Russ Meyer, director of Pin-up Girls

Let’s talk about movies and ultravixens sexploitation director Russ Meyer. Best known for his obsession with breasts, he began his career as a photographer for the magazine Playboy in the 1950s, and in that role filled several of the magazine’s middle pages.

As a sleazemeister film maker,  “nudie” director Russ Meyer was  famous for his girls in bikinis, ie, well endowed Amazons in films like Mudhoney, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill!,  Beneath the Valley of the Dolls, and Under the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens.

In the decade of the 1950’s, this director made a few films including Burlesque! In the movies, Entitled Teaserama as well as Variatease, burlesque queens Tempest Storm and Lili St. Cyr, joined the silver screen with pin-up star Bettie Page!

His most famous film stars included busty Kitten Natividad and Tura Satana, girls who were famous pin-ups in their own right. Tura Satana was a dancer before being discovered by Meyer.

His Femme Fatale pinup girls are famous poster girls used to market 60′ and 70′ bikini softcore sleaze … In the 1975 movie, Supervixens, Russ Meyer created a fabulous combination  of violence, sexy grinding and comedy….

Meyer seems to have been  permanently fixated on huge breasts! In fact, those  large breasted women  was a central trademark in all of his films. He discovered many actresses who were naturally well endowed, and became very famous. Russ Meyer Stars included: Kitten Natividad, Tura Satana, Lorna Maitland, and Uschi Digard.

When viewing a Meyer film,  with the physically and sexually overwhelming female characters, you may want to think of them as being  placed in their own separate genre. And while it may seem he presents women as sex objects, notice that they are all more powerful than their male counterparts in these films. So does that make him a feminist filmmaker? Was it conscious or unconscious? Today, we should just enjoy his films as they are – beautiful  pin-up girls and all…

Stacy Lande is a Los Angeles based artist, and her pin up art is most often placed in the lowbrow category. Her new website, about all things pinup, can be seen at http://www.i-love-pin-up-girls.com. Her book, The Red Box: The Phantasma-Allegorical Portraits of Stacy Lande, from Last Gasp press, features introductions from Robert Williams and Frank Kozik.

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