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Rita Bennett
Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
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…
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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.
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1980
Raging Bull
Movie Emma - Miss 48's
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1979
All That Jazz
Movie Stripper
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1973
High Rise
Movie Stripper
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1973
Flying Acquaintances
Movie Betty
- 1971
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1971
Is There Sex After Death?
Movie Bambi Ferguson (uncredited)
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1970
The Projectionist
Movie Harem Girl (uncredited)
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1969
Teresa... Darling
Movie
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1969
Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name
Movie Go-Go Dancer
- 1969
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1969
Vibrations
Movie Georgia (uncredited)
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1969
Decameron '69
Movie
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1968
Too Much Too Often!
Movie Rita
- 1968
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1968
Confessions of a Psycho Cat
Movie Sex Inserts
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1968
Come Play with Me
Movie Clarice
More credits
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1967
Professor Lust
Movie
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1967
Diary of a Swinger
Movie Jeannie (as Joanna Cunningham)
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1967
The Sex Killer
Movie Sunbather
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1967
Lusting Hours
Movie Call Girl (uncredited)
- 1967
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1967
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted
Movie Corpse
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1966
The Bed and How to Make It!
Movie Karen
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1966
Sin in the City
Movie
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1966
Prostitutes Protective Society
Movie Prostitute
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1966
The Love Cult
Movie Cultist
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1964
Crazy Wild and Crazy
Movie Girl Running in Slow Motion (uncredited)
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1961
Nude in Charcoal
Movie Backstage Model
