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Jennifer Welles: The Lady Vanishes – Podcast 03


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On this episode of The Rialto Report, Jennifer Welles breaks a 35 year silence to speak publicly about her life and career in films.

This episode running time is 51 minutes.

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“Whatever happened to” is a question that is often asked in relation to the stars of the golden age. But seriously: whatever happened to Jennifer Welles?

One moment she was appearing in a string of highly successful films that culminated in the box office smash Inside Jennifer Welles, and then suddenly she was gone.

Formerly close friends and colleagues, and even her ex-husband all told a similar story of how her disappearance was as complete as it was sudden. The story circulated that she had made it clear that no one should attempt to find her.

How could someone whose image had been so prominently splashed across billboards and the pages of magazines have vanished into thin air? Where has she been for the last four decades?

The answers are revealed in this episode of The Rialto Report.

 

From Jennifer Welles Wikipedia page:

Jennifer Welles (born c. 1933) is an American former pornographic actress in films of the 1970s, although she began her acting career in the late 1960s in the softcore sexploitation genre and “roughie” grindhouse films produced in New York. Some of these include: Sex by Advertisement (1967), Career Bed, Submission, and This Sporting House, by pornographic film director Henri Pachard (all from 1969).

Career

Welles was also a fetish magazine model for such magazines as Bizarre while using the stage name “Liza Duran”.

Welles appeared in many films, the best known being Inside Jennifer Welles (1977), which she is also credited with having directed (although the film was actually anonymously directed by sex-exploitation veteran Joseph W. Sarno). She also appeared in some mainstream films, most notably The Groove Tube opposite Chevy Chase.

Awards

Welles won the Erotica Award for Best Actress in 1977 for the film Little Orphan Sammy, and she was the editor of Eros, The Magazine of Decadent Sophistication in that same year. She became a member of the AVN Hall of Fame in 1996.

Personal life

Welles left the industry abruptly in 1978 after she married a wealthy fan.

 

Jennifer Welles photographs and articles:

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