Rebecca Brooke

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Rebecca Brooke

Acting February 21, 1952

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Mary Mendum was born on February 21, 1952. She grew up in a poor family outside of Chicago. She began her acting career in the early '70s in stage productions of her then boyfrien…

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The Image

The Image

6.7 1975 Movie
Confessions of a Young American Housewife

Confessions of a Young American Housewife

5.8 1974 Movie
The Groove Tube

The Groove Tube

5.1 1974 Movie
Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town

Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town

5.6 1975 Movie
Laura's Toys

Laura's Toys

5.2 1975 Movie
Mrs. Barrington

Mrs. Barrington

3.8 1974 Movie
Misty

Misty

4.9 1976 Movie
The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego

The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego

4.8 1974 Movie
Felicia

Felicia

4.5 1975 Movie
The Night They Robbed Big Bertha's

The Night They Robbed Big Bertha's

6.0 1975 Movie
Little Girl, Big Tease

Little Girl, Big Tease

4.1 1976 Movie
The Blazer Girls

The Blazer Girls

3.9 1975 Movie

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Mary Mendum was born on February 21, 1952. She grew up in a poor family outside of Chicago. She began her acting career in the early '70s in stage productions of her then boyfriend Michael Butler such as "Hair" and "Lenny". Mendum started appearing in movies with small parts in adult pictures for director Chuck Vincent and posed for nude layouts in a few prominent men's magazines. She achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with her outstanding portrayal of Anne in Radley Metzger's movie The Image (1975). Mary excelled in starring roles as often frustrated characters in several excellent Joseph W. Sarno softcore gems in the mid-1970s like Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974), Laura's Toys (1975) and Abigail Lesley Is Back in Town (1975). She further demonstrated her remarkable range and talent as an actress with her delightful comic turn as both meek and repressed chemist Dr. Shirley Jekyll and her more uninhibited and sexually aggressive alter ego Sherry Hyde in the amusing tongue-in-cheek romp The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego (1974). Outside of acting, Mary was a gifted cook and seamstress. Alas, Mary Mendum called it a day as an actress in 1977. On July 17, 2012, she died in Boca Raton, FL, of an accidental drowning due to a fall.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2021
    Overdose

    Movie (archive)

  2. 1977
    Cherry Hill High

    Movie Motorcyclist

  3. 1976
    Misty

    Movie Melissa 'Misty' Smith

  4. 1976
    Bang Bang You Got It!

    Movie Victim / Betty Anderson

  5. 1976
    Little Girl, Big Tease

    Movie Alva Coward

  6. 1975
    Felicia

    Movie Gabrielle

  7. 1975
    The Image

    Movie Anne

  8. 1975
    Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town

    Movie Priscilla Howe

  9. 1975
    The Night They Robbed Big Bertha's

    Movie Veronica

  10. 1975
    The Blazer Girls

    Movie Pam (as Rebecca Brooke)

  11. 1975
    Laura's Toys

    Movie Laura

  12. 1974
    The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego

    Movie Dr. Shirley Jekyll / Shirley Hyde (as Veronica Parrish)

  13. 1974
    The Groove Tube

    Movie Sex Olympics

  14. 1974
    Confessions of a Young American Housewife

    Movie Carol

  15. 1974
    Mrs. Barrington

    Movie Esther Harrison

  16. 1974
    Happily Ever After

    Movie The Bride

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  1. 1973
    Grace's Place

    Movie Donna DiJon