Rita Bennett

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.2382

Gender

Female

Birthday

26-Jan-1941

Age

(85 years old)

Place of Birth

Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA

Also Known As
  • Joanna Cunningham
  • Rita A. Bennett
  • Sarah Davenport
  • Elizabeth Sunburst

Rita Bennett

Biography

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.


Credits

Decameron '69 Decameron '69 (1969) Character: N/A
Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century collection of novellas known as The Decameron, this innovative film combines short works from seven directors who set out to interpret Boccaccio's masterwork for the modern age. The result is an assortment of titillating tales ranging from the erotic to the tragic.
Flying Acquaintances Flying Acquaintances (1973) Character: Betty
Meet New York's most sexually charged circle of friends. There's the stewardess who can't wait to try every cockpit in the city. There's the cabdriver who takes beautiful women for the rides of their lives. And there's the nosey neighbors who can't get enough of the non-stop sounds of love from next door.
Lusting Hours Lusting Hours (1967) Character: Call Girl (uncredited)
Presented as an inquiry into the ways of lust, this film is staged as a documentary. It moves from rural prostitution (the roadhouse) to pornographers, then on to streetwalkers, male hustlers, and high-class call girls. The madam runs the bordello, she depends on the photographer to supply her with pornography; he's in the city, using his camera to lead him into depravity. The streetwalkers risk arrest from the cops and abuse from the johns. Even the call girls have a tough time: from their expenses to their lack of self-reflection. Their motto: "Live fast, die young, and make a beautiful corpse."
The Love Cult The Love Cult (1966) Character: Cultist
A magician/hypnotist gets the idea that he can make more money (and have a better time) by starting a sex cult than by continuing his magic act, so he becomes Brother Eros whose motto is "Love is all that counts."
The Diary of Knockers McCalla The Diary of Knockers McCalla (1968) Character: N/A
Obscure sexploitation feature charting a young girl's descent from virginal bride to total slut.
Diary of a Swinger Diary of a Swinger (1967) Character: Jeannie (as Joanna Cunningham)
Jeannie relates her life story to her shrink.
Too Much Too Often! Too Much Too Often! (1968) Character: Rita
A male escort spirals into chaos as he navigates the dark underbelly of his hedonistic world, battling addiction and violent encounters, ultimately confronting the cost of his choices in a desperate bid for redemption.
Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name (1969) Character: Go-Go Dancer
A pretty young girl arrives in New York City to make it in "the Big Apple", but winds up getting involved with lesbians, an escort service and the underground bondage scene.
Sin in the City Sin in the City (1966) Character: N/A
Three girls head from boarding school to NYC, arriving by bus at Port Authority and vowing to "get into trouble." These "girls gone wild" forerunners head to a Greenwich Village bar where they copycat a girl stripping to dance topless atop the bar, then head to a Village party and finally crash a posh uptown party before catching the bus home.
Nude in Charcoal Nude in Charcoal (1961) Character: Backstage Model
June, a beautiful, yet naive, young art student is lured into a relationship of unbridled lust by a suave older artist named Najlas Sarto.
Teresa... Darling Teresa... Darling (1969) Character: N/A
Married woman is thrown for a loop when her husband tells her that, before their recent marriage, his sexual relations were exclusively with hookers.
Come Play with Me Come Play with Me (1968) Character: Clarice
Jan Cousins, brutally raped by her date, returns to boarding school, and there she is confronted by Clarice, a lesbian who seduces her. Jan seeks sexual fulfillment from her boyfriend, Roger, but his strict upbringing has left him with a perverse need to be spanked. Roger appeals first to a prostitute, then to Clarice, and finally to Jan for spanking, but she reacts with shock and tears. Her psychiatrist suggests that she find a normal man, but her successive dates are even more abnormal than Roger. She modifies her standards of normality and begins to accept all types of behaviour. She does some research on flagellation, whips Roger, and finally achieves sexual satisfaction.
Crazy Wild and Crazy Crazy Wild and Crazy (1964) Character: Girl Running in Slow Motion (uncredited)
A photographer tries to show us in the audience how to make a nudie-cutie, only for everything to go totally wrong.
The Secret Dream Models of Oliver Nibble The Secret Dream Models of Oliver Nibble (1967) Character: N/A
The film starts out B&W and shows Oliver Nibble being berated by his wife. They go to a cinema and Oliver's imagination runs wild. The film turns into color as Oliver photographs his models in various stages of dress (and undress).
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted (1967) Character: Corpse
Sex film about a series of case study sketches collected by a man studying abnormal sexual behavior.
Going Down for the 3rd Time Going Down for the 3rd Time (1969) Character: N/A
Three female spies are assigned to break up an international spy ring and liberate three of their colleagues who are being held hostages.
Prostitutes Protective Society Prostitutes Protective Society (1966) Character: Prostitute
Madame Sue runs a successful Prostitute operation in the heart of NYC, and as it should happen, The Mob wants to get a piece of the action. Still, being the go ahead women they are, they decide to fight back and keep themselves independent of any outsider business influence.
The Sex Killer The Sex Killer (1967) Character: Sunbather
A loner who works in a mannequin factory stalks and strangles women in Times Square.
The Bed and How to Make It! The Bed and How to Make It! (1966) Character: Karen
The motel had 70 beds and she knew them all.
Some of My Best Friends Are... Some of My Best Friends Are... (1971) Character: N/A
Regulars gather at The Blue Jay, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, to celebrate Christmas Eve 1971 with people they consider family.
Vibrations Vibrations (1968) Character: Georgia (uncredited)
Barbara, a frustrated writer who is also sexually frustrated, seeks to recharge her life by moving into a Manhattan apartment, where she earns money typing up manuscripts for other writers. Next door, a sexy young lady plays a variety of erotic games revolving around her hypnotically humming vibrator. When Julie, Barbara's hot-to-trot sister shows up, she reluctantly allows her to stay, even though memories of incestuous girlhood explorations between them cause her obvious distress.
The Projectionist The Projectionist (1970) Character: Harem Girl (uncredited)
A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.
Is There Sex After Death? Is There Sex After Death? (1971) Character: Bambi Ferguson (uncredited)
Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation, searches out luminary figures in the world of sex.
Professor Lust Professor Lust (1967) Character: N/A
A sex-crazed Jekyll & Hyde riff wherein an elderly professor uses a maysterious chemical to turn himself into a swinger.
Confessions of a Psycho Cat Confessions of a Psycho Cat (1968) Character: Sex Inserts
A deranged, wealthy woman offers $100,000 to three men if they can stay alive for 24 hours in Manhattan, and then hunts them down.
Raging Bull Raging Bull (1980) Character: Emma - Miss 48's
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
All That Jazz All That Jazz (1979) Character: Stripper
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
High Rise High Rise (1973) Character: Stripper
A young woman in New York City goes out looking for an apartment and finds herself getting caught up in a series of sexual adventures culminating in a wild orgy.



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