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