Angelique Pettyjohn

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Angelique Pettyjohn (born March 11, 1943 in Los Angeles , California as Dorothy Lee Perrins , † February 14, 1992 in Las Vegas , Nevada ) was an American actress and burlesque queen.

Life

Pettyjohn was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Salt Lake City , Utah . She made her film debut at the side of Don Murray and Linda Evans in the drama Childish Things , which was completed in 1966 but was not released until 1969 under the title Confessions of Tom Harris . In 1967 she played a few small roles in television series, sometimes only under her first name Angelique, such as the male Charlie Watkins in Mini-Max , who disguised as a beautiful cigarette girl supports Maxwell Smart, played by Don Adams . In the same year she also played small roles under her first name in the horror thriller The Touch of Her Flesh and the drama porn games with stick and whip . It was not until the end of the year, with her appearance as Gloria in Arthur H. Nadel's Elvis Presley film Just Don't Be A Millionaire , that she became known as Angelique Pettyjohn. In 1968 she auditioned for the role of Nova, Planet of the Apes before ( Linda Harrison got the job) and then won the role of Shahna in the wake of the slave master of the series Star Trek . A year later, she played Sheila Willard in the cult horror film Mad Doctor of Blood Island , Cherry in the biker film The Wild Thugs of Rockers Town and the saloon girl Emily in powder and lead .

In the 1970s she starred as Susan Rome in the science fiction exploitation film Pornographic Recordings (1970), as Miss Honeysuckle in Up Your Teddy Bear (1970) and as Bonnie in Wit's End (1971). She also appeared as a burlesque star in Las Vegas and was photographed by Robert Scott Hooper for the February issue of the 1979 Playboy . Hooper also photographed Pettyjohn, known at Star Trek Conventions, for two posters in her costume from the series Master of Slaves , one covered and one for adults.

In the early 1980s she appeared in the hardcore adult films Titillation (1982), Stalag 69 (1982) and Body Talk (1984), where, as before, she only used her first name or the pseudonyms Angel St. John and Heaven St. John performed. She also played a stripping nun in the comedy Good-bye Cruel World (1983), Whiplash in Three Angels on Death Island (1984), in Repoman (1984), as Lisa Martyn in Biohazard (1985) and in 1988 Dora Belair in Mike Jittlov's Magic Movie .

On February 14, 1992, Pettyjohn died of cervical cancer in Las Vegas at the age of 48 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1967: The Green Hornet (TV series, episode)
  • 1967: Whenever He Took Pills ( Mr. Terrific , TV series, episode)
  • 1967: Dangerous Everyday Life ( The Felony Squad , TV series, an episode)
  • 1967: Batman (TV series, episode)
  • 1967: Dancer for UNCLE ( The Girl from UNCLE , TV series, an episode)
  • 1967: Mini-Max ( Get Smart , TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1967: The Touch of Her Flesh
  • 1967: Stick and whip porn games (The Love Rebellion)
  • 1967: Just Don't Be A Millionaire (Clambake)
  • 1968: Spaceship Enterprise ( Star Trek , TV series, episode 2x16: Master of the Slaves )
  • 1968: Good Morning, World (TV series, episode)
  • 1969: Childish Things
  • 1969: Mad Doctor of Blood Island
  • 1969: The Wild Thugs of Rockers Town (Hell's Belles)
  • 1969: Powder and Lead (Heaven with a Gun)
  • 1969: Bracken's World (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1970: Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
  • 1970: Pornographic recordings (The Curious Female)
  • 1970: Up Your Teddy Bear
  • 1971: Wit's End
  • 1982: titration
  • 1982: Stalag 69
  • 1983: Good-bye Cruel World
  • 1984: Body Talk
  • 1984: Repoman (Repo Man)
  • 1985: Three Angels on Death Island (The Lost Empire)
  • 1985: Takin 'It Off
  • 1985: Biohazard
  • 1988: Magic Movie (The Wizard of Speed ​​and Time)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tom Lisanti Angelique Pettyjohn . Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-movie Starlets of the Sixties. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  2. a b Angelique Pettyjohn . superstrangevideo.com. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  3. ^ The Girls of Las Vegas ( January 25, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ). Playboy, February 1979
  4. Original poster . vegasretro.com. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
  5. Angelique Pettyjohn . findagrave.com. Retrieved May 5, 2017.