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Chasing Butterflies: Stories of Cubans in Exploitation-Era Florida – Part 3,...
Previously on Chasing Butterflies – Stories of Cubans in Exploitation-Era Florida: You may remember Marcy Bichette’s start in life from our earlier episodes: she was born Marcelle Denise Bichette in St...
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Chasing Butterflies: Stories of Cubans in Exploitation-Era Florida – Part 4,...
Previously on Chasing Butterflies – Stories of Cubans in Exploitation-Era Florida: After Dolores Carlos’ retirement from acting in South Florida nudie films in the late 1960s, she still remained close...
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Neither the Nudie-Cuties nor the Gore: Louise Downe’s Contributions to the...
Last week, we concluded our series on the impact of Cuban immigrants on the Florida exploitation films industry in the 1960s and 1970s. One of the peripheral characters in the wider story was Louise...
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The Passing of Abigail Clayton: A Fleeting Conversation
Abigail Clayton, the actor who played waif-like ingénue characters in a brief series of 1970s adult films, passed a short time ago. Her presence – an affecting blend of a blonde Isabelle Adjani and a...
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A Taija Rae Photo Shoot (1986)
Regular visitors to The Rialto Report will need no introduction to Taija Rae, one of the best loved stars of the mid-to late 1980s. For anyone else, including those discovering her for the first time,...
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Indoors on a Rainy Day – with Roberta Findlay and C.J. Laing
What was it like to work on an adult film set in 1970s New York? We recently were contacted by a successful director of glossy, high-end commercials, and he talked about starting his career – on the...
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‘Blowdry’ (1976): How a New York Free-Love Artist Commune Made a Porno
It’s 1965, and a twenty-two-year-old student at the University of Toronto, David Secter writes, directs and funds a ground-breaking feature film, Winter Kept Us Warm (1965). A gay-themed independent...
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Nude in New York – The Photos of Bob Adelman
Back in 2017, The Rialto Report spoke to Bob Adelman about his landmark book of photographs, ‘Gentleman of Leisure’ (1972), which documented a year in the life of a New York pimp called Silky and his...
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NYC Starlets – Part 5: Darby Lloyd Rains – Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (Act 1)
Darby Lloyd Rains may be the ultimate Rialto Report golden age actress. She was part of the initial group of ‘porn pioneers’ in New York, together with Marc Stevens, Tina Russell, Georgina Spelvin,...
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NYC Starlets – Part 5: Darby Lloyd Rains – Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Act 2)
Darby Lloyd Rains may be the ultimate Rialto Report golden age actress. She was part of the initial group of ‘porn pioneers’ in New York, together with Marc Stevens, Tina Russell, Georgina Spelvin,...
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Leonard Kirtman: The XXX Money-Maker – Part 1, The Early Years
Leonard Kirtman may well be the most prolific adult filmmaker from the golden age of adult film. Between the late 1960s and the mid 1980s, he made scores of shot-on-film movies – and even today, the...
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Leonard Kirtman: The XXX Money Maker – Part 2, The Hardcore Years
In the first part of our interview with golden age adult film director, Leonard Kirtman, he spoke about how he pioneered a production-line approach to making softcore movies in the 1960s, using his...
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Orita De Chadwick: To Hell and Back, Part 1
Orita De Chadwick was an instantly recognizable figure in early Los Angeles adult films: her blonde hair, high cheekbones, and statuesque physique coupled with decent acting chops made her stand out...
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Orita De Chadwick: To Hell and Back, Part 2
In the first part of our interview with early 1970s adult film performer Orita De Chadwick, Orita spoke about the shocking events of her childhood that resulted in her fleeing to Los Angeles, a young...
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Susan Hart – Confidences and Confidence, Part 1: Podcast 149
Perhaps one of the less obvious aspects of The Rialto Report is that it may lead to the impression that people involved in the adult industry forty or fifty years ago are all pretty comfortable talking...
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Susan Hart – Confidences and Confidence, Part 2: Podcast 150
In the first part of our interview with Susan Hart, we heard about Sue’s early years in 1970s Los Angeles, growing up in a strict Catholic family, running away from home when she was 15, and becoming...
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Who was Antonio Shepherd? The Making of ‘7 Into Snowy’ (1978) and ‘Chorus...
Antonio Shepherd made two notable adult films in 1978: 7 Into Snowy and Chorus Call. They featured many of the biggest stars of the era, such as Abigail Clayton, Kay Parker, Darby Lloyd Rains, and...
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Who was Antonio Shepherd? The Making of ‘7 Into Snowy’ (1978) and ‘Chorus...
Antonio Shepherd made two notable adult films in 1978: 7 Into Snowy and Chorus Call. They featured many of the biggest stars of the era, such as Abigail Clayton, Kay Parker, Darby Lloyd Rains, and...
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Adult Film Locations – Part 18: The Bourn Identity
The Bourn Mansion. Aka The Fortress on the Hill. 2550 Webster Street, San Francisco. Picture one of the grandest mansions in San Francisco, a masterpiece of bricklayers’ and stonemasons’ arts, and for...
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Sue Flaken’s Sliding Doors – The Mystery of the Original Miss Jones
Who was the original actor cast in the lead role of the golden age blockbuster, The Devil in Miss Jones (1973)? Not Georgina Spelvin, the talented doyenne of adult films who starred in many pre-video...
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