Cheri Caffaro

Cheri Caffaro is an American actress who appeared mainly in low-budget exploitation films in the 1970s.^[1][2]

Cheri Caffaro
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1971–1977
Spouse	Don Schain ​ ​ (m. 1971; div. 1982)​

Career

In 1960, a fifteen-year-old Pasadena resident, she won a Life-magazine-reported Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest,^[3] beating a twelve-year-old Portland Mason.^[4]

In the early 1970s, she was directed by then-husband and Manhattan theatre owner Don Schain in a series of softcore sexploitation action films,^[5] most notably the "Ginger" trilogy, consisting of Ginger, The Abductors^{[6][7] [8]}and Girls Are For Loving. Caffaro played Ginger McAllister, a tough and resourceful bed-hopping private-eye and spy. Her missions involved busting up seedy wrongdoers involved in drugs, prostitution and white slavery. Her character also spends an inordinate amount of time bound and gagged^[9] and/or raped.^[10][11][12]

Caffaro also appeared in A Place Called Today and Too Hot To Handle^[13] (both also directed by Schain). She was quickly stereotyped, became disenchanted with the direction her film career had taken and disappeared from the public eye.^{[citation needed]}

She has also been credited with an appearance on the TV show Baretta, and as a writer and producer of the 1979 sex comedy H.O.T.S. Her last screen credit is noted as a character voice in an episode of the 1997 animated TV series Extreme Ghostbusters.

Filmography

• Ginger (1971)
• Up Your Alley (1971)
• The Abductors (1972)
• A Place Called Today (1972)
• Girls Are for Loving (1973)
• Savage Sisters (1974)
• Too Hot to Handle (1977)^[14]

References

1. "Official website of Cheri Caffaro".
2. "Article clipped from Tampa Bay Times". Tampa Bay Times. June 1, 1979. p. 59. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
3. "Carroll Baker". Life Magazine. November 28, 1960. Retrieved June 19, 2022 – via Old Life Magazines. Facsimiles of Bardot, a fun article about a Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest with Robin Nile, Cheri Caffaro, the winner.
4. "Kids Win a BB Match". Life. Time Inc. December 5, 1960. p. 65. Retrieved June 19, 2022. via google books
5. Means, Sean P. "Don Schain, producer behind 'High School Musical,' Utah's movie industry, dies at 74". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
6. Canby, Vincent (January 29, 1972). "The Screen:'The Abductors' Begins Run at the DeMille". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
7. Craig, Rob (March 5, 2019). American International Pictures: A Comprehensive Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-6631-0.
8. Clark, Randall (December 17, 2013). At a Theater or Drive-in Near You: The History, Culture, and Politics of the American Exploitation Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-92908-6.
9. Piselli, Stefano; Morocchi, Riccardo (2003). Sexy Eroine: Erotic Heroines in Movies (in Italian). Glittering images. ISBN 978-88-8275-043-5.
10. McMurtry, Larry. Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood. p. 201.
11. Meyers, Ric (2011). For One Week Only: The World of Exploitation Films. Eirini Press. ISBN 978-0-9799989-3-5.
12. Filmfacts. Division of Cinema of the University of Southern California. 1972.
13. Doupe', Tyler (June 14, 2022). "These 5 Under-Seen Exploitation Efforts are a Brutal, Sleazy Good Time". Dread Central. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
14. Donlon, Jon Griffin (December 5, 2013). Bayou Country Bloodsport: The Culture of Cockfighting in Southern Louisiana. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-7247-5.

External links

• Cheri Caffaro at IMDb