Clyda Rosen

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Clyda Rosen

Birth location:	Israel
Birth name:	Vietta Taff
Height:	4' 10" (1.47 m)
Natural breasts:	yes
Ethnicity:	Israeli

Clyda Rosen (born Vietta Taff in Israel) was a popular topless model and pornography star in the 1970s London pornograohy scene, renowned for her very large bust and very thick, dark, and noticeable tummy "Hair Trail" and pubic hair. It is felt by many that she had the most perfect body of all time.

Clyda was discovered in the early 1970a by Harrison Marks, who used her both as a glamour model in his photography and as an actress in his 8mm films which at the time were being filmed in both hard and soft core versions. The films Marks made with Rosen include Autograph Hunter, in which Clyda plays a groupie who breaks into the home of rock star Randy Tool, and Dolly Mixture, a horror spoof in which Clyda plays the female creation of a mad doctor who indulges in mammary sex with the doctor’s hunchbacked assistant. The most famous of the Marks/Rosen 8mm films was Die Lollos (a.k.a. The Customs, Strange Customs) in which Clyda attempts to smuggle pornography through British customs. For years it was rumored that John Cleese played the role of the customs inspector, however this was subsequently revealed to be a look-a-like. Die Lollos was also filmed in a black and white soft core version called Unaccustomed as I Am with a different actor playing the customs officer. A third version of the film, Duty Free, has a different actress playing the Clyda role.

In the mid-1970s, Clyda dramatically reinvented herself, having a breast reduction operation as a result of a back complaint, cutting her hair short and billing herself as Vietta Manning. Her ‘Manning’ era work includes the hardcore loops, Siebzehn Jahre, Massage Salon Elvia and Marks’ Tea and Crumpet, plus her only feature film role in Sex Maniacs (1977) shot in cloak and dagger circumstances by Lasse Braun and an all British crew using pseudonyms.

Clyda continued performing in pornography in the 1980s and 1990s appearing in the German hardcore magazine Touch Me #1 (1986) and lesbian video Tit to Tit 3 (1991), Pregnant and Milking in the UK 2 (1994), Busty Sensations 9 (1992) and Hirsute Lovers (1991), a fetish tape in which Clyda seduces a woman with extensive body hair. In keeping with her age, these videos feature her in ‘older woman’ mode; however, her remarkably well-preserved look in the tapes is more closer to her original Clyda Rosen image than the Vietta Manning period. Now retired, she has one son.