Cheri Caffaro

Cheri Caffaro
NationalityAmerican
OccupationActress
Years active1971–1977
Spouse
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(m. 1971; div. 1982)​

Cheri Caffaro is an American actress who appeared mainly in low-budget exploitation films in the 1970s.[1][2]

Career

In 1960, a fifteen-year-old Pasadena resident, she won a Life-magazine-reported Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest,[3] beating a twelve-year-old Portland Mason.[4]

In the early 1970s, she was directed by then-husband and Manhattan theatre owner Don Schain in a series of softcore sexploitation action films,[5] most notably the "Ginger" trilogy, consisting of Ginger, The Abductors[6][7][8] and Girls Are For Loving. Caffaro played Ginger McAllister, a tough and resourceful bed-hopping private-eye and spy. Her missions involved busting up seedy wrongdoers involved in drugs, prostitution and white slavery. Her character also spends an inordinate amount of time bound and gagged[9] and/or raped.[10][11][12]

Caffaro also appeared in A Place Called Today and Too Hot To Handle[13] (both also directed by Schain). She was quickly stereotyped, became disenchanted with the direction her film career had taken and disappeared from the public eye.[citation needed]

She has also been credited with an appearance on the TV show Baretta, and as a writer and producer of the 1979 sex comedy H.O.T.S. Her last screen credit is noted as a character voice in an episode of the 1997 animated TV series Extreme Ghostbusters.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Official website of Cheri Caffaro".
  2. ^ "Article clipped from Tampa Bay Times". Tampa Bay Times. June 1, 1979. p. 59. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
  3. ^ "Carroll Baker". Life Magazine. November 28, 1960. Retrieved June 19, 2022 – via Old Life Magazines. Facsimiles of Bardot, a fun article about a Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest with Robin Nile, Cheri Caffaro, the winner.
  4. ^ "Kids Win a BB Match". Life. Time Inc. December 5, 1960. p. 65. Retrieved June 19, 2022. via google books
  5. ^ Means, Sean P. "Don Schain, producer behind 'High School Musical,' Utah's movie industry, dies at 74". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
  6. ^ Canby, Vincent (January 29, 1972). "The Screen:'The Abductors' Begins Run at the DeMille". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
  7. ^ Craig, Rob (March 5, 2019). American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-6631-0.
  8. ^ Clark, Randall (December 17, 2013). At a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-92908-6.
  9. ^ Piselli, Stefano; Morocchi, Riccardo (2003). Sexy Eroine: Erotic Heroines in Movies (in Italian). Glittering images. ISBN 978-88-8275-043-5.
  10. ^ McMurtry, Larry (June 2010). Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood. Simon and Schuster. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-4391-2970-8.
  11. ^ Meyers, Ric (2011). For One Week Only: The World of Exploitation Films. Eirini Press. ISBN 978-0-9799989-3-5.
  12. ^ Filmfacts. Division of Cinema of the University of Southern California. 1972.
  13. ^ Doupe', Tyler (June 14, 2022). "These 5 Under-Seen Exploitation Efforts are a Brutal, Sleazy Good Time". Dread Central. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
  14. ^ Donlon, Jon Griffin (December 5, 2013). Bayou Country Bloodsport: The Culture of Cockfighting in Southern Louisiana. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-7247-5.