Biografia

14 ottobre 1936 · Park Ridge, New Jersey, Stati Uniti

28 gennaio 2020 · Las Vegas, Nevada, Stati Uniti (Pancreatic cancer)

Dorothy Ann Seib

1,70 m

Voluptuous bombshell figure

Began, but did not complete, her studies for her degree in Anthropology at UCLA. Instead, after ten years of acting, she received her Ph.D. in Comparative Religions.

Is an ordained minister alongside her husband Howard Maurer in Las Vegas, NV. They provide scenic outdoor weddings as an alternative to a traditional wedding chapel.

Has provided voiceovers for documentaries and industrial films.

Profiled in "Adult Movie Superstars - Volume One: Golden Age Photos" by Jack Hunter.

A wonderfully funny letter was sent to me signed by a fraternity in Boston, Massachusetts medical school. The fraternity for doctors had voted me the body on which they would most like to operate.

It was a chance to put my craft to work. Even so, my Jewish friends were appalled that I would appear in such a film. My husband is Jewish and he went nuts when he first read the script. But as an actress I didn't think about that. I was just playing a role. It was a job to me and I did the best I could with it. I never tried to glorify Ilsa. I felt she was a character to pity, rather than to emulate. I wanted to show the truth about her.

If you do too good a job of playing a villain, you will suffer for it. Well-known friends of mine in the industry reprimanded me for it. They said the film would hurt my Hollywood career and that people would hate me personally for playing Ilsa -- and they were right. It caused me to lose a good deal of film work. I could no longer get in to see the major studio casting directors and I couldn't even get an agent to represent me. They were scared to handle me.

There have been so many broken hopes and false promises in my career. But I just keep on keeping on. It's my versatility that has kept me alive -- not necessarily my talent, but my willingness to try anything. I know I've brought pleasure to a certain group of people. If I had been in more conventional Hollywood films, perhaps I would have been lost in the shuffle.

[on the subject of the best and worst aspects of playing Ilsa] Well, we didn't rehearse at all, so that was difficult at times. There was a lot of stress, but it was really cool learning how to shoot a gun. I went to target practice!