“Most of society didn’t see girls with a guitar between their legs,” said Patti Quatro, 74, who replaced Millington as lead guitarist in 1974. Predictably, Fanny was subjected to a great deal of sexism, often being treated as a novelty act. “And I’d say, ‘I’m taken.’ I hated not being able to say, ‘Well, I’m in love with a woman.’” “People would ask us, ‘Do you have a boyfriend?’” recalled de Buhr, now 72 and residing in Tucson, Ariz. The film highlights the fact that two of Fanny’s members - June Millington and the drummer Alice de Buhr - are lesbians, something that the band never dared speak about publicly in those days. Not long after, the band, looking for a new name with a female identity, chose Fanny, which in the United States is slang for bottom. The Svelts morphed into Wild Honey, a Motown cover group that decamped to Los Angeles in 1969 to make it big. The sisters found solace in music, forming an all-girl band in high school called the Svelts, which played the radio hits of the day. (In the film, Jean recalls the father of a boyfriend of hers telling his son, “I’ll buy you a Mustang if you stop seeing that half-breed girl.” The boyfriend opted for the car.) In 1961, the Millington family moved overseas to Sacramento, Calif., where the sisters, as early adolescents, had a difficult time fitting in.
Humanoids from the Deep (1980) Released in the UK as plain old Monster, this is a surprisingly gruelling affair in which monsters from the ocean….Released in some markets as Sex, Lies and Renaissance. Raines tries hard to conjure up a performance to match her physique, but her shortcomings are as apparent as her charms. The admirably willing Oliver Reed plays the foppish attorney whose oily manner lubricates the wheels of justice.
FANNY HILL HOW TO
In the expert hands of Mrs Cole’s girls Fanny learns how to sow her very wild oats and is initiated into the earthly pleasures of sex.
Upon arriving she encounters Mrs Cole (a pantomime performance from Shelley Winters), owner of a house of pleasure, who sees in Fanny’s blushing beauty a very pretty penny to be made. Orphaned in the ripeness of her adolescence, Fanny travels to London in search of work and happiness. Although considerably classier than Russ Meyer’s 1964 version, this is still a disappointingly bawdy dramatisation of John Cleland’s 1749 erotic classic.ĭirector Gerry O’Hara sets out to titillate rather than explore the sordid events behind the transformation of Fanny Hill (Lisa Raines) from a comely country girl into a practised woman of pleasure.
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