The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976)

Director:

Radley Metzger

Writer:

Jake Barnes (screenplay)

Genre:

Adult | Comedy | Romance

Plot:

Pornography meets Pygmalion. Misty, the hooker, meets the sexologist who thinks he can transform her...

Plot Keywords:

Foursome | Naked Woman | Erection | Sexual Humor | Nude Man

Awards:

5 wins

Cast

Constance Money	...	Dolores 'Misty' Beethoven
Jamie Gillis	...	Dr. Seymour Love
Jacqueline Beudant	...	Geraldine Rich
Terri Hall	...	Tanya
Ras Kean	...	Lawrence Lehman (as Ras King)
Gloria Leonard	...	Barbara
Calvin Culver	...	Impotent Art Dealer (as Casey Donovan)
Mary Stuart	...	Flight Attendant with Cigar
Jenny Baxter	...	Flight Attendant (as Janet Baldwin)
Cynthia Gardner
Helene Simone
Marlene Willoughby	...	Final Maid (as Marlene Parker)

Also Known As:

Misty Beethoven (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
Society (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

85 min | Italy:90 min | Sweden:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 | UK:R | UK:R18 (DVD) | USA:X | Australia:X | UK:(Banned)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Crescent Films

Trivia:

Film's plot is based on the Pygmalion legend.

Quotes:

Misty Beethoven: What's the biggest difference between New York and Rome?
Seymour Love: There aren't as many Italians in Rome.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "SexTV: Sextv Roundtable: Shooting Porn (#5.23)" (2003)

Imagination, dialog and a storyline in a porn film!

Try crossing My Fair Lady with Deep Throat and you'll end up with "The Opening of Misty Beethoven", a porn film with good production values, surprisingly decent acting, and a young, knockout female lead actress.

This film could never have been made today where all you see are numerous gynecological closeups with copious amounts of spewing bodily fluids. Instead you are treated to an imaginative film with a lot of laughs wrapped around enough sex to earn it's XXX rating.

Constance Money, worth seeing in this film by herself, plays the Eliza Doolittle role as the classless gum popping French street hooker (Misty Beethoven) who gives hand jobs in a dingy Paris movie theater. Jamie Gillis plays the Henry Higgins part as Dr Seymour Love, willing to take on Misty and turn her from this cheap trollop into a high class "Goldenrod Girl" with the help of Jacqueline Beaudant (a female Colonel Pickering?).

There are some very funny sequences on the adult airlines and in the training sequences which brought to mind the "Rocky" films. The sex is not of the grind house variety that you find in most XXX films but it is highly erotic, entertaining and with Ms. Money, surprisingly romantic. This is a jewel of an erotic film.