Rita Bennett
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1635 |
| Birthday | 1941-01-26 |
| Place of Birth | Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Joanna Cunningham, Rita A. Bennett, Sarah Davenport, Elizabeth Sunburst, |
1971
Some of My Best Friends Are...
4.615/13
Regulars gather at The Blue Jay, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, to celebrate Christmas Eve 1971 with people they consider family.
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Some of My Best Friends Are...
1979
All That Jazz
7.497/595
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 col...
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All That Jazz
1966
Prostitutes Protective Society
5/9
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, bei...
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Prostitutes Protective Society
1969
Decameron '69
4/4
Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century collection of novellas known as The Decameron, this innovative film combines short works from seven dire...
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Decameron '69
1968
The Diary of Knockers McCalla
4/3
Obscure sexploitation feature charting a young girl's descent from virginal bride to total slut.
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The Diary of Knockers McCalla
1968
Come Play with Me
3.333/3
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 sexu...
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Come Play with Me
1969
Going Down for the 3rd Time
8/1
Three female spies are assigned to break up an international spy ring and liberate three of their colleagues who are being held hostages.
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Going Down for the 3rd Time
1969
Teresa... Darling
5/2
Married woman is thrown for a loop when her husband tells her that, before their recent marriage, his sexual relations were exclusively with hookers.
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Teresa... Darling
1967
The Secret Dream Models of Oliver Nibble
2/2
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...
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The Secret Dream Models of Oliver Nibble
1966
The Love Cult
4.125/8
A magician/hypnotist gets the idea that he can make more money (and have a better time) by starting a sex cult than by continuing his magic act, so he...
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The Love Cult
1980
Raging Bull
7.904/4735
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.
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Raging Bull
1967
The Sex Killer
3.625/8
A loner who works in a mannequin factory stalks and strangles women in Times Square.
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The Sex Killer
1967
Professor Lust
3.333/3
A sex-crazed Jekyll & Hyde riff wherein an elderly professor uses a maysterious chemical to turn himself into a swinger.
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Professor Lust
1964
Crazy Wild and Crazy
4/5
A photographer tries to show us in the audience how to make a nudie-cutie, only for everything to go totally wrong.
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Crazy Wild and Crazy
1970
The Projectionist
5.875/8
A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.
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The Projectionist
1969
Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name
10/1
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 und...
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Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name
1968
Vibrations
5/10
Barbara, a frustrated writer who is also sexually frustrated, seeks to recharge her life by moving into a Manhattan apartment, where she earns money t...
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Vibrations
1968
Too Much Too Often!
5/14
A male escort spirals into chaos as he navigates the dark underbelly of his hedonistic world, battling addiction and violent encounters, ultimately co...
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Too Much Too Often!
1971
Is There Sex After Death?
3.8/5
Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the w...
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Is There Sex After Death?
1967
Diary of a Swinger
2.5/4
Jeannie relates her life story to her shrink.
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Diary of a Swinger
1967
Lusting Hours
3.625/8
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...
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Lusting Hours
1968
Confessions of a Psycho Cat
5.5/8
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.
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Confessions of a Psycho Cat
1966
Sin in the City
3.667/3
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...
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Sin in the City
1967
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted
3.667/3
Sex film about a series of case study sketches collected by a man studying abnormal sexual behavior.
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File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted
1973
High Rise
8/2
A young woman in New York City goes out looking for an apartment and finds herself getting caught up in a series of sexual adventures culminating in a...
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High Rise
1973
Flying Acquaintances
3.25/8
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...
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Flying Acquaintances
1961
Nude in Charcoal
5/5
June, a beautiful, yet naive, young art student is lured into a relationship of unbridled lust by a suave older artist named Najlas Sarto.
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Nude in Charcoal
1966
The Bed and How to Make It!
5/4
The motel had 70 beds and she knew them all.
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