Trivia / Russ Meyer

• He Also Did: He worked as a photographer before getting into movies, including photographing some of the earliest Playboy centerfolds.
• Referenced by...:
  • The bands Faster Pussycat and Mudhoney named themselves after his films.
  • Garbage's "Supervixens" was titled after one of his films.
  • The Murderdolls titled one of their albums Beyond The Valley of the Murderdolls.
  • The Pipettes' music video for "Pull Shapes" is an homage to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
• Romance on the Set: With Eve Meyer (to whom he was married from 1952 to 1969; she died in 1977 in the Tenerife airliner-collision disaster), then with Edy Williams (married 1970-1975), then with Francesca "Kitten" Natividad (partners circa 1975-1990).
• What Could Have Been:
  • Who Killed Bambi?, which would have been a film about the Sex Pistols, and would have reunited him with Roger Ebert, his co-writer on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
  • Foxy or Viva Foxy! would have been a vehicle for Meyer's then-wife Edy Williams and also written by Roger Ebert. The plot was either about the misadventures of a hypersexual record company executive or a woman who became the mistress to the dictators of two warring Banana Republics.

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