Lori Williams
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Lori Williams (born March 23, 1946) is an American actress whose claim to fame rests on a co-starring role in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.
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[edit] Brief acting career
A native of Pittsburgh, Lori Williams had a brief performing career concentrated in 1964-65, with sporadic appearances trailing into 1970. She was a smiley-faced blonde bombshell in some of AIP's beach party movies of the mid-1960s as well as in three Elvis Presley films, all of which were primarily produced for a teenage audience. However, the role which has given her a near-cult status was as one of the three thrill-seeking go-go dancers in Russ Meyer's now-iconic erotic action favorite, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.
In her early twenties, near the end of her acting career, Lori Williams was a semi-regular in the linking segments during the first season (1969-70) of ABC's hour-long anthology of sitcom sketches, Love, American Style. In 1981 she could be fleetingly seen in a non-speaking role as part of a large group in the filmed-for-HBO version of the Children's Theater Company & School of Minneapolis production of The Marvelous Land of Oz.
[edit] Reappearance in the Pussycat documentary
Lori Williams resurfaced in the March 2005 30-minute documentary Go, Pussycat, Go!, reminiscing with co-stars Tura Satana, Haji and Susan Bernard about the 40th anniversary of the making of the Russ Meyer grindhouse classic. Looking much younger than her 59 years, she presented a highly articulate and attractive personality, revealing behind-the-scenes details of the director's unique style.
[edit] Trivia
According to Tom Lisanti's book, Drive-In Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties (2003), Lori Williams and Elvis Presley went together for a while between the making of two of Presley's 1964 films, Kissin' Cousins (released March 6) and Roustabout (released November 11). She was 17 during the filming of Kissin' Cousins and recounted that their "courtship was not some bizarre story. It was very sweet and Elvis was the perfect gentleman".
[edit] Filmography
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
- A Swingin' Summer (1965)
- It's a Bikini World (1967)
