Cheri Caffaro

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Cheri Caffaro is an actress appearing mainly in soft-core pornographic movies. She was born April 29, 1945, and first came to fame as a teenager when she won a Lifetime magazine Brigitte Bardot look-a-like contest.

[edit] Career

In the early '70s, she was directed by then-husband Don Schain in a series of soft-core "sexploitation" action films, most notably the "Ginger" series, consisting of Ginger, The Abductors, and Girls Are For Loving. Caffaro played Ginger McAlister, a tough & resourceful bed-hopping private-eye & spy. Her missions involved busting up seedy wrongdoers involved in drugs, prostitution, and white slavery.

She also appeared in A Place Called Today and Too Hot To Handle (both also directed by Schain). An R-rated Pearl White, Caffaro was kidnapped, bound, mouth taped, & usually nude in all but one or two films. She was quickly stereotyped, became disenchanted with the direction her film career had taken and, like Bettie Page before her, disappeared from the public eye. Caffaro's films have since developed a cult status among bondage enthusiasts because of the frequency with which she and/or her female co-stars are tied and gagged.

She has also been credited with an appearance on the TV show Baretta, and as a writer and producer of the 1980s sex comedy H.O.T.S. Her last screen credit is noted as a character voice in an episode of the 1997 animated series Extreme Ghostbusters.