East Coast Grindhouse: Part 7

Here is the outcome of my attempt to find all the remaining Gigi Darlene performances

The Beast That Killed Women

1965

We have Gigi (and Marlene Eck and somebody else) in The Beast That Killed Women, where she plays something other than a nude model or nudist.  So, okay, its a nekkid gal in a dormitory and that's just fine by all of us.

Gigi Darlene



Marlene Eck



Gigi and Marlene



Gigi an an unknown

Nudes Inc.

1964

Gigi then she goes runnin' home to mama in Nudes Inc., in which she plays a model who poses all topless-like for the camera.

 

 
Then we have two movies - and here I use the word loosely and generously - with the same plot (again, loose and generous).

Crazy Wild and Crazy

1965

Take a bunch of out-takes and clips from nudist camp reels and use voice-over by a guy who owns a movie camera and uses it exclusively to film nekkid women, throw them together in a way that approaches the random and voila!  You have yourself something that you can call Crazy Wild and Crazy.  Among the filmed women are Gigi Darlene,

her close friend Darlene Bennett, Darlene's sister Dawn

Darlene Bennett



Dawn Bennett



both Bennetts

and Anna Karol (from Sex Perils of Paulette).



You also get Dolores Carlos,



Marlene Eck



and Sandy Sinclair,

... all three of whom do topless as well as anyone ever has.  And those are just the women I recognized.  A few dozen more I did not.  The movie is pure crap but it is difficult to get pissy with something that brings you Gigi and her friends.

International Smorgas-broad

1964

The second movie has the title, International Smorgas-broad.  Same premise as Crazy Wild, with the clips coming from nude modeling sessions and the glue that holds them all together is a Swedish chef or some such fella.  Don't ask - it is just as stupid as it sounds.  This one also has Darlene Bennett

and Delores Carlos;

and it has Louise (Bunny) Downe, who appeared in more than a couple of nudist camp movies about the same time.

The star of it all, if you count screen time, is veteran nude model, Carol Baughman



(I included some still photos of her to show how good she looked back in the day).

 

And there are two odd additions to Smorgas-broad.  Or more properly, there is one addition and one subtraction.  The addition is Juliet Anderson, who at the age of 25 or 26 shows off her attractive assets.

What makes her unusual is Juliet's subsequent path, for she disappeared from movies only to return 15 years later as a pornstar named Aunt Peg.  Yup, this is Aunt Peg in her salad days.

The subtraction for this film is Gigi Darlene.  The very slim credits at the beginning of this mess advertise Gigi, the German Bombshell as a member of the cast.  Someone at IMDb took this to mean that somewhere in the dozens of unnamed models (see the collage)

... is Gigi Darlene.  Nope. Naw,  Huh uh, No siree. Neither hide nor hair.  Neither face nor bod, both of which I kinda sorta recognize by now.  Gigi ain't in this movie, which makes it a thorough waste of anyone's time. 

Unsatisfied

1964, with scenes tacked on to a Spanish film released in 1961

The last of the Gigi Darlene movies I've been able to find was called Unsatisfied when released in the US in 1964 but bore the title Juventud a la intemperie in 1961's Spanish release.

Gigi and Sheila Britt are topless in a clip inserted for US release.

Gigi

Sheila

 



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Where are we, then, in the search for all things Gigi?  If we figure there are no other errors in her IMDb listing - nothing left out and nothing improperly added - the Funhouse now has caps and clips of 25 of Gigi's 28 performances.  That ain't too shabby.