PATRICIA "Patti" D'ARBANVILLE APPEARED IN TWO WARHOL FILMS, AND AS CAT STEVENS' GROUPIE/OLD LADY, SHE INSPIRED HIS 'LADY D'ARBANVILLE' FROM THEIR ONE-MONTH SEPARATION; HOWEVER, HER MOST NOTABLE CLAIM TO FAME CAME IN 1977, WHERE SHE PLAYED THE LEAD ROLE IN David Hamilton's 'BILITIS' [SOFT-CORE, FRENCH, HORNY FANTASY OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS' COMING-OF-AGE [DIRECTED BY THE MAN WHO INVENTED SOFT-FOCUS PHOTOGRAPHY!].
ABOUT THIS CLIP:
PATTI D. READS A SELECTION FROM 'HER' CHAPTER
WHICH DESCRIBES A 1956, MOONLIT BEACH ENCOUNTER IN BILOXI, MS, BETWEEN ELVIS PRESLEY AND, THEN, 16-YEAR-OLD, ASIAN STRIPPER, Tura Satana [STAR OF "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" Russ Meyer, 1965], WHOSE CLAIM IT IS, ACCORDING TO P.D. IN PDB'S BOOK, IN INTERVIEW [DETAILS ARE NOT STATED?], THAT TURA TAUGHT ELVIS THE FINE ART OF KISSING AND CUNNILINGUS OVER THE PERIOD OF A FEW WEEKS? MONTHS? [THERE ARE ALSO DETAILS ON THE SIZE OF "L'IL E"].
INCLUDED IN PAMELA DES BARRES' "Let's Spend the Night Together..." --July 9 2007, NYC
[*on some of this information, i'm inclined to agree with 'groupie blog;' not so much from the incorrect spelling, but from the extremely common PR practice of "retrospective sex-linking," usually used by non-celebrities, seeking publicity--certainly not the case here [although PDB's cum-well must be running dry]; however until, i can prove otherwise, i'm giving Tura, P.D & PDB the benefit of the doubt]
Andy Warhol Interview Magazine, April 1973
"Patti D'Arbanville is a young actress who has appeared in three films to date: Flesh, L'Amour and La Maison, which was a critical and commercial success in France. She has been through the pop hippy scene in New York and California, the rock groupie scene in London, the chic ready to wear scene in Paris, always traveling fast and light."
INTERVIEW:
Patti D'Arbanville: There's such freedom in something like L'Amour that I just run wild. I mean, at times I was just foaming at the mouth. I haven't seen the film, just some rushes of me in the bathtub, and I was quiet for a change. I grew up on Bleecker and MacDougal. The Figaro was right across the street...I asked my mother if I could stay out until midnight...she said, 'Well, of course, it's only across the street.' Then I started going to Ondine. Then I decided to go to California with these two girls and my best girlfriend who was pregnant. We had spent all the money for her abortion on mescaline and spent three nights in a hotel with some boys freaked out on mescaline. We got $1,000 for the abortion by going up to this guy in Ondine and asking him for it...I made Flesh the...I went back to California, back to New York...Bert Stern took me to Paris to do the collections...went to London and stayed at Donald Cammell's house for a couple of months. Then I went to Hollywood to do a movie with *Nic Roeg...It was called "Deadly Honeymoon"... but it didn't work out. Jim Aubrey didn't like what Nic had done to the script...Nic wouldn't do it any way but his own..Steven wrote that song [Lady D'Arbanville by Cat Stevens] when I left for New York. I left for a month, it wasn't the end of the world was it? But he wrote this whole song: 'Lady D'Arbanville, why do you sleep so still.' It's about me dead. So while I was in New York, for him it was like I was lying in a coffin...he wrote that because he missed me, because he was down... It's a sad song.
BIO:
Patricia D'Arbanville
Born May 25, 195, NYC
daughter of George and Jean (nee Egan) D'Arbanville
MARRIAGES:
Roger Mirmont (actor), 1975 (divorced)
Steve Curry (actor, singer), 1980 (divorced)
Terry Quinn 1993 (separated)
*Child with actor, Don Johnson
[Jesse Wayne]
Add Tura Satana to your collection!
TURA
SATANA
Tura Satana, born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi July 10, 1938 in HokkaidÅ, Japan, is a Japanese-born American actress and former exotic dancer.
She is mostly remembered for her role as "Varla" in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Best known as Varla from the 1965 exploitation film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, actress Tura Satana is brought to life in this officially licensed, limited edition statue!
Standing 12" tall, the statue was designed and sculpted by Mark Alfresco and comes with a limited edition poster by Mike Hoffman.
Sure to be sought after by film buffs and connoisseurs of exploitation cinema,
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Tura Satana
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Tura
Satana
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Pamela and Patti spelled her name in the video as Toru Setana [sic].So can we believe the story about Elvis,
if they even can’t spell her name right?Here she is in the 1965 film by Russ Meyer,Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Together with Haji and Lori Williams
The original trailer
Variety reports that Quentin Tarentino is gonna do a remake with…
Britney Spears…
Later, Tura Satana looked like this
