American Actresses ~ Vintage

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Originally Posted by johnbear

Born in Lexington Kentucky January 1st 1922 Died 1973 (51).
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372610/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

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Originally Posted by span4f

Mickey Frantz (IMDB) in Mr. Peter's Pets (1963)

What you see above was the only Vintage Erotica Forum reference of Mickey Frantz I could find, but now that I ran an in-site search, I discovered there were two others. I found it odd that Member "Span4f" would have singled out only the non-nude views of the actress from Mr. Peter's Pets, but in the same year of 2014 (and just two days later), I have learned he went into battle and did his duty (I believe this is why Norman Mailer named his book about military action, The Naked and the Dead; thank you for your service, Span4f..!), and provided these other views of Ms. Frantz in the way Zeus and Odin intended for her to be seen.


As "Woman with Goldfish."

My focus was not on Mickey, but when I dug up her one and only film as listed on her IMDb page linked above (although four years later she would additionally appear as herself in Mondo Topless; there is nothing else out there about the lady that came up for me), I gathered views of another actress from Mr. Peter's Pets (which went on to become this post, if you're curious), I thought Mickey was so fine, she blew my mind, Hey Mickey (ahhhhhh, women of the 1960s; there was something about them, all right). Ergo, I snipped these three photos you are seeing.













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[Wendigo]

Lenore Stevens
Born January 5, 1943
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0828559


from a poor copy of Beyond Atlantis (1973)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069783

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[tsunamiSD]

Originally Posted by johnbear

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At Los Angeles' Dynamic and
Diverse Emmy reception on
Sept. 12, 2017 (Photo: David
Buchan).

Originally Posted by DTravel

Jenny O'Hara
Born: February 24, 1942 in Sonora, California, USA



The valiant DTravel first took a look at our lady in 2015's Post #868
with photos from 1991's CAREER OPPORTUNITIES, and resumed his
study seven years later, in Post #1909 (also from this thread), while
checking her out from the 2009 movie, EXTRACT, pictured above.
The actress played a secretary, grounds she represented earlier in
her career, as described below.

Her IMDb filmography.

Jenny O'Hara has been connected with over one-hundred-and-seventy titles since first appearing onscreen in 1975; that's quite a record. Her last appearance was in June of last year, playing a doctor in one episode of the teen comedy TV series about an Indian-American girl, Never Have I Ever — at the age of eighty-one.


Middle: Confronting her daughter in SON OF ZORN. Last: Future son-in-law (Tim Meadows)
attempts to revive her from the dead.

I caught wind of Ms. O'Hara as the mother of the leading lady in Son of Zorn (episode entitled, "The Battle of Thanksgiving," 2016). I was attracted to her kind and inviting face (misleading, as her character turned out to be unpleasant and domineering). Having noticed her led to curiosity; the odds were, she was going to be an actress who has been at it for a long time. (Since the rare "old lady" parts usually go to screen veterans. I just prepared a post on a newcomer who surprisingly bucked this tide.)

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Jenny O'Hara appeared in seventeen episodes of THE MINDY PROJECT, as did Rhea Pearlman,
also seen in both photos above. The 2012-2017 sitcom was about quirky characters revolving
around a self-centered doctor (played by Mindy Kaling, who was the creator and producer of the
teen comedy mentioned above). First image is from the "Dinner at the Castellanos" episode, and
the second from "Doctors Without Boundaries." (Photos: Erica Parise and second, Jordin Althaus.)

Naturally, after discovering how Ms. O'Hara has been active in the business over a long period of time, I wanted to check her out from her "babe" period.

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First is from the "My Loose Thread" episode of RECOVERY ROAD (2016), a short-lived
TV show about recovering addicts. Such is not an example of her "babe" period, but the
second one begins that journey. She's with Charlotte Rae, the anchoring actress of THE
FACTS OF LIFE, episode entitled, "Rough Housing." (Photos by Kelsey McNeal and Paul
Drinkwater, respectively.)

Here's Jenny at the very outset of her career, as a secretary in The Rockford Files ("The Reincarnation of Angie"), from 1975; she was thirty-three.




With Larry Hagman below, in The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976). He's a cop who believes he's Sherlock Holmes after an accident, in a TV movie influenced by They Might Be Giants (1971) where George C. Scott suffered from the same delusion, and was treated by a female doctor named Watson (Joanne Woodward). The TV movie probably served as a pilot for a hoped-for TV series, and didn't make it (although the IMDb reviews are very favorable overall).



What's impressive is that Jenny was just one year into her onscreen acting career, and was cast in the number two role as "Dr. Watson." So while the actress was rarely at a loss to find jobs, it's too bad such starring roles seemed to be rare. The next photo depicts Ms. O'Hara from the "Smarts" episode of Family, from 1980. She also appeared on this program two years earlier. Last is from "The Search," a 1979 episode of Barney Miller.

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Another view of the lady from "The Search" begins the row below, where Jenny stands beside actors Jack Soo and Bruce Kirby. The actress' character reported her father to be missing for twenty-eight years, and Kirby is one of many who slept with her mother. Jenny first appeared on this cop comedy in "The Dentist," from 1978 (last two shots below, with Steve Landesberg and Hal Linden). After a woman reports a dentist for fondling her inappropriately, "Sergeant" Jenny goes undercover to catch the fiend in the act. She then is disappointed that the doctor didn't try any funny business.

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Lastly, judging from the first photo below, Jenny was quite striking in "Hellride," the very first episode of Charlie's Angels, from 1976. One of the angels goes undercover as a racing car driver to investigate an accident which took the life of a female driver, suspecting dirty pool. Jenny played a driver named "Bloody Mary," which makes her sound like a bad girl, and possibly a suspect.



The late seventies were incredibly busy for Ms. O'Hara, and she appeared in many of the big shows, such as Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, and Barnaby Jones. She has had an illustrious career, but stardom and even fame (since I wasn't aware of her, I love to assume most others were also in the dark) proved to be elusive.













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Part of the preparation for my Jenny O'Hara post seen directly above necessitated an investigation of where Jenny had formerly appeared on Vintage Erotica Forum. One of her handful of appearances came courtesy of prolific Member "DTravel" in 2022, and on the top of that page was a post for the blond honey from Daktari (her only VEF appearance), leading me to want to prepare a post for her on this thread. (This is why I have a backlog of materials for over a year; I just keep getting sidetracked.)

Another rare instance of Jenny O'Hara showing up on this American Actresses ~ Vintage thread came courtesy of DTravel (again), this time in 2015, and when I looked up a couple of posts on that page from 2015, I saw this:

Originally Posted by beutelwolf

Connoisseur, July 1964
(There are four more photos.)

For me, that was some voluptuously endowed vertigo-causing vixen, and this irresistible lady turned out to be Margo Mehling. My first stop in an attempt to learn more was her IMDb page, which turned out to have only three credits, two being "nudie-cuties," and while failing to dig up a copy of one, I managed to find the other.


This publicity still with rotten water-
marks was identified as derived from
the lady's other "nudie-cutie," MAGIC
SPECTACLES, her first screen venture
from 1961. She played "The Secretary."

This was a film called Mr. Peters' Pets (1962), where a loser manages to turn himself into a series of animals so that he may check out cuties who are nudie. (He turns into a duck with Margo, an uncooperative critter forcing the actress to struggle while trying to pet the bird. You would think Mr. Peter would have welcomed being fondled by her.) Images of the lady from this film may be seen at post's end.


A reworking of one of Beautelwolf's
beautelful images

To give you a better idea of how I am inflicted by "sidetrack-itus," while watching Mr. Peters' Pets, I was taken by two of its other actresses, and I have already prepared posts for one (who led to yet another post for an actress I had first mistaken her for) and the other (a post that may be seen if you scroll four posts up). My whole incentive was to shed light on Margo, and I put her aside to examine ladies I learned about thanks to Margo. (Margo herself sidetracked me from other actresses I was supposed to tend to, and they have now similarly been put on the side. I am hopeless.)



The caption of the 1966-dated image seen above and that was found on EBay reads:

If you've not yet decided where to go for your holidays this year, you could do worse than take a tip or two from shapely 22-year-old Margo Mehling. Before American International Pictures discovered her in a Los Angeles travel bureau, Margo spent her time advising Californians about the attractions of Europe. But now, Vienna-born Margo is all set for a screen career and in her next picture, "Cruise Party," she'll be actually sampling her own recommendations.

We have learned of her birthplace of Vienna, so this post could have been placed in the "Lesser Known German & Austrian Actresses ~ Vintage" thread, but she became an American (in other words, we're gonna keep her here). We may also gather (since she was supposedly twenty-two in 1966) that Ms. Mehling was born in 1944, which may mean she is probably (and hopefully) still alive today.


Margo was one in a crowd of "Pajama Girls."

American International Pictures learned about Margo (when she used to work as a travel agent, a job now obsolete) some two years prior to the newspaper piece, when she was cast as one of the many "pajama girls" in Pajama Party (1964). (By the way, when I dug up the film in hopes of fleshing out this post for Margo, my eye was caught by Dorothy Lamour, which led to this detailed post — two weeks ago. Sidetracked again.)


At first I thought the brunette at left was Margo. That was a no go.

I tried to single her out from the scenes featuring pajama girls, two attempts that are shown above; you may see from the second image, with Annette Funicello at center, that picking out someone with little featured screen prominence ain't easy; sure wish I had succeeded. Nevertheless, A.I.P. produced seven official and five unofficial "beach party" films, and Cruise Party (as mentioned in the caption above) was intended to be one in the latter category, but the studio must have pulled the plug, sadly spelling the end for Margo's screen career.


MR. PETER'S PETS

There's hardly anything out there (that I could find) on Margo Mehling, but at least she allowed for eyes to feast on her glorious bare form back in 1962 (doubtless little realizing how her kindness would keep working with pleasing future generations; here we are, after all, over sixty years later). Views of her deliciously curvy self from Mr. Peters' Pets:




Cinematographers ought to be aware that especially when pretty girls are shot, and more especially when shot in the nude,
bright sunlight and the harsh shadows they cause need to be avoided.


After collecting these images, I later learned Member "Span4f" had covered this turf back in 2014, and quite wonderfully.
My post will mark Margo's third appearance on this thread, the only times she has shown up on VEF, except for a name-
drop and picture or two on the thread for MR. PETER'S PETS, shaped up by Moderator Bozoclown.














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[tsunamiSD]

Originally Posted by johnbear

Paramount Pictures Glamour Promo For Wharf Angel (1934).

There have only been two posts (with single images) done so far. Since johnbear already listed the IMDb entry, here is the Wiki entry. It's a shame she died so young, only appearing in 3 full-length films.

I had come across an image a couple of weeks ago, and started digging, did some more digging, and finally decided that I had found everything that I was probably going to find (that at least wasn't too small.) Whatever info I've found is embedded in file descriptions.

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Jackie De Witt
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0212440


Kiss Me Quick! (1964)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058264