Maria Tortuga
Acting
Biography
Maria Tortuga was born on September 14, 1949 in Seattle, Washington. Her mother was a member of the first Mexican folk dance company in the United States. Maria grew up in a family with three other siblings. Following graduation from high school Tortuga moved to California to pursue her interest in conceptual art. Maria studied with feminist artist Judy Chicago at the nonprofit arts and education center the Woman's Building in Los Angeles. In addition, Tortuga also studied both Spanish and flamenco dancing with renowned performer Roberto Amaral in the late 1970's as well as served as the flamenco soloist in the Layalina Folkloric Ensemble. After graduating with an MFA, Maria went on to work for many years as the principal designer at local carpet mills. Tortuga decided to supplement her income and express herself sexually by doing hardcore loops and modeling for assorted men's magazines (she often posed for photos with a bondage motif). Maria began appearing in explicit hardcore movies in the late 1970's; among the notable adult cinema directors she worked for are Gerard Damiano, William Margold, Don Christian, David Worth, Ed De Priest, Alan Colberg, and Vinnie Rossi. After retiring from the adult film industry in 1987, Maria decided to follow her key passion for dancing full time by moving to Chicago, Illinois and changing her name to Maria Gitana. Tortuga studied with the Spanish Dance Society and traveled over to Europe to dance for a while at Amor de Dios with Maria Magdalena, who was the Ballet Mistress of the Ballet Nacional de Espana. Maria was awarded a grant to study classical Spanish dance with Spanish Dance Society founding member Dame Marina Keet in 1992. After achieving the status of Maestra de Baile with the Spanish Dance Society, Tortuga returned to Chicago and started the flamenco dance troupe Manteca Colora. Maria moved back to her home state of Washington to be closer to her aging parents in 1998 and started the performing dance troupe Flamenco Gitana in 2004. Moreover, Tortuga taught dance and pilates at several local schools and community centers. Starting in 2010 Maria was the recipient of several Youth Arts Awards from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture Affairs. Tortuga used the associated grant to establish cultural arts programs in flamenco dance at local youth centers. Maria also did the choreography for a number of local theater productions. Tortuga died from cancer at age 65 on November 3, 2014.
Known For
A group of women do nude aerobics.
Nude Aerobics
Inside auditions with over 40 erotic film stars who didn’t know why they were being filmed!
What Would Your Mother Say?
Maria Tortuga and Melanie Scott are a pair of unlikely sisters who get into all manner of sexy hijinks. Trouble looms when Maria refuses to look for a job and gets so behind on rent that the pair are evicted from their apartment.
I Wanna Be Teased!
These girls know the intimate details of the taxi business, that's how they're seducing fares away from the local cabbies of LA. In retribution the cabbies capture one of the girls. So what are hot sultry taxi girls to do? Why call on their nymphet French connection of course. Watch as these ladies cum all over town fucking and sucking everyone to find their missing girl.
Taxi Girls 2
Susie writhes around naked on her bed talking dirty. She also introduces us to some of her horny friends. Meet Janice and Mike, Ann and Marty, Donna and Dean, Maria and Dan, Toby and Roy, and Jeanie and Marty, couples with only one thing on their mind – coitus interruptus.
Susie's Bed
Classic porn of the early 80s.
Love Goddesses
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Remember Connie
The legend returns. The long awaited missing films of John Holmes from the golden age of adult entertainment. The one and only John Holmes returns in this long awaited collection of classic erotic. Adam and eve is proud to present the King, "John Holmes" in an explosive look at some of the greatest adult entertainment ever filmed.
John Holmes: The Lost Tapes
The very best in Sapphic lust is featured as horny harem muff-drive maidens pearl-dive with each other. Loving touches, compassionate caresses, and tender kisses are matched by the lewdest tongue lashers on video. Unmatched in Europhic ecstasy. "Loving Lesbos" offers the girl on girl fancier a real treat in pure passion!
Loving Lesbos
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The Vanessa Obsession
Set in the renaissance era, this prequel finds the great lover battling villains and saving maidens in a variety of hilarious experiences.
The New Erotic Adventures of Casanova 2
Young Tawny was a delicious teen starlet with a killer smile and a set of nice perky little breasts. Her long blonde hair perfectly set off Tawny's petite and lean figure, making her one of the hottest looks in early 80's porn. Tawny was always a red-hot performer, willing to engage in any sort of wild sexual activity. She was an enthusiastic participant in lots of the standard early 80's end-the-film-with-a-wild-orgy sequences, always standing out as the most energetic woman out there. This dynamite collection contains many of Tawny's early, sought after Limited Edition and Rolls Royce loop releases titled Disco Girls, Roller Derby, Teacher's Pet, Anal Express, Two Mouth's Full and Young Girls in Love (anal)! Plus hot scenes from feature films Sexual Heights, Extremes and more!
Tawny Pearl Collection
The guys in the 'I Phelta Thi' fraternity want to live out all their fantasies before they graduate.
Frat House
Magazine mogul, Hugh Heffer, sends private eye Ginger Trueheart on a sex-sizzling search through San Francisco's infamous "Tenderloin" district. It seems that Mr. Heffer is looking for a missing enchantress who is "the best in the world".
Never So Deep
A young woman gets hold of a magic mask, and it brings her back to her previous life in the Middle Ages as a sorceress, in which she seduces knights, maidens and various combinations of both.
Pleasure Dome
A group of students go on an excursion in the country to a castle for a lab course in sex education. Once there, they are subject to the whims of the owners of the castle.
Intimate Lessons
Throughout history one name, by its very mention, has been able to not only strike fear but also electrify man's sexual desire. Songs have been written about her, books recount her cunning. Her name, of course is Jezebel. Able to lure men and women into her evil web of passion, Jezebel intoxicates with her beauty, destroys with her guile. And so it is with our modern day enchantress. Things were not always this way...the transformation came about through a mysterious figure that suddenly appears before her in a spectacular flash of light & color. He promises to fulfill her every sexual fantasy & experience every erotic pleasure known to man. However, she must pay the price for causing such anguish!
Jezebel
Here's the pitch - 12 of the most beautiful, talented women ever to play ball, 24 of the most incredible breasts to ever hide in a wet T-shirt. 10 of the most handsome, virile men ever seen in an adult movie. The top-in-line in anyone's double-header, it's a home run guaranteed to make everyone score! Beautiful Lolita, queen of all the hookers, incarcerated in the city jail, finds more thrills than bargained for when she aggressively solicits her warden for improved jail conditions. She finds the sex starved public servant has one goal - to be governor - and has spent the jail refurbishing funds for his campaign. Lolita and the warden decide to have a "whing ding" of a baseball game to refill the jail fund and to quell his desires. The burly studs of Cellblock B, a melee that contests brawn against brains, and bawdy bodies, see the Beavers against the Dicks, it's a game you'll never forget and a ballgame played like you've never seen before!
Ballgame
The evil Nocturna Vigil and her hot hit girl Tasi Delite steal some sexually incriminating microfilm from the Soviet Embassy. Called to the London office, James Bomb must retrieve the microfilm in "Operation Thunderpussy".
For Services Rendered
An electrifying mix of beautiful women, superb photography, and non-stop sex combine to make this one outstanding lesbian extravaganza! With foxy K.C. Valentine and Maria Tortuga as her orally adept guide, we are introduced to an exciting, enticing world of girl/girl gropefests that would make Sappho herself anxious to join in on the fun. Thirteen of the sexiest ladies in the biz -- including Becky Savage, Angel Cash and Cherry Adams -- devour each other's ripe, sensual bodies in every conceivable way. Filled with naturally alluring, naughtily nubile beauties, this all-girl erotic extravaganza is sure to please any fan of red-hot lesbian liaisons. 'A Lacy Affair' is definitely one to remember