Mainstream and porn

Susan Hemingway was born in 1960 in Germany. She is an actress.

Monique Vita was born on 27 December 1935 in Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She is an actress, known for Bebo's Girl (1964).

Marlène Myller was born in 1948 in Paris, France. She is an actress.

Evelyne Scott was born on 29 April 1940. She is an actress and writer, known for Shining Sex (1976).

Anne Libert was born on 21 July 1946. She is an actress, known for A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973).

Karine Gambier was born in France. She is known for Caged Women (1980).

Marie-Pierre Castel was born on 5 February 1949 in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, France. She was an actress. She died on 10 February 2013 in Nîmes, France.

Béatrice Harnois was born on 14 June 1955 in Paris, France. She is an actress.

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.

Jennifer Welles was born and raised in northern New Jersey, the youngest of two daughters of a German aircraft designer and his wife who had fled when the Nazi Party rose to power. Her father left the family for another woman when Welles was nine and she never saw him again. She was raised by her very protective mother, who became a seamstress in a factory, working long hours and often leaving Welles at home alone, since her older sister had married at a young age and moved away. Welles quit high school and became a dancer in dinner theater and traveling theater troupes during the early 1950's. She soon went to Las Vegas and danced in opening acts for comedians such as Jack Benny and the comedy duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. She returned to the east coast and studied drama for a short time under Sanford Meisner. She continued dancing in stage productions and by the end of the 1960's, Welles had married professional musician Manny Duran and became involved in acting in mostly low-budget softcore sexploitation films in New York City.

In the mid-1970's, at just over forty years of age, Welles began making explicit hardcore adult films and was very successful, enjoying a large following. Although she claims her husband had no problem with this, they soon divorced and she then married a wealthy businessman named Phillip, who was about ten years younger. He lavished her with a large Tuxedo Park home and money to spend, and she left adult films by the end of the decade. They soon moved to Houston, where she became involved in raising horses. However, she was neglected by her husband and the marriage was soon over after he began an affair with another woman. Although she said in a recent interview that she is now in her seventies and living alone on much less money, she is very content in an undisclosed rural location in America with a few cats, dogs, and two horses. She says she has a few close friends, some to whom she has revealed her past, and that she attends church regularly and has no regrets for her film career.

Catherine Ringer was born on 18 October 1957 in Suresnes, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. She is an actress and composer.

Mona Heftre was born in 1953 in Condat, Gironde, France. She is an actress, known for Emmenez-moi au théâtre (1982).

Claudine Beccarie was born on 14 June 1945 in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France. She is an actress and writer.

Brigitte Maier was born in Germany in 1952, and her family moved to the US when she was four years old. At 22 she appeared in a layout in Penthouse magazine, and the next year had a spread in Playboy. She got involved in the porn business when she was the girlfriend of European porn director Lasse Braun, and starred in his first adult feature, Sensations (1975). It made her a star and launched Braun on his long and successful career. Maier made a string of porn films in Europe, alternating between big-budget features and quickie loops. She retired from the porn industry in the late 1970s, and was last reported to be living in New York City.

Tania Busselier was born on 29 June 1946 in Charlieu, Loire, France. She is an actress, known for Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977). She was previously married to Roland Lesaffre.

Françoise Beccarie was born in 1957 in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France. She is an actress.

Liliane Allan was previously married to Richard Allan.

Anna Ardizzone is known for War Goddess (1973).