Rita Renoir

French strip-teaser and actress (1934–2016)

Rita Renoir (19 January 1934 – 4 May 2016)^[1] was a French strip-teaser and actress.

Biography

Renoir was the Vedette of the Crazy Horse Saloon, in Paris, between the 1950s and 1960s, becoming one of the most famous European strip-teasers.^[2]^[3]

In 1964 Renoir was chosen by Michelangelo Antonioni to play the role of Emilia in The Red Desert,^[2] and the following year she made her theatrical debut in René de Obaldia's Du vent dans les branches de sassafras, alongside Michel Simon.^[4] In 1967 Renoir was the lead actress in Jean-Jacques Lebel's representation of the Pablo Picasso's drama Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue (Desire Caught by the Tail).^[5]^[6]

Filmography

1953 : Les Compagnes de la nuit
1958 : Le Sicilien
1962 : Commandant X (TV)
1963 : Mondo di notte n. 3
1963 : Dragées au poivre
1964 : Ni figue ni raisin (TV)
1964 : The Red Desert
1966 : Chappaqua
1967 : Fantômas contre Scotland Yard
1970 : Cannabis
1975 : Le Futur aux trousses
1981 : Sois belle et tais-toi
1982 : The Angel
1984 : Lire c'est vivre : Élie Faure, Vélasquez et les Ménines (TV)

References

^ "Mort de Rita Renoir, comédienne et célèbre strip-teaseuse". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2016-05-23.
^ ^a ^b Panorama, Edizioni 1938-1941. Mondadori, 2003.
^ Antonella Giannone, Patrizia Calefato. Manuale di comunicazione, sociologia e cultura della moda: Performance. Meltemi Editore srl, 2007.
^ Gershon Legman. Rationale of the dirty joke: an analysis of sexual humor, Volume 1. Simon and Schuster, 2006.
^ Jean Jacques Lebel, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux. Poésie directe. Fall Edition, 1994.
^ Laurel Jean Fredrickson. Kate Millett and Jean-Jacques Lebel: Sexual outlaws in the intermedia borderlands of art and politics.