- Paula Rosenthal
Paula Rosenthal (born 24th November 1936 in
New York (Queens) - died 4th August 1972 inBern ,Switzerland ) is an American actress considered as the first "star" of the pornographic showbusiness. The one thatLinda Lovelace called "The inventor of modern sex" got famous in the still very small and confidential circle of pornogrphic cinema of the fifies when she proposed to Jim Lovett to shoot sodomy scenes in chiaroscuro (clear-dark). This is the so called proto-pornographique cinema.Biography
Born from a clerk and a night-club danser, Paula Rosenthal was raised in the Queens, where she met Sammy Thales and Ginevra Lance. On her 17th birthday she meets her future husband, Tim Myers, in the night-club where her mother worked. Financial problems obliged Myers to change his club into a brothel. He was Paula's main impulsion to become a dancer and a prostitute.Four of the six short movies that were considered as lost since the fire of the
Gampelen Castle [http://www.swisscastles.ch/Bern/gampelen.html] (Switzerland ) in 1969, where Paula Rosenthal had lived for several years, have been found in a charity fair in 1994. (Source : Berner Stadtarchiv [http://www.bern.ch/weiche_de] )Filmography
About twenty movies (short films) shot beteween 1954 and 1960, censored, and six other films including "Faster Dicky" (1958) and "Mantube" (1962) - the latter was the main source of inspiration of
Gerard Damiano for his movieDeep Throat .Other links
A tribute to Paula Rosenthal by Swiss writer and director
Patrick Moser [http://dbserv1-bcu.unil.ch/persovd/auteurvd.php?Code=&Num=5144] 2006 - Switzerland - only in FrenchLes Nuits torrides de Paula Rosenthal [http://video.moncinema.ch/video/iLyROoaftutU.html] (Swiss TV broadcast).
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