Rita Bennett
Acting
Biography
Lovely, shapely, and captivating brunette Rita Bennett was born on January 26, 1941 in Glen Cove, New York. An only child, Rita grew up in a dysfunctional household in Long Island. Unhappy with her turbulent home life, Bennett focused primarily on her burgeoning comely looks as a teenager. Rita left home at age sixteen and moved into a room in a Manhattan apartment with five girls who she barely knew. Bennett soon started modeling and was featured in ads in both newspapers and magazines as well as on billboards (she even was the face of an ad campaign for a Manhattan department store). Rita appeared in her first soft-core film in 1961. Among the notable East Coast soft-core cinema directors that Bennett appeared in films for are Joseph W. Sarno, Barry Mahon, William Rose, and John Amero and Lem Amero. Outside of acting, Rita also worked as a stripper in the tri-state area on the East Coast and managed to land the occasional small role in a major mainstream movie in which she was cast to type as a stripper. Bennett quit acting and stripping in the mid-1980's and went on to focus on fashion and animal welfare instead. Alas, Rita had serious problems with alcoholism throughout her life. Bennett died in 2017. Her body was unclaimed and ultimately wound up buried in a potter's field.
Known For
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Raging Bull
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
All That Jazz
Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century collection of novellas known as The Decameron, this innovative film combines short works from seven directors who set out to interpret Boccaccio's masterwork for the modern age. The result is an assortment of titillating tales ranging from the erotic to the tragic.
Decameron '69
The motel had 70 beds and she knew them all.
The Bed and How to Make It!
Barbara, a frustrated writer who is also sexually frustrated, seeks to recharge her life by moving into a Manhattan apartment, where she earns money typing up manuscripts for other writers. Next door, a sexy young lady plays a variety of erotic games revolving around her hypnotically humming vibrator. When Julie, Barbara's hot-to-trot sister shows up, she reluctantly allows her to stay, even though memories of incestuous girlhood explorations between them cause her obvious distress.
Vibrations
Meet New York's most sexually charged circle of friends. There's the stewardess who can't wait to try every cockpit in the city. There's the cabdriver who takes beautiful women for the rides of their lives. And there's the nosey neighbors who can't get enough of the non-stop sounds of love from next door.
Flying Acquaintances
Regulars gather at The Blue Jay, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, to celebrate Christmas Eve 1971 with people they consider family.
Some of My Best Friends Are...
Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex.
Is There Sex After Death?
The film starts out B&W and shows Oliver Nibble being berated by his wife. They go to a cinema and Oliver's imagination runs wild. The film turns into color as Oliver photographs his models in various stages of dress (and undress).
The Secret Dream Models of Oliver Nibble
A deranged, wealthy woman offers $100,000 to three men if they can stay alive for 24 hours in Manhattan, and then hunts them down.
Confessions of a Psycho Cat
A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.
The Projectionist
Jan Cousins, brutally raped by her date, returns to boarding school, and there she is confronted by Clarice, a lesbian who seduces her. Jan seeks sexual fulfillment from her boyfriend, Roger, but his strict upbringing has left him with a perverse need to be spanked. Roger appeals first to a prostitute, then to Clarice, and finally to Jan for spanking, but she reacts with shock and tears. Her psychiatrist suggests that she find a normal man, but her successive dates are even more abnormal than Roger. She modifies her standards of normality and begins to accept all types of behaviour. She does some research on flagellation, whips Roger, and finally achieves sexual satisfaction.
Come Play with Me
Presented as an inquiry into the ways of lust, this film is staged as a documentary. It moves from rural prostitution (the roadhouse) to pornographers, then on to streetwalkers, male hustlers, and high-class call girls. The madam runs the bordello, she depends on the photographer to supply her with pornography; he's in the city, using his camera to lead him into depravity. The streetwalkers risk arrest from the cops and abuse from the johns. Even the call girls have a tough time: from their expenses to their lack of self-reflection. Their motto: "Live fast, die young, and make a beautiful corpse."
Lusting Hours
A pretty young girl arrives in New York City to make it in "the Big Apple", but winds up getting involved with lesbians, an escort service and the underground bondage scene.
Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name
Three female spies are assigned to break up an international spy ring and liberate three of their colleagues who are being held hostages.
Going Down for the 3rd Time
Madame Sue runs a successful Prostitute operation in the heart of NYC, and as it should happen, The Mob wants to get a piece of the action. Still, being the go ahead women they are, they decide to fight back and keep themselves independent of any outsider business influence.
Prostitutes Protective Society
Three girls head from boarding school to NYC, arriving by bus at Port Authority and vowing to "get into trouble." These "girls gone wild" forerunners head to a Greenwich Village bar where they copycat a girl stripping to dance topless atop the bar, then head to a Village party and finally crash a posh uptown party before catching the bus home.
Sin in the City
A male escort spirals into chaos as he navigates the dark underbelly of his hedonistic world, battling addiction and violent encounters, ultimately confronting the cost of his choices in a desperate bid for redemption.
Too Much Too Often!
Sex film about a series of case study sketches collected by a man studying abnormal sexual behavior.
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted
A photographer tries to show us in the audience how to make a nudie-cutie, only for everything to go totally wrong.