Jennifer Welles
{{Short description|American pornographic actress}}
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| birth_place = New Jersey, United States{{cite book |last1=III |first1=Harris M. Lentz |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018 |date=2019 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-7033-1 |page=398 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfWaDwAAQBAJ&q=jennifer+welles+obituary&pg=PT412 |accessdate=23 December 2019 |language=en}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|6|26|1937|3|15|mf=y}}
| death_place =Arizona, United States
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Jennifer Welles (March 15, 1937 – June 26, 2018{{cite web|url=https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/07/01/jennifer-welles/ |title=The Rialto Report: "R.I.P. Jennifer Welles (1937–2018)"|date=July 2018|accessdate=1 July 2018}}) was an American former pornographic actress in films of the 1970s, although she began her acting career in the late 1960s in the softcore sexploitation genre
films produced in New York. Some of these include: Sex by Advertisement (1967), Career Bed, Submission, and This Sporting House, by pornographic film director Henri Pachard (all from 1969).{{IMDb name|id=0919933}}
Early life
Welles grew up in Paterson, New Jersey where she attended a parochial elementary school.{{cite news |last1=Chadwick |first1=Bruce |title=Jennifer will play it straight |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29893922/ |accessdate=27 March 2019 |work=New York Daily News |date=31 August 1976}}
Career
She began her career in entertainment at age 15 for a touring dance production, telling the company she was 21.{{cite news |last1=Giase |first1=John |title=Porno Star Brings Act to Empress |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29894650/ |accessdate=27 March 2019 |publisher=Asbury Park Press |date=7 August 1976}} She worked in a variety of areas such as a chorus line member, magician's assistant, jazz singer and nightclub performer. Later, she worked as a stripper.{{cite news |last1=Gentile |first1=Don |title=Lights, Camera & Lots of Action |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30823109/ |accessdate=23 April 2019 |work=New York Daily News |date=1 April 1976}}
In the 1960s she studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse. After many years of appearing in numerous R-rated films such as The Groove Tube and The Female Response, she made her first hardcore film, Honeypie, in 1975.
Welles was also a fetish magazine model for such magazines as Bizarre while using the stage name "Lisa Duran".{{citation needed|date=September 2014}}
Welles appeared in many films, the best known being Inside Jennifer Welles (1977), which she is also credited with having directed (although the film was actually anonymously directed by sex-exploitation veteran Joseph W. Sarno).{{cite web|url=http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/03/17/podcast-03-jennifer-welles-the-lady-vanishes/ |title=The Rialto Report: "Jennifer Welles: The Lady Vanishes"|date=18 March 2013|accessdate=10 September 2014}}{{cite AV media|people=Wiktor Ericsson (director)|year=2013|title=A Life in Dirty Movies|medium=Motion picture|url=http://www.sarnosthefilm.com/ |accessdate=16 January 2016|archiveurl= |archivedate= |publisher=Anagram Produktion|isbn= |oclc= }}
She lectured at several schools such as the University of Maryland and Stony Brook University.
Awards
Welles won the Erotica Award for Best Actress in 1977 for the film Little Orphan Sammy,{{cite news |last1=Knoedelseder |first1=William K. Jr.|title=Erotic Film Awards Presented |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30686573/ |accessdate=17 April 2019 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=16 July 1977}} and she was the editor of Eros, The Magazine of Decadent Sophistication in that same year.{{citation needed|date=September 2014}} She became a member of the AVN Hall of Fame in 1996.{{cite web|url=http://www.rame.net/faq/avn/1995.html|title=Adult Video News Award Winners - 1995|accessdate=10 September 2014|archive-date=6 December 1998|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981206121829/http://www.rame.net/faq/avn/1995.html|url-status=dead}}
Personal life
Jennifer Welles left the industry abruptly in 1977{{cite news |title=Question you Didn't Ask |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29955987/ |accessdate=27 March 2019 |publisher=Carlsbad Current-Argus |date=28 August 1977}} after she married a wealthy fan. Divorcing several years later, she spent her days raising horses and rescuing dogs that had been abandoned or abused. Welles died in Arizona on June 26, 2018, at age 81.
See also
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb name|0919933|Jennifer Welles}}
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- {{afdb name|id=13919|gender=female|name=Jennifer Welles}}
- [http://www.therialtoreport.com/2013/03/17/podcast-03-jennifer-welles-the-lady-vanishes/ Audio interview with Jennifer Welles] at [http://www.therialtoreport.com/ The Rialto Report]
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