same year of 2002, Lisa landed a meatier role in a horror film called Dead Above Ground, but her screen time lasted only for a minute. She played the mother of a boy in trouble with the police. (She also performed post production looping work in the scare flick.) I made sure to dig up this movie so we may glance at how she looked when the end of her career arrived. Lisa Donaldson Bowman looked pretty darned good.


DEAD ABOVE GROUND

The man she married in 1979 was a successful director and producer named Chuck Bowman, and it could be that a comfortable married life swayed her into taking it easy, Had she felt gung-ho about persisting with the acting, you would think his connections would have helped open doors. (You know, now that I'm thinking, he might have played a significant hand as to why Lisa came out of nowhere and from the get-go landed a juicy part on a successful TV series. The two were married in August, and her Rockford Files episode aired in December. His directing career was already underway, but he started as an actor himself, and one of his credits was... a 1976 episode of The Rockford Files.)

Seems she has switched to writing, beginning with Shattered Peacock, tracing the lives of an Iranian family after the Shah's fall. In 2019, she came out with As a Deer Yearns for Running Streams: The Story of Queen Margaret of Scotland. (I'm impressed about her knack for history.)

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Second image is the back cover for her 2019 work, featuring a bio.

She writes under the pen name Lisa Di Vita, and her Amazon bio interestingly has kept her acting identity as Lisa Donaldson a secret. On the other hand, the lady has a site (https://lisadivita.com/), and there's an article she wrote about her experience on Alien Nation (1989) where she had a "small role" as an "alien (some say it was type casting!) who worked as a housekeeper for an abusive woman." (The page features a photo, presumably of the actress in that role.)

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Lisa also has a little-visited YouTube channel she set up to promote her second book. (The last photo from above is a screen shot taken from her third and last video.) You can tell the acting bug still lies in her loins, from the way she sparkles during her presentation.













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