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Living Venus

  • 19611961
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 16m
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5.8/10
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Living Venus (1961)
Drama
Man and his partner, a photographer, start up a men's magazine called "Pagan." The magazine becomes a success, he leaves his fiancee, marries his star model, and complications ensue.Man and his partner, a photographer, start up a men's magazine called "Pagan." The magazine becomes a success, he leaves his fiancee, marries his star model, and complications ensue.Man and his partner, a photographer, start up a men's magazine called "Pagan." The magazine becomes a success, he leaves his fiancee, marries his star model, and complications ensue.
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
111
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    • Herschell Gordon Lewis
  • Writers
    • David F. Friedman(original screenplay)
    • William Kerwin(uncredited)
    • Herschell Gordon Lewis(original screenplay)
  • Stars
    • William Kerwin
    • Harvey Korman
    • Danica D'Hondt
    • Herschell Gordon Lewis
  • Writers
    • David F. Friedman(original screenplay)
    • William Kerwin(uncredited)
    • Herschell Gordon Lewis(original screenplay)
  • Stars
    • William Kerwin
    • Harvey Korman
    • Danica D'Hondt
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    • 2User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    William Kerwin
    William Kerwin
    • Jack Norwall
    Harvey Korman
    Harvey Korman
    • Ken Carter
    Danica D'Hondt
    • Peggy Brandon
    Jeanette Leahy
    • Margo
    Lawrence J. Aberwood
    Lawrence J. Aberwood
    • Max Stein
    Linné Ahlstrand
    • Diane
    Robert Bell
    • Harry
    Lee Hauptman
    • Geoffrey Page
    Andrew Lindhoff
    • Diane's Father
    Edward Meekin
    • Benson
    Herbert Graham
    • Jim
    Charles Cook
    • Client at Pool
    Cherie Ross
    • Girl at Bar
    Clio Vias
    • Lorraine's Voice
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    Fran Harding
    • Lorraine's Legs
    John Perak
    John Perak
    • Editorial Staff
    Fred Knapp
    • Editorial Staff
    Adele Kelly
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      • Herschell Gordon Lewis
    • Writers
      • David F. Friedman(original screenplay)
      • William Kerwin(uncredited)
      • Herschell Gordon Lewis(original screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Included in a 1990 VHS series hosted by Joe Bob Briggs (John Bloom) titled "The Sleaziest Movies in the History of the World."
    • Connections
      Featured in Film House Fever (1986)
    • Soundtracks
      Pagan Party
      by Bob Scobey (as Bob Scobie)

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    6/10
    Herschell Gordon Lewis's not-that-bad first time out
    Cheap sexploitation, wallowing in its sleaze and punctuated by several not very relevant naked-lady sequences, this below-B epic has opportunist William Kerwin leaving his gig at a respectable wedding magazine to found a Playboy-like sex rag, aided by ace photographer Harvey Korman (!), and turning waitress Danica D'Hondt into a supermodel, who also turns improbably into a hopeless alcoholic when Kerwin rejects her. The main mystery in Gordon's and David Friedman's screenplay is what she, or his weepy prior fiancee, or anybody would see in him: He's ambitious, uncaring, shallow, and impatient, with a catchphrase of snapping his fingers and exhorting, "I guarantee it!" He also has a faithful secretary, Janette Leahy, who goes through over a bottle of scotch a day, which is supposed to be funny. Kerwin can't bring this rotter any charm, but Korman amiably plays an amiable shlub, and D'Hondt, despite her character's impossible character arc, is actually touching. Sleazy as it is, Lewis got sleazier, Still, as an indicator of what dirty old men and lewd young schoolboys thought was hot 60 years ago, it's interesting.
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      • February 1961 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • Production company
      • Mid-Continental Films
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    • 1 hour 16 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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