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User Rating:
7.6/10   489 votes
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Director:
Radley Metzger
Writer:
Jake Barnes (screenplay)
Contact:
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Genre:
Adult | Comedy | Romance more
Plot:
Pornography meets Pygmalion. Misty, the hooker, meets the sexologist who thinks he can transform her... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
5 wins more
User Reviews:
Imagination, dialog and a storyline in a porn film! more (16 total)

Cast

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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)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Andrews ... Servant with Slicked Hair (uncredited)
Terry Austin ... Brothel Patron (uncredited)
Nancy Dare ... Blonde Maid (uncredited)
Michael Gaunt ... Geraldine's Male Prostitute (uncredited)
Grover Griffith ... Speculating Guy (uncredited)

Mark Margolis ... Unhappy Guy on Plane (uncredited)
Ian Morley ... First Guy in Limousine (uncredited)
Bill Smith ... Servant with Geraldine (uncredited)
Crystal Sync ... Maid with Geraldine (uncredited)
Tia von Davis ... Pilot's Wife (uncredited)
David Williams ... Guy Serviced on Plane (uncredited)

Directed by
Radley Metzger  (as Henry Paris)
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Jake Barnes  screenplay

Produced by
L. Sultana .... producer
 
Original Music by
Elephant's Memory (uncredited)
 
Cinematography by
Robert Rochester (photography)
 
Film Editing by
Bonnie Karrin 
 
Art Direction by
Anton Stone 
 
Art Department
Isabelle Stone .... assistant art director
 
Sound Department
Harold Keller .... sound mixer
Joe Masefield .... sound effects
 
Music Department
George Craig .... music supervisor
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Misty Beethoven (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
Society (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
85 min | Italy:90 min | Sweden:90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
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 more
Company:
Crescent Films more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Film's plot is based on the Pygmalion legend. more
Quotes:
Misty Beethoven: What's the biggest difference between New York and Rome?
Seymour Love: There aren't as many Italians in Rome.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Girlfriend Experience (2009) more

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19 out of 20 people found the following review useful.
Imagination, dialog and a storyline in a porn film!, 12 February 2005
9/10
Author: paullee01 from United States

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.

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