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VALERIE PERRINE

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Perrine was born in Galveston, Texas, the daughter of Winifred (née McGinley), a dancer who appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities, and Kenneth Perrine, a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army.^[1] Owing to her father's career, Perrine lived in many locations as the family moved to different posts.

Perrine began her career as a Las Vegas showgirl. Some believe she made her motion picture debut with an uncredited part in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) but this is not true. She played soft-core porn actress Montana Wildhack in the film of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (1972).

Perrine was photographed as a model for a pictorial layout in the May 1972 issue of Playboy magazine, later appearing on the cover in August 1981. She then became the first actress to purposely display herself nude on American television by completely baring her breasts during the May 4, 1973, Public Broadcasting Service broadcast of Bruce Jay Friedman's Steambath on Hollywood Television Theater. (She was seen taking a shower from the side totally undressed.) Only a few PBS stations nationwide were adventurous enough to carry the program.

In 1975, Perrine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress (Drama) and won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as comedian Lenny Bruce's wife, stripper Honey Bruce, in Bob Fosse's Lenny (1974).

She was Carlotta Monti in the biopic W.C. Fields and Me (1976) and one of her best remembered movie roles came as Miss Eve Teschmacher, moll of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor, in Superman (1978). For this role she was nominated for the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised her role as Miss Teschmacher in Superman II (1980).

Perrine played Charlotta Steele, ex-wife of a rodeo champion played by Robert Redford, in The Electric Horseman (1979). Her career grew uneven after an appearance in Can't Stop the Music (1980), for which she was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actress. This film has since become a cult classic. In 1982, she played the role of Marcy, the wife of a corrupt police officer, in The Border with Jack Nicholson. In the years since then, Perrine has worked in lower-profile projects, although she did have a small supporting role in the 2000 Mel Gibson film What Women Want. In 1995, Perrine made a guest appearance on the series Homicide: Life on the Street, playing an ex-wife of Richard Belzer's Detective John Munch.

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1968-1969: “Lido de Paris,” Stardust

As a showgirl, she didn’t leave much of a mark. After she left the Stardust, however, Perrine became the Megan Fox of her day, starring in a chorus line of Hollywood films as the sizzling romantic interest. In 1975, Perrine single-handedly legitimized having a topless showgirl past when she received an Oscar nomination for starring opposite Dustin Hoffman in “Lenny.”

“I was just incredibly lucky,” Perrine, 67, told the R-J last year.

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Valerie as Lenny Bruce's wife

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Directed by Bob Fosse and starring Dustin Hoffman, Lenny isn’t your straight forward biopic. There are three different time-frames intertwined throughout the film. First, there’s the point A to point B narrative look at Lenny’s life, starting from his early stand up days when he just met Honey (Valerie Perrine) , a stripper he later marries, has a child with and divorces. Then there are cuts from Lenny’s stand up act that help shine more light on situations within the narrative. For example, Lenny’s bit about why men cheat goes on while we see his own infidelities. Finally, there are interviews of Honey, his mother and his agent, weighing in on narrative moments, often with the historical and biographical aspect. Feels like an odd Citizen Kane tribute. Plus, the film is all in black and white, feeling like a gritty sort of German Expressionism, which I found very beautiful.

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Valerie is a memorable actress of the last four decades who started out as a Las Vegas showgirl. Her career is highlighted by her portrayal of Lenny Bruce’s stripper wife in the 1974 film Lenny. Valerie starred opposite Dustin Hoffman and was nominated for Best Actress by the Academy.

Sexy came easy for Valerie. One of her earliest roles was as soft-core porn actress Montana Wildhack in 1972’s Slaughterhouse-Five and she was the first actress to purposely display herself nude on American television during a 1973 PBS broadcast. Valerie also made the cover of Playboy in 1981.

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