Althea Currier

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Althea Currier (born 1942) was a popular glamour model and erotic B-movie star of the 1960s. She was supposedly born in England but raised in Woodland, Maine.^{[citation needed]}

She moved to Southern California and worked as a dance instructor for almost two years at a studio on the Sunset Strip with a partner named Jack Simmons. Currier and Simmons were featured in the 1962 Volume 6, No. 6 issue of Adam magazine in a photo layout of a "twist party". Althea supposedly worked as chorus girl in San Francisco for a while.^{[citation needed]}

Althea was then supposedly "discovered" by Chuck Landis, who was the owner of the Largo Strip Club in L.A.^{[citation needed]} This led to Althea becoming involved in glamour/nude modeling; she appeared in many magazines of the era, including Mosaic, Modern Man, Adam, Scamp, All Man, etc. She is also featured in Adam magazine's 1964 full-color calendar.^{[citation needed]} Althea wrote an advice column in Adam magazine from 1964 to 1967, and appeared in occasional layouts in the magazine.^{[citation needed]}

Althea also appeared in films directed by Peter Perry and Russ Meyer.

[edit] Filmography

Erotica 1961 Directed by Russ Meyer; Mr. Peter's Pets 1962 Directed by Peter Perry; Heavenly Bodies! 1963 Directed by Russ Meyer; Knockers Up 1963 Directed by Peter Perry; Everybody Loves It 1964 Directed by David Friedman; Kiss Me Quick 1964 Directed by Peter Perry; Lorna 1964 Directed by Russ Meyer; Sinderella and the Golden Bra 1964 Directed by Loel Minardi; The Girls on F Street 1966 Directed by Saul Resnick;

[edit] Magazine Photo Layouts

Scamp 1961 Vol.5, No.3; Adam 1962 Vol.6, No.6; Sir Knight 1962 Vol.3, No.2; Mosaic 1962 No.4; RizKay 1962 No.1; Modern Man 1963 November; Adam 1963 Vol.7, No.11; Modern Man Annual 1963 Winter; French Follies 1964 Vol.2, No.1; Adam 1964 Vol.8, No.6; Adam 1965 Vol.9, No.6; Modern Man Deluxe 1966; Beau 1967 Vol.3 No.14; Candid Unknown Year, Vol.78, No.7;

[edit] References

Meyer, Russ (2000). A Clean Breast, Vols 1 & 3. The Hauck Publishing Company, Inc.. ISBN 0-9621797-0-3. 

Sullivan, Steve (1999). Glamour Girls, The Illustrated Encyclopedia. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-206151-8. 

Kemp, Marv (November 1963). "Russ Meyer: Nude Movie Mogul". Modern Man XIII (5-148): 29-32. 

(Winter 1963) "Nude Movies". Modern Man Annual 27: 21-52.