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“If I have a semi-erection and my shorts are getting moist, then I know I’m doing something right.” Russ Meyer

“Russ Meyer is the Eisenstein of sex films. He is single-handedly responsible for more hard-ons in movie audiences than any other director, despite the fact that he has refused to ever make a hardcore feature … He writes, produces, directs, films and edits his own productions and they all make money. Russ Meyer has never made a bad film.”

/ Sultan of Sleaze John Waters waxing lyrical about one of his primary cinematic influences, Russ Meyer, in his book Shock Value (1981) /

Born on this day 102 years ago: visionary breast-fixated high potentate of sexploitation cinema Russ Meyer (21 March 1922 - 18 September 2004). Pictured: Meyer with glamazonian starlet Edy Williams, best remembered for her performance as the predatory, sexually insatiable Ashley St Ives in Meyer’s Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970). The two were stormily married between 1970 and 1975. “We were an extraordinary couple,” Meyer would recall. “A sex bomb with an old pornographer.”The 2005 book Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer by Jimmy McDonough is compulsory reading.

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Edwina Beth "Edy" Williams (American television and film actress), 1970's

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Edy Williams, Phyllis Davis, Erica Gavin, Marcia McBroom, Cynthia Myers, Angel Ray, Dolly Read, and Lavelle Roby in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970).

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Edy Williams

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Edy Williams to play Jayne Mansfield?

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Edy Williams attends the Academy Awards, 1986. Photographed by Ron Galella.

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Edy Williams in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)

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Edy

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Edy Williams

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Edy Williams

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Russ Meyer and Edy Williams under contract at 20th Century Fox

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Edy Williams and Russ Meyer

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““The way Indians could sniff out buffalo, Edy can sniff out flashbulbs,” wrote reporter Burt Prelutsky. “At the mere mention of the word “camera” her lips automatically moisten and her teeth part.” Decked out in some skimpy concoction designed to make passersby walk into walls, she’d muse to one reporter, “There is a certain satisfaction in frustrating men. I’m getting back at them and it’s a good feeling.” In her prime, every day was a press conference for Edy. “You mustn’t let a man feel too sure,” she instructed. “Instead of giving him your whole box of candy, you’ve got to ration it out one piece at a time.”” 

/ From Jimmy McDonough’s essential Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer (2005) / 

Born on this day 80 years ago: perennial starlet, the former Mrs Russ Meyer and quintessential statuesque glamazon Edy Williams (née Edwina Beth Williams, 9 July 1942). Williams’ ferocious performance as predatory porn starlet Ashley St Ives in Meyer’s 1970 sexploitation magnum opus Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ensures her cult cinema immortality.

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