Rita Bennett
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.
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Raging Bull
as Emma - Miss 48's
1980

All That Jazz
as Stripper
1979

The Projectionist
as Harem Girl (uncredited)
1970

Nude in Charcoal
as Backstage Model
1961

The Sex Killer
as Sunbather
1967

The Love Cult
as Cultist
1966

Some of My Best Friends Are...
1971

Flying Acquaintances
as Betty
1973

Crazy Wild and Crazy
as Girl Running in Slow Motion (uncredited)
1964

Confessions of a Psycho Cat
as Sex Inserts
1968

Too Much Too Often!
as Rita
1968

Vibrations
as Georgia (uncredited)
1968