Rita Renoir

Rita Renoir.

Rita Renoir (19 January 1934 – 4 May 2016)[1] was a French strip-teaser and actress.

Biography

Vedette of the Crazy Horse Saloon, Renoir was, between 50's and 60's, one of the most famous European strip-teasers.[2][3] In 1964 Renoir was chosen by Michelangelo Antonioni to play the role of Emilia in The Red Desert,[2] and the following year she made her theatrical debut in René de Obaldia's Du vent dans les branches de sassafras, alongside Michel Simon.[4] In 1967 Renoir was the lead actress in Jean-Jacques Lebel's representation of the Pablo Picasso's drama Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue (Desire Caught by the Tail).[5][6]

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Mort de Rita Renoir, comédienne et célèbre strip-teaseuse". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2016-05-23.
  2. 1 2 Panorama, Edizioni 1938-1941. Mondadori, 2003.
  3. ↑ Antonella Giannone, Patrizia Calefato. Manuale di comunicazione, sociologia e cultura della moda: Performance. Meltemi Editore srl, 2007.
  4. ↑ Gershon Legman. Rationale of the dirty joke: an analysis of sexual humor, Volume 1. Simon and Schuster, 2006.
  5. ↑ Jean Jacques Lebel, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux. Poésie directe. Fall Edition, 1994.
  6. ↑ Laurel Jean Fredrickson. Kate Millett and Jean-Jacques Lebel: Sexual outlaws in the intermedia borderlands of art and politics. ProQuest, 2007.

Further reading

  • Frank Horvat, Patrick Lindermohr, J'aime le strip-tease, Éditions Rencontres, 1962
  • « Entretien avec Rita Renoir », in Plexus, la revue qui décomplexe, n° 3, Paris, août-septembre 1966
  • Julio Cortazar, Homenaje a una joven bruja, in Territorios, Mexico-Madrid-Buenos Aires, Siglo Veintiuno, 1978
  • Jean-Pierre Georges, Le Diable et la Licorne : métaphysique du strip-tease, Paris, La Table ronde, 2004
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