Russ Meyer
Born	Russell Albion Meyer March 21, 1922(1922-03-21) Oakland, California
Died	September 18, 2004 (aged 82) Hollywood Hills, California
Spouse(s)	Betty Valdovinos Eve Meyer (1952-1969) Edy Williams (1970-1975)

Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 – September 18, 2004), was an American motion picture director and photographer. Events 630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. A photographer is a person who takes a Photograph using a Camera.

Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted actresses. Sexploitation or "sex-exploitation" describe a class of independently produced Low budget feature films generally associated with the 1960s and serving largely as

Contents 1 Early years 2 Film career 3 Use of satire 4 Big breast fixation, or the Meyer physical archetype 5 Female empowerment 6 Personal and family life 7 Final years 8 Selected filmography 9 Notes 10 References 11 External links

Early years

Russ Meyer was born in San Leandro, California to William Arthur Meyer, a German-American police officer father and Lydia Lucinda Hauck Howe, a homemaker. San Leandro is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. German Americans ( German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of Ethnic German ancestry His parents divorced shortly after his birth and he was to have virtually no contact with his father during his life. When he was 14, his mother pawned her wedding ring in order to buy him an 8mm film camera. A pawnbroker is an individual or business entity that offers monetary loans in exchange for an item of value to the given pawn broker 8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the filmstrip is eight Millimeters wide He made a number of amateur films at the age of 15, and served during World War II as a U.S. Army combat cameraman for the 166th Signal Photo Company. Amateur Film is the low-budget Hobbyist art of Film practiced for passion and enjoyment and not for Business purposes World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. It was there that Meyer would forge his strongest friendships and ask many of his fellow combat cameramen to work with him on his future films. Much of Meyer's work during World War II can be seen in newsreels and Patton (1971). World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including A newsreel is a Documentary film that is regularly released in a public presentation place containing filmed News stories Patton (UK Patton Lust for Glory) is a 1970 biography drama War film, which tells the story of General George S ^[1] Upon returning to civilian life, he made industrial films and became a well known glamour photographer, which included work for Hugh Hefner's newly launched Playboy magazine. Sponsored film, or ephemeral film, as defined by film archivist Rick Prelinger, is film made by a particular sponsor for a specific purpose other than as a work of Glamour photography is the photographing of a model with the emphasis on the subject Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9 1926 is an American Magazine Publisher, and best known as the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine Playboy is an American Men's magazine, founded in Chicago Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates which has grown into Playboy Meyer would shoot three Playboy centerfolds during its early years, one of which included his wife Eve Meyer in 1955 and a pictorial of then-wife Edy Williams in March 1973. The centerfold of a Magazine refers to a Picture printed on a single sheet of paper and inserted in the middle of the publication Eve Meyer (December 13 1928 - March 27 1977 was an American Pin-up model, motion picture actor and later Film producer. Edwina Beth Williams (born July 9, 1942) is an American television and film actress. ^[2]

Film career

His first feature, the nudist comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959), cost $24,000 to produce and eventually grossed more than $1,000,000 on the independent/exploitation circuit, ensconcing Meyer as "King of the Nudies. Naturism or nudism is a cultural and Political movement advocating and defending social Nudity in private and in public. The Immoral Mr Teas (1959 is the first commercially successful film of director Russ Meyer. " Over the next decade, he made nearly twenty movies with a trademark blend of warped humor, huge-breasted starlets and All-American sleaze, including such notable films as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) and Vixen! (1968). Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1965 film directed by Russ Meyer, who also wrote the script with Jack Moran Vixen! is a 1968 satiric Softcore Sexploitation film directed by American motion picture director Russ Meyer was a true auteur who wrote, directed, edited, photographed and distributed all his own films. He was able to finance each new film from the proceeds of the earlier ones, and became very wealthy in the process. ^[3] And unlike many independent directors of his era he chose to cast actresses like Shari Eubank or Cynthia Myers who were considered extremely beautiful and wholesome. Shari Eubank (born June 12, 1947 in Albuquerque New Mexico, U Cynthia Myers (born September 12 1950 in Toledo Ohio) is an American model and actress, and Playboy magazine's ^[4]

Meyer's output can be divided into several eras. Earlier works like The Immoral Mr. Teas, Eve and the Handyman, and the Western-themed Wild Gals of the Naked West were stylistically similar to the "nudie-cutie" fare of the era, though separated from the pack by their superior color cinematography. The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. 1964's Lorna saw the ever economical director revert to black-and-white; with this change came a greater emphasis on storyline, almost theatrical violence, domineeringly psychosexual women, and their insipid male counterparts. Lorna is a 1964 film by Russ Meyer. Shot mainly on the small main street that runs through the town of Locke California in September 1963 this The "Gothic" period (as it was termed by Meyer) reached its apex with the commercially underwhelming Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, which would eventually be reclaimed as a cult classic. The goth subculture is a contemporary Subculture found in many countries It has a following all over the world and has inspired countless imitations, music videos and tributes. A music video is a Short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music most commonly a Song with lyrics

After producing the popular mockumentary Mondo Topless (1966) with the remnants of his production company's assets and two mildly successful color melodramas, Meyer made headlines once again in 1968 with the controversial Vixen!. Mockumentary (also known as a pseudo-documentary) a Portmanteau of Mock and documentary, is a film and TV Genre, or a single work Mondo Topless is a 1966 Pseudo documentary directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Babette Bardot and Lorna Maitland among others Although its lesbian overtones are extremely tame by today's standards, the film — designed by Meyer and longtime cohort Jim Ryan as a reaction to provocative European art films — grossed millions on a five-figure budget and captured the zeitgeist just as The Immoral Mr. Teas had a decade earlier. He followed it up with Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970), which depended upon montages of the California landscape (replete with anti-marijuana voiceovers) and Uschi Digard dancing in the desert as the film's "lost soul. Cherry Harry & Raquel! is a 1970 Soft core Exploitation film produced and directed by American film director Cannabis, also known as marijuana or marihuana, or ganja (from Hindi / Sanskrit: गांजा gānjā hemp) is a Uschi Digard (born August 15, 1948 in the near Stockholm town of Saltsjö-Duvnäs in Sweden and raised in Scandinavia " This plot device was necessitated after the lead actress, Linda Ashton, left the shoot early and there was 20 minutes of footage needed to complete the film. ^[5]

Reeling from the success of Easy Rider and impressed by his thrifty attitude, 20th Century Fox signed Meyer to produce and direct a long-simmering proposed sequel to Valley of the Dolls. Roger Joseph Ebert (iːbɝt born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and Screenwriter. Easy Rider, a 1969 American Road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern. Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 American Drama film based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Jacqueline Susann What eventually manifested was Beyond the Valley of the Dolls(1970), scripted by film critic (and Meyer devotee) Roger Ebert and bearing no relation to the novel or film's continuity (necessitated by a lawsuit involving Jacqueline Susann). Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American musical comedy Film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Erica Gavin Roger Joseph Ebert (iːbɝt born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and Screenwriter. Jacqueline Susann ( August 20, 1918, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania &ndash September 21, 1974, New York City Many critics perceive the film as perhaps the greatest expression of his intentionally vapid surrealism — Meyer went so far as to refer to it as his definitive work in several interviews. Others, such as Variety, saw "BVD" "as funny as a burning orphanage and a treat for the emotionally retarded. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman "^[6] Contractually stipulated to produce an R-rated film, the brutally violent climax (depicting a decapitation) ensured an X rating. Though disowned by the studio for years to come and amid gripes from the director after he attempted to recut the film to include more titillating scenes after the ratings debacle, it still earned over $6 million domestically in the United States on a budget of less than $1 million.

After making his most subdued film, an adaptation of the popular Irving Wallace novel The Seven Minutes (1971), Meyer returned to grindhouse-style cinema in 1973 with the Blaxploitation period piece Black Snake, which was dismissed by critics and audiences as incoherent. Irving Wallace ( March 19, 1916 - June 29, 1990) was an American bestselling Author The Seven Minutes is 1971 Drama film directed and produced by Russ Meyer. A grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed Exploitation films. Blaxploitation is a Film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many Exploitation films were made that targeted the urban Black Snake is a 1973 film directed by Russ Meyer. It was Meyer's first film after returning to self financed projects following the end of his deal at In 1975, he released Supervixens, a return to the world of big bosoms, square jaws, and the Mojave desert that earned $17 million (American) on a shoestring budget. Supervixens is a 1975 Sexploitation Satire by American filmmaker Russ Meyer. Meyer's theatrical career ended with the release of the surreal Up! (1976) and 1979's Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, his most sexually graphic films. Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens ( 1979) is a satirical Sexploitation Film starring Kitten Natividad and Ann Film historians and fans have called these last three films "Bustoons" because Russ Meyer's usage of color and mise en scène recalled larger than life pop art settings and cartoonish characters. Mise-en-scène (mizɑ̃sɛn is an expression used in the theatre and film worlds to describe the design aspects of a production Pop Art is a visual Art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. The word cartoon has various meanings based on several very different forms of Visual art and Illustration. ^[7]

Despite the fact that hardcore pornographic films would overtake Meyer's softcore market share, he retired in the late 1970s a very wealthy man. Pornographic films are Motion pictures with the purpose of promoting sexual arousal in the viewer often featuring depictions of sexual activity ^[8]

Use of satire

Russ Meyer was also adept at mocking moral stereotypes and actively lampooning conservative American values. A stereotype (from Greek: stereo + týpos = "solid impression" is a generalized perception of first impressions behaviors presumed by a group The development of the culture of the United States of America — music, cinema, dance, architecture, literature, poetry Many of his films feature a narrator who attempts to give the audience a "moral roadmap" of what they are watching. Like contemporary Terry Southern, Meyer realized that sex — as one of the few common interests among most humans — was a natural vehicle for satirizing values and conventions held by the Greatest Generation. Terry Southern ( May 1, 1924 &ndash October 29, 1995) was a highly influential American short story writer novelist essayist screenwriter The Greatest Generation is a term for those Americans who fought in World War II, as well as those who kept the Home front intact during it According to Roger Ebert in a commentary recorded for the DVD release of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Meyer continually reiterated that this irreverence was the true secret to his artistic success. Roger Joseph Ebert (iːbɝt born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and Screenwriter.

Meyer's art is an example of the venerable Menippean satire, a difficult genre to define — roughly, it combines disparate forms such as prose and verse, theatre and film (think Lavonia and Semper Fidelis making love in heroic couplets or Kitten Natividad as the Greek Chorus in Up!), all of the time maintaining a healthy disregard for all forms of authority: religious/moral, legal, political, and last but not least, the authority of the established aesthetic tradition. Menippean satire is a term broadly used to refer to Prose Satires that are rhapsodic in nature combining many different targets of Ridicule into Kitten Natividad (born Francesca Isabel Natividad on February 14, 1948) is a Mexican American film actress and Exotic dancer, The Greek chorus ( choros) is believed to have grown out of the Greek Dithyrambs and Tragikon drama in tragic plays of the ancient ^[9]

Meyer was also known for his quick wit. While participating with Ebert in a panel discussion at Yale University, he was confronted by an angry woman who accused him of being "nothing but a breast man. Breast fetishism (also known as mastofact, breast partialism, or mazophilia) is a type of sexual preference " His immediate reply: "That's only the half of it. "^[10]

Big breast fixation, or the Meyer physical archetype

Russ Meyer's lifelong unabashed fixation on large breasts would feature prominently in all his films and is his most well known character trait as both an artist and a person. His discoveries include Kitten Natividad, Erica Gavin, Lorna Maitland, Tura Satana and Uschi Digard among many others. Kitten Natividad (born Francesca Isabel Natividad on February 14, 1948) is a Mexican American film actress and Exotic dancer, Erica Gavin, (born Donna Graff on July 22, 1947 in Los Angeles California) is an American film actress best known for playing Lorna Maitland (born November 19, 1943) is a film actress noted mostly for her large-breasted figure and appearances in three Russ Meyer films Tura Satana, born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi July 10, 1938 in Hokkaidō, Japan, is a Uschi Digard (born August 15, 1948 in the near Stockholm town of Saltsjö-Duvnäs in Sweden and raised in Scandinavia The majority of his discoveries were naturally large breasted and he occasionally cast women in their first trimesters of pregnancy as it enhanced their breast size even further. ^[11]

Rarely were there cosmetically enhanced breasts in any of his films until Up! (1976) and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979). Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens ( 1979) is a satirical Sexploitation Film starring Kitten Natividad and Ann However, by the early 1980s, when surgical advancements had made the gargantuan breasts of Meyer's fantasies a reality, many felt he had started viewing the female body as simply a "tit transportation device"^[12] and that his aesthetic vision was no longer attractive or vibrant. Darlene Gray, a natural 36H-22-33 from Great Britain, who appeared in Mondo Topless (1966) is said to be Russ Meyer's most busty discovery. Darlene Gray is a stripper and actress who appeared in Russ Meyer's 1966 film Mondo Topless. See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands Mondo Topless is a 1966 Pseudo documentary directed by Russ Meyer, featuring Babette Bardot and Lorna Maitland among others ^[13]

The Russ Meyer female physical archetype is fairly complex to decipher. Firstly, it's not to be confused with today's surgically enhanced Hollywood porn starlets or even slim, naturally endowed actresses. Pornography or porn is the explicit depiction of Sexual subject matter with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer Russ Meyer was almost as much about a shapely 1950s hip-to-waist ratio or "wasp waist" as he was about very large breasts. Waist-hip ratio or Waist-to-hip ratio ( WHR) is the Ratio of the circumference of the Waist to that of the Hips It is calculated by Wasp waist refers to a silhouette given by a style of Corset and Girdle, that has experienced various periods of popularity in the 19th and 20th centuries The six-pack abdominal muscles and built-up squarish appearance of modern Hollywood figures do not mesh with his pin-up aesthetic. The human abdomen (from the Latin word meaning "belly" is the part of the body between the Pelvis and the thorax. ^{[14] [15] [16]} Secondly, he also required that even his most busty actress have the ability to look good braless; "gravity-defying" and "cantilevered" became two of his favorite expressions. A cantilever is a beam supported on only one end The beam carries the load to the support where it is resisted by moment and Shear stress. ^[17]

In his films such as Vixen! and Cherry, Harry & Raquel! some of the actresses do not have large (by Russ Meyer standards) breasts yet their chests are always accentuated with very clever camera angles and well constructed bras. Vixen! is a 1968 satiric Softcore Sexploitation film directed by American motion picture director Cherry Harry & Raquel! is a 1970 Soft core Exploitation film produced and directed by American film director Reportedly, Gavin was cast as the lead in Vixen! because her "smaller" bust would make the character "more relatable to women". "^[18]

He went on record numerous times to say that Anita Ekberg was the most beautiful woman he ever photographed and that her 39DD breasts were the biggest in A-list Hollywood history, dwarfing both Jayne Mansfield and the British actress Sabrina. Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg (born on September 29 1931 is a Swedish model, actress and cult Sex symbol. Jayne Mansfield (April 19 1933 – June 29 1967 was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood. Sabrina (born 19 May, 1936) was a 1950s English glamour model who progressed to a minor movie career ^[19]"^[20] Dolly Parton was the only modern Hollywood actress Meyer ever expressed interest in working with. Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American Country music Singer / Songwriter, Author, actress ^[21]

It should also be noted that while he often referred to his actresses as "Junoesque" and "Amazonian"^[22] this was probably more in their spirit than their actual physiques"^[23] as Meyer rarely ever cast very tall or symmetrically built actresses with strong legs and large posteriors. So while the general public could easily perceive Jane Russell or Sophia Loren as "Russ Meyer material", their balanced bodies did not mesh with Meyer's precise aesthetic preferences. Jane Russell (born June 21) is an American film actress and Sex symbol. Sophia Loren (born September 20 1934 is an Academy Award winning Italian film actress born Sofia Villani Scicolone "^[24] And indeed Meyer said many times that it was Gina Lollobrigida's smaller breasted figure that he preferred visually over her larger breasted, taller and bigger hipped rival, Sophia Loren. Gina Lollobrigida (born July 4, 1927 in Subiaco Italy) is a Golden Globe Award -winning Italian Actress and Photojournalist Sophia Loren (born September 20 1934 is an Academy Award winning Italian film actress born Sofia Villani Scicolone ^[25] Thus Meyer's complete oeuvre shows the viewer that while his actresses could easily be described as voluptuous, buxom and curvaceous, it's debatable to some if they were strapping, stately or even statuesque as Meyer readily proclaimed. "^[26][27]

The tallest actress Meyer ever cast in a lead was the 5'9, slim hipped, huge breasted Lorna Maitland ^[28](who he admitted he found intimidating to work with). Lorna Maitland (born November 19, 1943) is a film actress noted mostly for her large-breasted figure and appearances in three Russ Meyer films ^[29][30] Nearly all the other women he featured were no taller than 5'7. ^[31] Tura Satana's performance as Varla in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! was Meyer's only true portrayal of the large, strong and aggressive Amazonian archetype in the classic visual sense. Tura Satana, born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi July 10, 1938 in Hokkaidō, Japan, is a Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1965 film directed by Russ Meyer, who also wrote the script with Jack Moran ^[32][33]

Female empowerment

Film historian Jimmy McDonough posits that Russ Meyer's usage of physically and sexually overwhelming female characters places him in his own separate genre. ^[34] He argues that despite portraying women as sex objects, Meyer nonetheless depicts them as more powerful than men and is therefore an inadvertent feminist filmmaker. Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate Similarly, Hugh Hefner has observed: "In retrospect it seems to be empowering rather than exploitive. Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9 1926 is an American Magazine Publisher, and best known as the editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine How much of that was conscious and how much was unconscious? I think it was relatively uncalculated. . . most of what Russ did came from the gut. "^[35]

In many of Meyer's films women eventually defeat men, winning sexual fulfillment as their reward, e. g. , Super Vixen (Supervixens), Margo Winchester (Up!) and Lavonia Shed (Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens). Supervixens is a 1975 Sexploitation Satire by American filmmaker Russ Meyer. Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens ( 1979) is a satirical Sexploitation Film starring Kitten Natividad and Ann ^[36] And even in the 1950s and '60s his films were sometimes centered entirely around a woman's need and struggle for sexual satisfaction (Lorna, Good Morning and... Goodbye! and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens). Good Morning and Goodbye! is a 1967 American Exploitation film directed by Russ Meyer. Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens ( 1979) is a satirical Sexploitation Film starring Kitten Natividad and Ann ^[37] Additionally, Russ Meyer's female characters were often allowed to express anger and violence towards men (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Supervixens). Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1965 film directed by Russ Meyer, who also wrote the script with Jack Moran Supervixens is a 1975 Sexploitation Satire by American filmmaker Russ Meyer. ^[38]

Yet in his research, McDonough also notes that Meyer's female characters were limited in how powerful they could appear; ^[39] often the female lead is raped (Up! and Lorna) or brutally murdered (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Supervixens, Lorna and Blacksnake). Lorna is a 1964 film by Russ Meyer. Shot mainly on the small main street that runs through the town of Locke California in September 1963 this Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American musical comedy Film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Erica Gavin Supervixens is a 1975 Sexploitation Satire by American filmmaker Russ Meyer. While Russ Meyer may have championed powerful woman characters, he also forced them into violent and terrifying situations, making them prove their physical and mental strength against tremendous odds. ^[40] He also ensured that women's breasts were at least semi-exposed during these ordeals for comic or erotic effect. ^[41]Furthermore, according to frequent collaborator and longtime lover Kitten Natividad, Meyer's love of dominant women extended to his personal life, and he was almost always in a tumultuous relationship. Kitten Natividad (born Francesca Isabel Natividad on February 14, 1948) is a Mexican American film actress and Exotic dancer, ^[42]. ^[43]

Personal and family life

It was in World War II, that, according to Meyer, he found himself at a French brothel with Ernest Hemingway, who, upon finding out that Meyer was a virgin, offered him the prostitute of his choice. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21 1899 — July 2 1961 was an American novelist short-story writer, and Journalist. Meyer picked the one with the largest breasts. ^[44]

Despite his reputation as a Rabelaisian man, Russ Meyer never employed the casting couch and rarely slept with any of his actresses. The casting couch is a euphemism for a Sociological phenomenon that involves the trading of sexual favors by an aspirant apprentice Employee, or Subordinate ^[45] He had no children though there were rumored unsuccessful pregnancies with his second wife Edy Williams and last serious girlfriend Melissa Mounds who was also found guilty of assaulting him in 1999. Edwina Beth Williams (born July 9, 1942) is an American television and film actress. There is a long standing rumor among his closest friends and at least one biographer that he had a son in 1964 with a secret lover who he would refer to only as "Miss Mattress" or "Janet Buxton. "^[46]

Meyer was very upfront throughout his life about being too selfish to be a father or even a caring partner and husband, yet he is also said to have been very generous with all he knew and never isolated friends from each other. Biographers have attributed most of his brutish and eccentric nature to the fact that he was abandoned by his father, an Oakland police officer and overly coddled by his mother, Lydia, who was married six times and breast fed him until he was three years old. Oakland (ˈoʊklənd founded in 1852 is the eighth-largest city in the U Russ Meyer also had a half sister, Lucinda, who was diagnosed in her twenties with paranoid schizophrenia and was committed to California State mental institutions until her death in 1999. Schizophrenia ( from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν "to split" and phrēn California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Mental illness ran in his family and it was something he secretly feared. During his entire life Russ Meyer would speak with only the highest reverence for his mother and sister. ^[47]

Meyer was married to:

• Betty Valdovinos (ca. 1949 - ?)
• Eve Meyer (April 2, 1952 - 1969, divorced)
• Edy Williams (June 27, 1970 - November 7, 1977, divorced)

Contrary to some accounts, Meyer was never married to his frequent star, Kitten Natividad. The question mark (? also known as an interrogation point, question point, query, or eroteme, is a punctuation mark that replaces Eve Meyer (December 13 1928 - March 27 1977 was an American Pin-up model, motion picture actor and later Film producer. Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Edwina Beth Williams (born July 9, 1942) is an American television and film actress. Events 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Kitten Natividad (born Francesca Isabel Natividad on February 14, 1948) is a Mexican American film actress and Exotic dancer,

Final years

Meyer owned the rights to nearly all of his films and spent the majority of the 1980s and 1990s making millions reselling his films on the home video and DVD market. Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or hired for home entertainment DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is He worked out of the very same Los Angeles, California home he lived in and usually answered the phone to take orders himself. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. A major retrospective of his work was given at The British Film Institute (1983), The Chicago Film Festival honored him in 1985, and many revival movie houses booked his films for midnight movie marathons. The British Film Institute ( BFI) is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to encourage the development of the arts of film television The term midnight movie is rooted in the practice that emerged in the 1950s of local television stations around the United States airing low-budget genre films as late-night programming

He also worked obsessively for over a decade on a massive three volume autobiography entitled A Clean Breast. A Clean Breast is Russ Meyer 's three volume autobiography Written by under the pen name "Adolph Schwartz" and published by a company named "Huack" Finally printed in 2000, it features numerous excerpts of reviews, clever details of each of his films and countless photos and erotic musings.

Starting in the mid 1990s Meyer had frequent fits and bouts of memory loss. Memory loss can have many causes Alzheimer's disease is an illness which can cause mild to severe memory loss By 2000 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and his health and well-being were thereafter looked after by Janice Cowart, his secretary and estate executor. Alzheimer's disease ( AD) also called Alzheimer disease or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of Dementia. Most of Russ Meyer's estate was left to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in honor of his mother. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC is a Cancer treatment and research institution founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital.

Meyer died at his home in the Hollywood Hills, of complications of pneumonia and dementia, on September 18, 2004. Pneumonia is an inflammatory illness of the Lung. Frequently it is described as lung Parenchyma / alveolar inflammation and abnormal Dementia (from Latin de- "apart away" + Mens ( genitive mentis) "mind" is the progressive decline Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " He was 82 years old. Meyer's grave is located at Stockton Rural Cemetery [1], Stockton, San Joaquin County, California. Stockton is a City in California and the seat of San Joaquin County (the fifth largest agricultural county in the United States San Joaquin County is a county located in Central Valley of the U His headstone reads:

RUSS MEYER

"King of The Nudies"

"I Was Glad to Do It"

FILM PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR

MARCH 21, 1922

SEPT. 18, 2004

Selected filmography

• 1950 - The French Peep Show
• 1959 - The Immoral Mr. Teas
• 1959 - This Is My Body
• 1960 - Eve and the Handyman
• 1960 - Naked Camera
• 1961 - Erotica
• 1962 - Wild Gals of the Naked West
• 1963 - Europe in the Raw
• 1963 - Heavenly Bodies!
• 1963 - Skyscrapers and Brassieres
• 1964 - Lorna
• 1964 - Fanny Hill
• 1965 - Mudhoney
• 1965 - Motorpsycho
• 1965 - Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
• 1966 - Mondo Topless
• 1967 - Common Law Cabin
• 1967 - Good Morning and... Goodbye!
• 1968 - Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers!
• 1968 - Vixen!
• 1969 - Cherry, Harry & Raquel!
• 1970 - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
• 1971 - The Seven Minutes
• 1972 - Black Snake
• 1975 - Supervixens
• 1976 - Up!
• 1978 - Who Killed Bambi? (unfinished)
• 1979 - Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
• 2001 - Pandora Peaks (film)

Notes

References

• Frasier, David K. (1998). Russ Meyer : The Life and Films : A Biography and A Comprehensive, Illustrated, and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. Jefferson, N. C. : McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-7864-0472-8.  
• Greene, Doyle (2004). Lips Hips Tits Power : The Films Of Russ Meyer (Persistence of Vision). New York, NY: Creation Books. ISBN 184-068095-4.  
• McDonough, Jimmy (2005). Big Bosoms and Square Jaws : The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-07250-1.  
• Meyer, Russ (2000). A Clean Breast : The Life and Loves of Russ Meyer (3 Volume Set). El Rio, TX: Hauck Pub Co. ISBN 0-9621797-2-8.  
• Woods, Paul A. (2004). The Very Breast of Russ Meyer. London: Plexus Publishing. ISBN 0859653099.  

External links

• RM Films
• A Clean Breast: Russ Meyer biography
• Russ Meyer at the Internet Movie Database
• Russ Meyer at Find A Grave

Persondata
NAME	Meyer, Russ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meyer, Russell Albion
SHORT DESCRIPTION	director, photographer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 21, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oakland, California
DATE OF DEATH	September 18, 2004
PLACE OF DEATH	Hollywood Hills, California

Find A Grave is a Website allowing its users to access maintain and expand an online Database of Burial records A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. A photographer is a person who takes a Photograph using a Camera. Events 630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem. Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Oakland (ˈoʊklənd founded in 1852 is the eighth-largest city in the U Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of Los Angeles, California, United States, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean.

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