Mary Mendum

Mary Mendum

Born: February 21, 1952
Died: July 17, 2012
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Mary Mendum was born on February 21, 1952. She grew up in a poor family outside of Chicago. She began her acting career in the early '70s in stage productions of her then boyfriend Michael Butler such as "Hair" and "Lenny". Mendum started appearing in movies with small parts in adult pictures for director Chuck Vincent and posed for nude layouts in a few prominent men's magazines. She achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with her outstanding portrayal of Anne in Radley Metzger's movie The Image (1975).

Mary excelled in starring roles as often frustrated characters in several excellent Joseph W. Sarno softcore gems in the mid-1970s like Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974), Laura's Toys (1975) and Abigail Lesley Is Back in Town (1975). She further demonstrated her remarkable range and talent as an actress with her delightful comic turn as both meek and repressed chemist Dr. Shirley Jekyll and her more uninhibited and sexually aggressive alter ego Sherry Hyde in the amusing tongue-in-cheek romp The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego (1974). Outside of acting, Mary was a gifted cook and seamstress. Alas, Mary Mendum called it a day as an actress in 1977.

On July 17, 2012, she died in Boca Raton, FL, of an accidental drowning due to a fall.

Movies for Mary Mendum...

Overdose
Title: Overdose
Character: (archive)
Released: August 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Hot concentration of violence, mutilation and lust.
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Cherry Hill High
Title: Cherry Hill High
Character: Motorcyclist
Released: April 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Five recent graduates of an all-girl high school - Kippy, Sarah, Michelle, Peaches and Alison - attempt to lose their virginity during a two-week bicycle trip with their seemingly repressed teacher Miss Woodruff. The girls hold a contest to see who can lose their virginity in the most creative and original manner.
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Misty
Title: Misty
Character: Melissa 'Misty' Smith
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Misty arrives in a small town to look for her mother who abandoned her 22 years ago. She stays with a bisexual artist and her friends and models for her. Meanwhile, a Christian woman with a secret tries to save her perverted niece.
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Bang Bang You Got It!
Title: Bang Bang You Got It!
Character: Victim / Betty Anderson
Released: July 11, 1976
Type: Movie
A collection of sketches parodying various porn and TV tropes. Occasionally, between the segments, one of the performers will talk about his or her sexual fantasy in a more serious and straightforward way.
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Little Girl, Big Tease
Title: Little Girl, Big Tease
Character: Alva Coward
Released: July 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A 16 year-old society girl is kidnapped and exploited by a group of people including one of her high school teachers. One by one Virginia seduces her captors and is able to gain the upper hand.
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1001 Perversions of Felicia
Title: 1001 Perversions of Felicia
Character: Gabrielle
Released: September 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Paul and Gabrielle, a young married couple, take in their neighbor's teenage daughter, Felicia, for a few weeks in the summer. It isn't long before the precocious and seductive Felicia sets her sights on the two of them.
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The Image
Title: The Image
Character: Anne
Released: September 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Jean discovers that Anne cannot get enough of being humiliated by her mistress, Claire. Gentleman that he is, he decides to partake in the activities. Ultimately, Claire surrenders to him as well.
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Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town
Title: Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town
Character: Priscilla Howe
Released: September 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Abigail Leslie has been away for years but has now returned to the small town of Baypoint, where her sexual appetite made her infamous. Abigail is a woman who is serious about her carnal pursuits, and upon her return she immediately re-establishes her pursuit of the flesh of a lonely tomboy who has a longing for her brother, a repressed housewife who harbors a hidden love of the ladies, and a troubled husband and wife, Abigail having seduced the husband prior to her departure years earlier.
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The Blazer Girls
Title: The Blazer Girls
Character: Pam (as Rebecca Brooke)
Released: May 24, 1975
Type: Movie
A group of private-school seniors want to raise money to buy a new bell for their school, so they hit on the idea of putting themselves on the market.
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Laura's Toys
Title: Laura's Toys
Character: Laura
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Archaeologist Walter and his wife Laura are working at a dig on a small island off the coast of Sweden. One day Laura catches Walter having a go at it with his sexy assistant, Anna. Laura calls in her old friend--and former lesbian lover--Hanni to help get her revenge on Walter by having she and Hanni seduce Anna.
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The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego
Title: The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego
Character: Dr. Shirley Jekyll / Shirley Hyde (as Veronica Parrish)
Released: December 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A shy, withdrawn female scientist invents a formula that turns her into a horny, oversexed nymphomaniac.
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The Groove Tube
Title: The Groove Tube
Character: Sex Olympics
Released: June 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Television programming takes it on the chin in this ribald spoof of the networks.
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Confessions of a Young American Housewife
Title: Confessions of a Young American Housewife
Character: Carol
Released: June 11, 1974
Type: Movie
An attractive but conservative mid-30's housewife stays at the house of her sexually open daughter and soon becomes involved in her daughter's swinger lifestyle.
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Mrs. Barrington
Title: Mrs. Barrington
Character: Esther Harrison
Released: May 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Mrs. Barrington (the character) can't seem to keep her rich husbands alive. They always die off, with her help, leaving her with loads of money. After all, a girl's got to make a living.
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Happily Ever After
Title: Happily Ever After
Character: The Bride
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A woman takes revenge on the three college men who abused her a decade earlier.
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Grace's Place
Title: Grace's Place
Character: Donna DiJon
Released: September 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A bored housewife becomes a stripper as a hobby. This leads her into prostitution and before long, she wants out of it.