Commedia Sexy all'Italiana

Almost every Italian genre starlet has at one point appeared in a commedia sexy all'italiana, a very popular film trend from the 1970s that managed to hold its own well into the 1980s. The undisputed queens of this subgenre, with such series as Poliziotta, Insegnante and Liceale, undoubtedly are the stunning Edwige Fenech, gorgeous Barbara Bouchet and pretty Gloria Guida. Here are two review articles from the French magazine Ciné-Girl, both concerning initial entries in their series, the first of Michèle Massimo Tarantini's La Liceale (1975), which has a nicely sounding German title, Flotte Teens und Heisse Jeans, the second Nando Cicero's L'Insegnante (1975), known in France as the promissing La Prof Donne des Leçons Particulières.

Continental Film Review

Some lovely eurostarlets on the cover of the vintage Continental Film Review, a movie magazine 'for the aware audience.' Continental Film Review was a UK based magazine, with its first issue published in 1952, that started out as a serious film journal devoted to foreign releases, but with the relaxation of censorship during the 1960s and 1970s, it gradually focused more on elements of nudity and eroticism, and on the various nubile starlets, in the films of those eras. They paid considerable attention to European horror, giallo and various other continental subgenres. Featured on the covers here are Edwige Fenech, Nieves Navarro (Susan Scott), Marina Malfatti, (in a scene from La Notte che Evelyn usci dalla Tomba - 1971) Jane Birkin, Marie Liljedahl, Fabienne Dali and the lovely Françoise Pascal, known to fans for her appearances in Pete Walker's School for Sex (1968), Burke and Hare (1972), Jean Rollin's La Rose de Fer (1973) and Les Raisins de la Mort (1978), and as one of the orgy girls (uncredited) in Incense for the Damned (1972).

Eurostarlets #010: Edwige Fenech

Gorgeous Edwige Fenech on the cover of the marvellous UK magazine Cinema X  - Volume 3 - Issue 3. This 1971 issue contains an interview with the lovely actress by Luigi Cozzi.