She was a child star. She disappeared for five years, then re-emerged as a softcore star – for about a minute. Then she disappeared for good.
All comments and collages by Brainscan
Jennie Lynn appeared in two movies in 1970, when she was 18 years old. She disappeared after them, but had an impressive history as a child actress before them. Among her many credits on several tv shows were guest appearances in Leave it to Beaver
and My Three Sons.
From 1965 to 1970 Jennie made no movies or television shows but my oh my, did she ever grow up. Yessiree, grow she did in ways that are sure to impress any reader of the Funhouse.
Matinee Wives (1970) is a California grindhouse movie, packed with unclothed women, but I want to focus for now on Jennie. Her role was as a topless cocktail waitress.
‘Tis a brief scene but in the end credits she reappears as a topless and bottomless dancer.
The movie is available only in DVD from a very poor source (obviously a theater copy rather than the original print), so the clips and the screen grabs are pretty damn short of our modern, high-def expectations.
More impressive were Jennie’s many nude scenes in Getting Into Heaven (1970).
This, too, is available only in DVD, but the source material is much cleaner and brighter and better. I grabbed a clip and did a few collages of one scene (you can find caps and clips of other scenes – including a girl-girl encounter with Uschi Digard – in the back issues of the Funhouse), and you can bet the moment this movie shows up on Bluray, you will be hearing from me again.
That’s interesting. Reminds me of another obscure child star who ended up doing more adult fare as an adult, Shirley Jean Rickert who was part of the original Our Gang/Little Rascals. She later reemerged as a burlesque star named Gilda and Her Crowning Glory. She starred in the burlesque film The ABCs of Love where she went topless but with pasties as legally required at the time.
The more you know – must have been whiplash for an actress to start out on whitebread sitcoms, hit the exploitation era, & wind up baring your ass & hooters in super bright 70’s lighting
Thanks Uncle – she’s a doll
Damn she really did Grow Up. Very impressive.