Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 26, 1941
Place of Birth
Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
Credits
28 titles
Rita Bennett
Biography
Lovely, shapely, and captivating brunette Rita Bennett was born on January 26, 1941 in Glen Cove, New York. An only child, Rita grew up in a dysfunctional household in Long Island. Unhappy with her turbulent home life, Bennett focused primarily on her burgeoning comely looks as a teenager. Rita left home at age sixteen and moved into a room in a Manhattan apartment with five girls who she barely knew. Bennett soon started modeling and was featured in ads in both newspapers and magazines as well as on billboards (she even was the face of an ad campaign for a Manhattan department store). Rita appeared in her first soft-core film in 1961. Among the notable East Coast soft-core cinema directors that Bennett appeared in films for are Joseph W. Sarno, Barry Mahon, William Rose, and John Amero and Lem Amero. Outside of acting, Rita also worked as a stripper in the tri-state area on the East Coast and managed to land the occasional small role in a major mainstream movie in which she was cast to type as a stripper. Bennett quit acting and stripping in the mid-1980's and went on to focus on fashion and animal welfare instead. Alas, Rita had serious problems with alcoholism throughout her life. Bennett died in 2017. Her body was unclaimed and ultimately wound up buried in a potter's field.
Known For
Filmography
Raging Bull
Emma - Miss 48's
All That Jazz
Stripper
High Rise
Stripper
Flying Acquaintances
Betty
Some of My Best Friends Are...
Is There Sex After Death?
Bambi Ferguson (uncredited)
The Projectionist
Harem Girl (uncredited)
Teresa... Darling
Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name
Go-Go Dancer
Going Down for the 3rd Time
Decameron '69
Too Much Too Often!
Rita
The Diary of Knockers McCalla
Confessions of a Psycho Cat
Sex Inserts
Come Play with Me
Clarice
Vibrations
Georgia (uncredited)
Professor Lust
Diary of a Swinger
Jeannie (as Joanna Cunningham)
The Sex Killer
Sunbather
Lusting Hours
Call Girl (uncredited)
File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted
Corpse
The Secret Dream Models of Oliver Nibble
The Bed and How to Make It!
Karen
Sin in the City
Prostitutes Protective Society
Prostitute
The Love Cult
Cultist
Crazy Wild and Crazy
Girl Running in Slow Motion (uncredited)
Nude in Charcoal
Backstage Model