Laura Gemser

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Laura Gemser (1970)

Laurette "Laura" Marcia Gemser (born October 5, 1950 in Surabaya , Java ) is an Italian actress of Dutch - Indonesian origin, who became known as an actress in soft porn films . She is considered an icon of soft porn of the 1970s. She has been working as a costume designer since the mid-1980s .

Life

She was born in Java as the daughter of an Indonesian and a Dutchman. When she was four years old, she moved with her parents to the Netherlands , where the family settled in Utrecht . After finishing school, she graduated from the Artibus Art School with a focus on fashion design . She also worked as a photo model under the name Laurette Marcia Gemser .

1970s

After Gemser had been photographed for a few magazines in the Netherlands and Belgium, Italian film producers offered her a film role through their modeling agency (Pierre Eggermonts Models Office ). Although she had no acting training, she made her film debut in 1974 in the role of an exotic island beauty in the erotic adventure film Amore libero - Free Love (director: Pier Ludovico Pavoni). The following year she worked as a slippery masseuse in the second genre contribution to the French Emmanuelle film series, Emmanuelle 2 - Garden of Love , alongside Sylvia Kristel . The small role was enough to make her known to an international audience. In the same year director Bitto Albertini Gemser offered the role of Black Emanuelle , an Italian competition series to the successful Emmanuelle series. Albertini created an extraordinarily successful cult character with the figure of the freelance photographer, who travels the world in search of images and sexual experiences. The film was the breakthrough for Gemser. In addition, through the exploitation film , she met her future husband, the 18-year-old Italian Gabriele Tinti , when he visited the production office in Rome.

Director Joe D'Amato , who specialized in erotic and horror films in the 1970s, hired Gemser for her fourth feature film: Voto di castità . It was here that she worked at Tinti's side for the first time. From then on both of them stood together in front of the camera in almost all film tasks. The marriage took place in 1976, and Gemser moved to Italy. D'Amato cast her in a total of 28 films in the following years. It was also he who took up the concept of Black Emanuelle (for legal reasons the name was spelled with just an "m") and linked it closely to Gemser. The film distributors took advantage of this fact by later bringing the films of that time into the cinemas under alternative Emanuelle titles, although there were no references. D'Amato occasionally “upgraded” his work in post-production with hardcore scenes, in which Gemser did not take part.

In addition to a few horror films in which she also acted freely, Gemser was reduced to undemanding roles in the 1970s.

1980s

Attempts to switch to the serious subject followed in the 1980s. In addition to action and science fiction films , Gemser played in 1983 alongside Michael Landon in the television film Operation Comeback by director Hall Bartlett , albeit under the pseudonym Moira Chen . She chose this stage name at the behest of Bartlett, who feared Gemser's reputation as a sex icon.

Since Tinti's death on November 12, 1991, she has been living in seclusion in Italy .

Filmography

literature

  • Laura Gemser special. In: X-RATED: The Art of Horror. No. 5, 2nd quarter 1998, pp. 5–12.
  • Martin Hentschel: Simpel Movie Portrait (Brochure): Laura Gemser. Media, publishing and advertising company Knorr Martens, 2007, ISBN 978-3-931608-79-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lui Germany , 1/1980, p. 52; The men's magazine names Sourabaya as the place of birth.
  2. ↑ X-RATED: The Art of Horror, Laura Gemser Special. No. 5.
  3. ↑ a b Peter Osteried: Simpel Movie Portrait. P. 10.
  4. ^ Peter Osteried: Simpel Movie Portrait. P. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Gemser, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laurette Marcia Gemser, Moira Chen (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch actress
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Surabaya , Java