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Lovely, shapely, and captivating brunette Rita Bennett was born on January 26, 1941 in Glen Cove, New York. An only child, Rita grew up in a dysfunctional household in Long Island. Unhappy with her turbulent home life, Bennett focused primarily on her burgeoning comely looks as a teenager. Rita left home at age sixteen and moved into a room in a Manhattan apartment with five girls who she barely knew. Bennett soon started modeling and was featured in ads in both newspapers and magazines as well as on billboards (she even was the face of an ad campaign for a Manhattan department store). Rita appeared in her first soft-core film in 1961. Among the notable East Coast soft-core cinema directors that Bennett appeared in films for are Joseph W. Sarno, Barry Mahon, William Rose, and John Amero and Lem Amero. Outside of acting, Rita also worked as a stripper in the tri-state area on the East Coast and managed to land the occasional small role in a major mainstream movie in which she was cast to type as a stripper. Bennett quit acting and stripping in the mid-1980's and went on to focus on fashion and animal welfare instead. Alas, Rita had serious problems with alcoholism throughout her life. Bennett died in 2017. Her body was unclaimed and ultimately wound up buried in a potter's field.

Known For

7.9

Emma - Miss 48's

Raging Bull

1980

7.5

Stripper

All That Jazz

1979

7.0

Stripper

High Rise

1973

2.7

Betty

Flying Acquaintances

1973

3.9

Some of My Best Friends Are...

1971

🎬

3.0

Bambi Ferguson (uncredited)

Is There Sex After Death?

1971

5.6

Harem Girl (uncredited)

The Projectionist

1970

1.0

Teresa... Darling

1969

0.0

Go-Go Dancer

Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name

1969

0.0

Going Down for the 3rd Time

1969

Credits

Raging Bull

as Emma - Miss 48's

1980

7.9

All That Jazz

as Stripper

1979

7.5

High Rise

as Stripper

1973

7.0

Flying Acquaintances

as Betty

1973

2.7

Some of My Best Friends Are...

1971

3.9

🎬

Is There Sex After Death?

as Bambi Ferguson (uncredited)

1971

3.0

The Projectionist

as Harem Girl (uncredited)

1970

5.6

Teresa... Darling

1969

1.0

Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name

as Go-Go Dancer

1969

0.0

Going Down for the 3rd Time

1969

0.0

Decameron '69

1969

2.0

Too Much Too Often!

as Rita

1968

4.8

🎬

The Diary of Knockers McCalla

1968

1.0

Confessions of a Psycho Cat

as Sex Inserts

1968

4.5

Vibrations

as Georgia (uncredited)

1968

4.4

Come Play with Me

as Clarice

1968

1.0

Professor Lust

1967

1.0

Diary of a Swinger

as Jeannie (as Joanna Cunningham)

1967

1.0

The Sex Killer

as Sunbather

1967

3.0

File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted

as Corpse

1967

2.0

The Secret Dream Models of Oliver Nibble

1967

2.0

Lusting Hours

as Call Girl (uncredited)

1967

3.1

The Bed and How to Make It!

as Karen

1966

3.7

Sin in the City

1966

1.0

Prostitutes Protective Society

as Prostitute

1966

4.4

The Love Cult

as Cultist

1966

3.3

Crazy Wild and Crazy

as Girl Running in Slow Motion (uncredited)

1964

2.5

Nude in Charcoal

as Backstage Model

1961

4.0