Cheri Caffaro

Cheri Caffaro born April 29, 1945 is an American actress who appeared mainly in low-budget exploitation films in the 1970s.[3] A fifteen-year-old Pasadena resident, she won a Life-magazine-reported Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest,[4] beating a twelve-year-old Portland Mason.[5]

Cheri Caffaro
NationalityAmerican
OccupationActress[1]
Years active1971–1977
Known forLow-budget exploitation films in the 1970s[2]
Notable workToo Hot to Handle, Savage Sisters, the Ginger trilogy

Career

In the early 1970s, she was directed by then-husband and Manhattan theatre owner Don Schain in a series of softcore sexploitation action films, most notably the "Ginger" trilogy, consisting of Ginger, The Abductors and Girls Are For Loving. Caffaro played Ginger McAllister, a tough and resourceful bed-hopping private-eye and spy. Her missions involved busting up seedy wrongdoers involved in drugs, prostitution and white slavery. Her character also spends an inordinate amount of time bound and gagged and/or raped.

She also appeared in A Place Called Today and Too Hot To Handle (both also directed by Schain). She was quickly stereotyped, became disenchanted with the direction her film career had taken and, like Bettie Page before her, disappeared from the public eye.

She has also been credited with an appearance on the TV show Baretta, and as a writer and producer of the 1979 sex comedy H.O.T.S. Her last screen credit is noted as a character voice in an episode of the 1997 animated TV series Extreme Ghostbusters.

Filmography

References
  1. "Cheri Caffaro". JG Autographs. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  2. Drenner, Elijah (31 December 2011). "My Favorite Year". iwakeupscreaming. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  3. "Official website of Cheri Caffaro".
  4. "Carroll Baker". Life Magazine. November 28, 1960. Retrieved 19 June 2022 – via Old Life Magazines. Facsimiles of Bardot, a fun article about a Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest with Robin Nile, Cheri Caffaro, the winner.
  5. "Kids Win a BB Match". Life. Time Inc. 5 December 1960. p. 65. Retrieved 19 June 2022. via google books
  6. Donlon, Jon Griffin (2013-12-05). Bayou Country Bloodsport: The Culture of Cockfighting in Southern Louisiana. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-7247-5.
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