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Regina Carrol
Acting

Regina Carrol
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1943-05-02,Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
The buxom, lively and attractive blonde bombshell named Regina Carrol was a dancer, singer and actress who achieved her greatest enduring cult popularity by appearing in a handful of entertainingly trashy drive-in exploitation feature films directed by her filmmaker husband Al Adamson. She was born Regina Gelfan on May 2, 1943 in Boston, Massachusetts. Carrol began doing auditions for plays when she was 5. She performed in stage productions of "West Side Story," "The Children's Hour," "Wish You Were Here" and "Daddy Long Legs." Carrol's mother died of cancer when she was 15. Carrol worked as a dancer in Las Vegas, Nevada and toured Europe with her night club act. In addition, she hosted her own TV interview series called "The Regina Carrol Show" and wrote an entertainment column for the newspaper "The Las Vegas Panorama." She was discovered and convinced to go into films by actor Steve Cochran. Carrol made appearances on the TV series "The Dinah Shore Show," "Route 66" and "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet." She made her film debut as a dancer in "The Beat Generation" and had uncredited small parts in "The Glass Bottom Boat," "The Slender Thread," the delightful Elvis Presley romp "Viva Las Vegas" (she dated Elvis for a short time while making this film), "Two Rode Together" and "From the Terrace." Carrol then gave a memorably wild performance as the crazed biker mama Gina in the splendidly sleazy Satan's Sadists (1969) (she was billed as "the freak-out girl" in the advertisements for this film). Other notable film roles of hers at this time include the daffy Lori in the amusing Blazing Stewardesses (1975), the feisty cowgirl Claire in the gritty revenge Western Jessi's Girls (1975), and the melancholy lounge singer Valerie in the nifty blaxploitation film Black Heat (1976) (she sings the forlorn ballad "No More Mail Until Tomorrow" in this film). Carrol ended her career performing cabaret on stage and died of cancer at the tragically young age of 49 on November 4, 1992. - IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders

Filmography

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

4.5

Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971-12-01

6.1

Viva Las Vegas
1964-02-08

The Female Bunch

4.8

The Female Bunch
1971-09-01

4.8

Girls for Rent
1974-10-01

Blazing Stewardesses

3.3

Blazing Stewardesses
1975-06-01

2.9

Carnival Magic
1983-03-04

2.9

Brain of Blood
1971-08-01

4.5

Black Heat
1976-06-01

Satan's Sadists

4.8

Satan's Sadists
1969-06-01

The Beat Generation

5.1

The Beat Generation
1959-07-03

5.6

Black Samurai
1976-12-22

Angels' Wild Women

4.8

Angels' Wild Women
1972-05-03

Blood of Ghastly Horror

3.2

Blood of Ghastly Horror
1967-12-17

5.3

Jessi's Girls
1975-04-01

4.2

Doctor Dracula
1978-03-02

Two Rode Together

6.42

Two Rode Together
1961-05-24

From the Terrace

6.612

From the Terrace
1960-07-15

The Slender Thread

7.1

The Slender Thread
1965-12-15

The Glass Bottom Boat

6.3

The Glass Bottom Boat
1966-06-09

The Naughty Stewardesses

4.1

The Naughty Stewardesses
1973-11-15

4.5

Nurse Sherri
1978-08-01