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All the stuff you’ve
possibly seen on Wikipedia etc. is full of inaccuracies.
Here’s
the real skinny.
Georgina
Spelvin was born in the bowels of Lower Manhattan in 1972. She
was 36 years old at the time – rather long in the tooth for a
porn actress. The daughter of George Adversity Spelvin, the
noted Shakespearean actor, and Stark Necessity, an inventive
mother, she became the darling of Porn Chic with the release of
Gerard Damiano’s epochal film, The Devil In Miss Jones.
Her portrayal of the virginal Miss Jones earned a very
complimentary review from the leading film critic of the day,
Judith Crist.
This
unprecedented acceptance of a sex actress by the mainstream
media led to numerous film assignments for her over the next ten
years. There were even two films, Police Academy I and
Police Academy III, which had no explicit sex scenes
in them at all.
In a former
life, Ms Spelvin danced on Broadway and in many, many, many
summer stock and industrial productions. Just prior to her New
York debut at Lou Walters’ famous bistro, The Latin Quarter, she
danced in the chorus of the State Fair Summer Musicals in
Dallas, Texas in 1954 – her first professional gig.
Between the
time of Devil’s filming and release, she participated in
an average of two hard-core films a month. Footage from these
endeavors have been cut and re-cut into so many various and
sundry films, that it is impossible to catalogue them
accurately, but most of her more structured efforts are listed
on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com).
Retired
from films since 1979, Ms Spelvin agreed to do the non-sex cameo
role in the remake of The Devil in Miss Jones because the
director, her good friend Paul Thomas, asked her to. Aside from
that brief foray back into the porn world, she has devoted her
time and efforts to writing – a secret passion from her earliest
memory. Her “creative memoir” is set for a spring 2008 debut.
Ms Spelvin
and her husband are living happily ever after in a small
bungalow in Hollywood. They have a cat and several tropical
fish.
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