Eve Meyer

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Eve Meyer (born December 13, 1928 in Griffin , Georgia , † March 27, 1977 at Tenerife North Airport , Tenerife , Spain ) was an American model , actress and film producer . She was best known for her collaboration with the sexploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer , with whom she was married from 1952 to 1970.

Life and career

As Evelyn Eugene Turner , born southerner initially trained as a secretary. From the 1950s she worked part-time as a photo model to supplement her salary as a secretary. Through a lawyer friend, she met Russ Meyer in San Francisco in 1952 , who was still working as a photographer at the time. Meyer later recalled his wife in retrospect:

"I knew I'd marry her the minute we met, and she was the greatest love of my life. We broke up because I'm a no-good son of a bitch. "

- Russ Meyer

In the same year she married Russ Meyer and worked with him on numerous photo shoots. Her husband also portrayed her for a series of photos that made her Playmate of the Month for the American edition of Playboy in June 1955 .

Also in 1955 she took on her first film role as a model in the film Painter and Girls , which was not mentioned in the credits. In 1958 the couple founded the production company Eve Productions , which in future produced and sold Meyer's films. In 1961, Eve Meyer took on her first and only leading role in a feature film in Eva und der Mann für alles . After that she worked exclusively as a film producer, almost without exception producing her husband's films. She also advised her husband on his business activities and investments.

Meyer found the film Lorna made by her husband in 1964 , too much for a man , degrading. She also suffered from depression after an abdominal operation. Russ Meyer separated from his wife and traveled to Germany, where he made the film Fanny Hill . However, both remained on friendly terms and continued their collaboration. In 1970, their marriage ended in divorce. Eve Meyer then only produced two films by her former husband; The Seven Minutes (1971) and Black Snake (1973).

She died on March 27, 1977 in the plane disaster in Tenerife . Meyer was on board a Boeing 747-121 from Pan American World Airways (registration number: N736PA, "Clipper Victor"), which collided with an unauthorized take-off Boeing 747-206B from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines .

Filmography

actress
  • 1955: Artists and Models (Artists and Models)
  • 1959: In the Kusong kettle (Operation Dames)
  • 1961: Eva and the man for everything / Eva and her caretaker (Eve and the Handyman)
Film producer
  • 1963: Heavenly Bodies!
  • 1964: Lorna - too much for a man (Lorna)
  • 1965: In the Garden of Lust (Mudhoney)
  • 1965: The Satanswives of Tittfield (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!)
  • 1965: Motorpsycho ... like wild stallions (Motorpsycho)
  • 1966: Mondo Topless
  • 1967: The love of witches / How much love does a normal couple need (Common Law Cabin)
  • 1967: Good morning ... and goodbye / Like mothers like daughters (Good Morning ... and Goodbye!)
  • 1968: Zero Zero Sex (Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers!)
  • 1968: Without Mercy - Honey (Vixen!)
  • 1969: Megavixens (Cherry, Harry & Raquel!)
  • 1970: Flowers without fragrance (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls)
  • 1971: The Seven Minutes
  • 1971: The Jesus Trip
  • 1973: Black Snake

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Big Boob Theory - Article in Los Angeles Magazine , June 2000 Issue, page 13
  2. ↑ a b Larry Teeman: How Eve Meyer what changed into cheesecake. Modern Man, Issue 46, September 1958
  3. ↑ MEYER MONTH - Russ Meyer, The Pin-Up Photographer at lydiarghgrace.wordpress.com, accessed on May 3, 2012
  4. ↑ David K. Frasier: Russ Meyer - The Life and Films: A Biography and a Comprehensive, Illustrated and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. Mcfarland & Co Inc, 1997, p. 51
  5. ↑ Eve Productions at imdb.de, accessed on May 3, 2012
  6. ↑ a b c Breast mania! Russ Meyer at kybernaut.de, accessed on May 3, 2012
  7. ↑ King of the funny skin flicks at rogerebert.suntimes.com, accessed May 3, 2012
  8. ↑ Pan Am Passengers List at project-tenerife.com, accessed on May 3, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Eve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turner, Evelyn Eugene (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American model, actress, and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Griffin , Georgia , United States
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1977
Place of death Tenerife North Airport , Tenerife , Spain