Personal Info

Known For:
Acting

Birthday:
January 26, 1941

Place of Birth:
Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA

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Rita Bennett

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

Filmography

Year Movie Role
1980 Raging Bull Emma - Miss 48's
1979 All That Jazz Stripper
1973 High Rise Stripper
1973 Flying Acquaintances Betty
1971 Some of My Best Friends Are...
1971 Is There Sex After Death? Bambi Ferguson (uncredited)
1970 The Projectionist Harem Girl (uncredited)
1969 Decameron '69
1969 Going Down for the 3rd Time
1969 Teresa... Darling
1969 Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name Go-Go Dancer
1968 The Diary of Knockers McCalla
1968 Come Play with Me Clarice
1968 Vibrations Georgia (uncredited)
1968 Too Much Too Often! Rita
1968 Confessions of a Psycho Cat Sex Inserts
1967 The Secret Dream Models of Oliver Nibble
1967 The Sex Killer Sunbather
1967 Professor Lust
1967 Lusting Hours Call Girl (uncredited)
1967 Diary of a Swinger Jeannie (as Joanna Cunningham)
1967 File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted Corpse
1966 Prostitutes Protective Society Prostitute
1966 The Love Cult Cultist
1966 Sin in the City
1966 The Bed and How to Make It! Karen
1964 Crazy Wild and Crazy Girl Running in Slow Motion (uncredited)
1961 Nude in Charcoal Backstage Model
Year TV Show Role
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