Stephanie Rothman

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Stephanie Rothman (born November 9, 1936 in Paterson , New Jersey ) is an American film director , writer and producer who attracted attention with her work for Roger Corman in the 1960s and 1970s .

Life

She studied sociology at the University of California in Los Angeles and Berkeley in the 1950s , graduated with a bachelor's degree and began studying film at the University of Southern California in 1962 . She became the first woman to receive a Directors Guild of America scholarship . Rothman hired herself as a second unit employee on Roger Corman's cheaply made exploitation films during her graduation .

In 1966 she took over the film Horror Cocktail from a director who had been fired by Corman , for which the half-hour fragment of a Yugoslav spy film was mixed with a California serial killer story to create a variation on the vampire film. Stephanie Rothman's first own film for the Corman Factory was It's a Bikini World in 1967 , about the battle of the sexes and role-playing on sunny beaches to the music of the animals and the gentry .

Stephanie Rothman's next work was more impressive: The Student Nurses (1970), the first film by Roger Corman's newly founded production company New World Pictures , about a group of attractive student nurses whose erotic escapades were cleverly spiced with socially critical plot elements, was a great commercial success and the start of a series of further "sister films" from Corman.

In 1971 Stephanie Rothman shot The Velvet Vampire , with which she finally transferred the vampire myth to the scorching sun of California: A young couple is lured by a mysterious beauty to the Mojave Desert , where an erotic love triangle leads to a fight for survival. In 1973, the director was a "group wedding" (in her next film, six young people of both sexes Group Marriage celebrate). In the same year she shot Men Like the Tigers over a sunny island to which convicted murderers are banished and left to their own devices, which initially means that women are kept as slaves and, for example, have to pull plows like cattle . This was one of the first films with Tom Selleck .

Rothman's last film was the 1974 sexploitation comedy The Working Girls , about the varied efforts of three attractive women to make their way in a man's world.

Stephanie Rothman's films differed from the usual exploitation films by the strong female characters and the translucent socio-critical approach. In contrast to other protégés of Roger Corman, she did not move into the mainstream and no longer appeared as a filmmaker.

Filmography

  • 1965: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet - Production
  • 1965: Beach Ball production
  • 1966: Queen of Blood - production
  • 1966: Horror Cocktail ( Blood Bath ) - script, director
  • 1967: It's a Bikini World - script, director
  • 1970: The Student Nurses - production, script, direction
  • 1971: The Velvet Vampire - script, director
  • 1973: Sweet Sugar book
  • 1973: Group Marriage - script, directed
  • 1973: Men Like the Tigers (Terminal Island) - script, director
  • 1974: The Working Girls - script, director
  • 1977: Ruby - director (uncr.)

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personal data
SURNAME Rothman, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, producer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Paterson , New Jersey