Vintage Pulp | Sep 10 2009 |
The sexploitation film Starlet, featuring Deirdre Nelson as an actress trying make it big in Hollywood, and Shari Mann as the roommate who is swept along for the ride, is a more serious film than the festive promo poster suggests. It’s sort of like a low budget Valley of the Dolls, with quite a bit of mise-en-abîme action devoted to the process of shooting low budget nudie flicks. You can see a trailer for Starlet here, and for you BDSM types, check this rather amusing clip of Shari Mann being whipped by pilgrims during a take from one of the films-within-a-film, as her director and a few producers stand by shaking their heads at the atrocious quality of her acting. We shook our heads a few times too, but the movie remains worth a look. Starlet premiered in the U.S. today in 1969.