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Teresa Ann Savoy

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Thank you! And an extra thank you for actually checking our tags first. We’ve been in the arduous process of rebuilding our archives so we’re still filling in the blanks. As requested, here is Teresa Ann Savoy.

British actress Teresa Ann Savoy lived in Italy, where she made most of her films, including the Tinto Brass films Salon Kitty (1976) and Caligula (1979). ‘Terry’ fled from home at 16. She lived in a hippie community in Sicily. She was 18 years old when she appeared in the Italian adult magazine Playmen (1973). 

In 1975 Savoy met Tinto Brass and they worked together in the successful but bizarre film Salon Kitty (1976) with Helmut Berger and Ingrid Thulin. In the film she played a young BDM girl (League of German Maidens, a female Nazi youth organization) who becomes a spy that poses as a prostitute for the SS Nazi paramilitary organization. 

In 1976, Brass was involved in Caligula, produced by Bob Guccione, the owner of Penthouse magazine. It tells about the rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula. 

In the 1980s, she mainly played secondary roles such as in the TV mini-series La Certosa di Parma/The Charterhouse of Parma (Mauro Bolognini, 1982), featuring Marthe Keller. 

Teresa Ann Savoy died of cancer on 9 January 2017 in Milan, where she lived with her husband and two children. Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

Caligula / Cult Film / 1979

joelucah asked:
Can you also put some pictures of the movie Caligula? The best ones on ur page?


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“Helen Mirren admits that she did not mind baring all in one project—the 1979 erotic historical drama Caligula. Although it was critically panned upon release, the controversial film starring Malcolm McDowell and Peter O’Toole, and produced by Penthouse founder Bob Guccione, has since found a cult following. As for the reason why Mirren didn’t mind shooting her nude scene in the sexually overt drama: “Everyone was naked in that,” the actress tellsPeople, only half jokingly. “It was like showing up for a nudist camp every day. You felt embarrassed if you had your clothes on in that movie.

Shortly after filming, Mirren described the controversial picture as “an irresistible mix of art and genitals.” In the decades since, as she’s gone on to win myriad awards for her poignant dramatic performances, the Tony winner has stayed loyal to the project, in which she played Caligula’s wife, Caesonia. ‘I’ve never opened my mouth to denigrate Caligula,’ Mirren told The New York Times. ‘I was pretty young when I made that—not physically so much as experienced in film. And you know what? It was a great experience. It was like being sent down to Dante’s Inferno in many ways.’”
Julie Miller / Vanity Fair

08 Caligula Anneka Di Lorenzo and Lori Wagner.jpg

A pictorial of Anneka Di Lorenzo and Lori Wagner on the set of Caligula appeared in Penthouse magazine (1979).

10 Caligula Anneka Di Lorenzo and Lori Wagner.jpg

“On the afternoon of Jan. 4, two joggers found the body of a woman washed up on a Camp Pendleton beach, in a restricted no man’s land where Marines train for battle. The dead woman was naked and, though 58, her slender form was youthful enough that military police initially thought she was a teenager. Her name was Anneka Vasta, though she was called Anneka Di Lorenzo as the 1975 Penthouse Pet of the Year. Decades ago she led a life of B-list glamour, appearing in the 1979 soft-porn movie Caligula and dating Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione.

Family and federal investigators are mystified about how Vasta, who became a Los Angeles-area nursing assistant with a grown daughter, ended up drowned on a San Diego County beach with a broken neck and back.”