![]() Sadly, Miss Pedon's personal demons - drugs & alcohol & who knows what else - were powerful & persistent and contributed to her death of liver disease at the young age of 28. That combo - the proportions of a goddess but the down-to-earth persona of your neighbor around the block - is a big reason for her appeal even decades later. The fact that her lovely slender body included a pair of incredible breasts several sizes larger than the rest of her frame got her fans' attention, but her staying power was helped along with an appealing girl-next-door appearance - pretty eyes, a goofy smile, and a general demeanor halfway between corn-fed Midwestern girl and California hippie. She was quickly 'discovered' by photographers & men's magazines, and became a mainstay in the pin-up landscape of the era. Supposedly somewhere along the line she picked up fluent Portuguese, although not much else is known before her migration to California in the early 1970s. ![]() Roberta Pedon (1952-1982) was born with the not exactly stage-friendly name Rosma Laila Grantoviskis to Latvian-Jewish parents in Ohio. Truly a legend, and one with influence far outside the world of pin-ups - there'll never be another one quite like Bettie. I think that's part of her stuff's allure, aside from being ravishingly beautiful there was always an aura of carefree & fun coming through in her photos. Interestingly though she was in-demand for that sort of material, Bettie never had any interest in bondage in her personal life – she considered it harmless, if a bit silly. Bettie's most fruitful partnership came with bondage photographer Irving Klaw, who created custom photosets and film reels for clients based around the (now well-established) BDSM tropes: spanking, catfights, leather boots & fishnets, riding crops, etc. After a stint with secretarial work, she broke into the modeling scene especially the so-called nude “camera clubs” - before long her distinctive black bangs, luscious body, and singular charm was being featured in various girlie mags of the era. Born in 1923 in Nashville, voted “Most Likely To Succeed” in high school and then graduated salutatorian of her class, Bettie then bounced around from California to Miami to Haiti before arriving in New York City. Much has been written & said about The Queen Of Pin-ups elsewhere, and better than we could, so we'll stick to the basic facts. When all was said & done, she tallied over 200 films and performed many scenes alongside (and underneath) such male mainstays as John Holmes, Jamie Gillis, Paul Thomas, etc, and wound up in basically every adult industry Hall Of Fame out there. And her original plan did indeed come to fruition - Seka routinely played strong independent women who knew what they wanted & how to get it, a stark departure for an industry that typically depicted females as passive and degraded. ![]() She adopted the moniker "Seka" from a female blackjack dealer she once knew in Vegas, then relocated to Los Angeles to start her adult movie career. Thinking she could do better, a legend was born. Later, while owning several adult bookstores Dorothiea - or Dottie as she was known - became exposed to the world of porn (she repaired the film reels when they inevitably broke) and took issue with their "nasty representation" of women. She was born to Irish-Cherokee parents who named her Dorothiea Ivonniea Hundley, and had a self-described "normal" upbringing in Virginia which included multiple beauty pageant coronations and a short-lived shotgun marriage at age 18. Platinum-haired and with an unmistakable charisma & camera presence, Seka is one of the most recognizable adult actresses of the 1970s.
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