Chesty Morgan

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Chesty Morgan (born October 15, 1937 , married Liliana Wilczkowska , later Lillian Stello ) is a striptease dancer and photo model of Polish origin, who occasionally appeared as an actress .

Life

She was born in Poland in 1937 as the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family. After the German invasion of Poland , the family lost their business and had to move to the ghetto . One day her mother Eva was abducted by Germans while shopping. Her father Leon, who was active in the Jewish resistance, was shot dead in a riot in the ghetto.

Wilczkowska later came to Israel , where she lived in various orphanages and finally began training as a nurse in a kibbutz . In the late 1950s she met the American tourist Joseph Wilczkowski, with whom she fell in love and with whom she moved to New York City . The marriage resulted in two daughters. In 1965, her husband was killed in a robbery with two other colleagues.

Without a husband and as an immigrant with poor language skills, she was forced to earn a living for herself and her children. Following a recommendation from a friend, she began working as a striptease dancer.

The film producer and director Doris Wishman became aware of her, with whom she shot the films Devilish Breasts and A Super Hot Thing . Both were low-budget films with a trashy plot, but which have retained a certain cult status . In Deadly Weapons , Chesty took revenge on various gangsters by suffocating them with her breasts, in Double Agent 73 she got a camera built into her chest that took photos as soon as she bared her chest and raised her arm. Shortly afterwards she met Federico Fellini , who invited her to Rome to film Fellini's Casanova . She shot a short scene there with Donald Sutherland , which however fell victim to the cut .

In 1974 she married baseball umpire Dick Stello (1934–1987). In 1979 they divorced. In 1984, Morgan's eldest daughter died in a traffic accident in New York City.

In 1991 she ended her career as a dancer. She now owns a rental home in Tampa Bay .

John Waters showed scenes with Morgan from Devilish Breasts in his comedy film Serial Mom - Why Doesn't Mama Let The Killing? (1994). She was also the model for the character of the Caprice Stickles portrayed by Selma Blair in Waters' film satire A Dirty Shame (2004).

Filmography

  • 1973: Devilish Breasts (Deadly Weapons)
  • 1974: A Super Hot Thing (Double Agent 73)
  • 1976: Fellini's Casanova (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini) (deleted scene)
  • 1981: Third Hand (Dai dai feng liu dai dai chun, Di san zhi shou)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Jeff Klinkenberg: Chesty Morgan: A life more than skin deep . In: Tampa Bay Times, December 11, 2009 (archival version).
  2. ↑ Melissa Klein: Killer in '65 'Icebox' Bloodbath Out of Prison . In: New York Post, December 9, 2007.
  3. ↑ Richard Stello . In: retrosheet.org, accessed March 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ Deadly Weapons (1974) in Serial Mom (1994) . In: filminfilm.tumblr.com, accessed March 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ Joe Blevins: Obscene and Unheard: The Unmade Films of John Waters . In: vulture.com from November 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Chesty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilczkowska, Liliana; Stello, Lillian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish stripper and model, occasional actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland