By Dan Scapperotti

There is more to this Florida beauty than meets the eye. As if any more is needed. Since abandoning her native Minnesota at the tender age of sixteen, Krista Grotte has been involved in the mental health field. She majored in abnormal psychology and social work in college. An adventurous spirit led her to avoid the safe havens of the profession for the sometimes dangerous venues that deal with individuals with violent proclivities. But her real ambition was to become an actress.

“I’m a universal person,” Grotte says. “I have a lot of crazy life experience and that brings a lot to the table. I’m myself all the time. I develop a relationship with everyone I work with and I think it’s because I love it so much. The wildest thing I’ve done in my life happened when I was a teenager. I was pretty rebellious and we went to Wisconsin and had sex in a church.”

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By Dan Scapperotti

Can you imagine a trio of nerds creating phony casting sessions just to meet hot girls? That’s either terrible, dishonest and reprehensible, or a very clever idea. That’s just what happens in Cattle Call. Caught up in this scheme is pretty Marina Del all set to make it big in Hollywood. Playing the intrepid would be actress is Jenny Mollen who has appeared in The Raven, Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave and played Nina Ash, a werewolf, on a season of Angel. She almost got her big break featured on a primetime network series. Unfortunately, that series was the ill fated Viva Laughlin.
Just before auditioning for Cattle Call, Mollen decided to change her image and maybe get more serious roles. “I’m naturally blonde and I dyed my hair like two days before that audition because I was getting type cast and I didn’t want to play anymore wide eyed I-just-came-to-Hollywood type of girl fresh off the bus from Nebraska,” she says. “Wouldn’t you know it? The first audition I got as a brunette was Marina Del this girl who just got off the bus. She’s coming here to be an actress all bright eyed and bushy tailed ready to take on the world. I’m going to be serious, I’m going to dye my hair dark and I got the exact role I was trying to avoid.” [Read more…]

On the April/May cover of Femme Fatales is India de Beaufort, the incredibly talented and beautiful model, actress, singer and songwriter. She appeared in Run, Fatboy, Run! directed by David Schwimmer. She is also the face of for the makeup company “Me by Mezhgan.” For her Femme Fatales photo shoot, de Beaufort suggested the pinup girl motiff from the Forties.
“I love the whole style” says the actress “ For a long time there were pinup girl pictures popping all over the place in my bedroom”. But de Beaufort didn’t only show us her pinup girl side; she also did a photo shoot in a simple modern style, showing her sexy and beautiful look. Mezhgan herself did de Beaufort’s makeup for the session.
“It was a so much fun to get my hair done in the Forties style and makeup and the stockings on and the garters” says de Beaufort. This is one issue you aren’t going to want to miss!

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By Steve Biodrowski

Posted from www.cinefantastique.com

Another Queen has screamed her final scream. Hazel Court, who starred in two of the greatest horror films ever made, died yesterday at the age of 82. The cause of death was not mentioned in the initial announcement, which was made here on the Classic Horror Film Board. Court’s contribution to the horror genre was small but significant. Although most of her credits were in episodic television (including a TWILIGHT ZONE episode titled “The Fear”), she also appeared in over half a dozen horror films, including GHOST SHIP (1952), DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS (1954), and DR. BLOOD’S COFFIN (1961). Moving back and forth across the Atlantic, she appeared in two productions for England’s Hammer Films, CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) and THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH (1959), and in three for American International Pictures, THE PREMATURE BURIAL (1962), THE RAVEN (1963), and MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964).

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By Dan Scapperotti
When director James Ryan was casting Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation for Fox Home Entertainment he knew he would need beautiful women. Lots of beautiful women. One set piece called for a group of strippers to get into a brawl over the central character who is being set up by his scheming would be brother-in-law. Enter Arianna Coltellacci.
Born in Italy, the actress moved with her family to her mother’s native Venezuela when she was eight years old. After studying journalism and geography in school, Coltellacci got a job as a creator-writer with a marketing firm doing commercials and publicity. On one shoot, [Read more…]

By Dan Scapperotti

Well it wasn’t the face that launched a thousand ships exactly, but the face and body of this gorgeous blonde certainly had their effect on young males during the Fifties. In her short career, Mamie Van Doren left her mark on sex and rock and roll in such films as Untamed Youth, High School Confidential and Running Wild. She and fellow blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield were the first American mainstream actresses to appear nude on screen. Australian author Barry Lowe recounts Van Doren’s cinematic adventures in Atomic Blonde: The Films of Mamie Van Doren (McFarland & Company).
“A friend introduced me to Mamie’s movies in the early ’70s when [Read more…]

By Dan Scapperotti

After winning the Miss Germany International title in 2002, Eva Derrek picked up stakes and moved to Los Angeles where she easily found swimwear and lingerie modeling assignments for such firms as Wicked Weasel Bikinis. She can be found on websites like surfillustrated.com and in the pages of such magazines as FHM and Krown. Although she had taken acting classes in Germany as a teenager, Derrek wasn’t focused on a movie career, especially one where she would face off against wicked wizards, werewolves and vampires. But when she arrived in the City of the Angels she decided to continue her acting classes. With an aptitude for languages–she speaks several–Derrek was able to mask her Teutonic origins. [Read more…]

Here at Femme Fatales, we love all the exposure we can get. That’s why we want to thank Vanity Fair for continuing the “Fresh Faces” tradition we started, oh, four years ago. As dedicated Femme readers will remember, our latest winner was Russian import turned Deal or No Deal box gal Miss Anya Monzikova.

Heck, they even included Jessica Biel, our cover from December 03! At Femme, we’ve always prided ourselves in finding and exposing new faces that we feel the world should get to know, and it’s always nice to see that other magazines feel the smae way. So to Vanity Fair, we just wanted to say, “thanks for joining the freshest club in town!”

By Dan Scapperotti

Strippers, you gotta love ‘em. Ever since Salome did that little shimmy for the head of John the Baptist, women have learned that doing a little peeling can harvest some nice rewards. Bunny Yeager, glamour photographer extraordinaire, who introduced the luscious Betty Page to Playboy, has compiled a treasure trove of her photos of exotic dancers who tread the stages of nightclubs and burlesque houses in the Fifties in her 160 page book, Striptease Artists of the 1950s (Shiffer Books).
A gorgeous woman who could rival any of her subjects, Yeager freely admits that pictures of strippers didn’t sell well to the men’s magazines of the time. They were more interested in the girl next door type. Since this volume features only women she [Read more…]

Cassandra Hepburn may be on our cover, but if you take a look inside, you’ll find Femme favorite Shannyn Sossamon taking a moment from her busy schedule to chat with us. Why do we like her so much? Maybe it’s her dark side that she so embraces.

“Why do I go for dark material,” she wonders. “Is it because I have dark eyes and dark hair? I never really analyzed it, but I definitely like dark material. I would love to do everything, but I do seem to have a goth sensibility. I never called myself a goth girl, but I do seem to have an affinity for that.”

What’s next for our dark beauty? She is currently working on two movies, The Heavy and Life is Hot in Cracktown, as well as starring as the vampire “Coraline” in Moonlight.