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Acquanetta

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Birth name Mildred Davenport
Nationality USA
Birth 17 july 1921 at Cheyenne (USA)
Death 16 august 2004 (at 83 years) at Ahwatukee, Phoenix (USA)

Acquanetta (July 17, 1921 – August 16, 2004), nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano," was a B-movie actress known for her exotic beauty.

Biography

In 1948, Acquanetta and “Mexican-Jewish millionaire” Luciano Bashuk had a son, Sergio, who died in 1952 at age 4, after the couple's bitter divorce in 1950, where she lost her suit for half his fortune when no record of their marriage could be produced.

In 1950, Acquanetta married painter and illustrator Henry Clive and returned to acting.

She retired from movies and became a disk jockey for radio station KPOL (AM) in Los Angeles, CA in 1953. After she married Jack Ross, a car dealer, the couple settled in Mesa, Arizona, and she returned to a degree of celebrity by appearing with Ross in his local television advertisements, and also by hosting a local television show called Acqua's Corner that accompanied the Friday late-night movies. The couple were prominent citizens, donating to the Phoenix Symphony and the construction of Mesa Lutheran Hospital and founding Stagebrush Theatre. She and Ross had four children, and divorced in the 1980s. In 1987, Acquanetta sold the Mesa Grande ruins to the city of Mesa.

Acquanetta also wrote a book of poetry, The Audible Silence, illustrated by Emilie Touraine (Flagstaff, Arizona): Northland Press, 1974. She did not smoke, and did not drink alcohol, tea, or coffee.

In 1987, the all-girl band The Aquanettas adopted (and adapted) their name from hers.

Acquanetta succumbed to complications of Alzheimer's disease on August 16, 2004, at Hawthorn Court in Ahwatukee, Arizona. She was 83.

An apocryphal Phoenix legend has Acquanetta, upon learning of her husband's infidelity, filling the interior of his Lincoln Continental convertible with concrete.

Usually with

Vera West
Vera West
(4 films)
Clyde Beatty
Clyde Beatty
(2 films)
Norman Panama
Norman Panama
(1 films)
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Filmography of Acquanetta (10 films)

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Take the High Ground!, 1h41
Directed by Richard Brooks, Jerry Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart, Russ Tamblyn, Carleton Carpenter, Steve Forrest
Roles Bar Girl (uncredited)
Rating59% 2.9997552.9997552.9997552.9997552.999755
In May 1953, a new group of Army recruits at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas encounter their drill sergeants, Sgt. Laverne Holt (Karl Malden) and the tough-as-nails Sgt. Thorne Ryan (Richard Widmark). After Ryan's caustic appraisal of the recruits, Holt vows to make soldiers out of them during their sixteen weeks of basic training. Ryan, a combat veteran who resents his stateside duty, repeatedly applies for a transfer back to the Korean front.
Callaway Went Thataway, 1h21
Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Jesse White, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel, Fay Roope, Natalie Schafer
Roles Native Girl with Smoky (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.289183.289183.289183.289183.28918
Mike Frye (MacMurray) and Deborah Patterson (McGuire), co-owners of an advertising firm, have a big hit when they recycle some old Western films starring "Smoky" Callaway (Keel) for a new television audience. Tom Lorrison (Fay Roope), the show's sponsor, is eager to make more films, but nobody has seen Smoky in ten years. Under intense pressure to produce the star, Frye hires Smoky's agent, Georgie Markham (Jesse White), to go look for him.
Lost Continent, 1h23
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, La préhistoire, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Whit Bissell, Chick Chandler, Sid Melton, Hugh Beaumont
Roles Native Girl
Rating33% 1.664541.664541.664541.664541.66454
Maj. Joe Nolan (Cesar Romero) is the head of an expedition to the South Pacific to retrieve an atomic-powered rocket that vanished without a trace. He had previously lived in a South American jungle, as has fellow serviceman and pilot Lt. Danny Wilson (Chick Chandler), who is also on the expedition. Aircraft mechanic Sgt. William Tatlow (Sid Melton) is also recruited for the expedition, which includes the three scientists who helped build the rocket.
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, 1h12
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Acquanetta, Edgar Barrier, Dennis Hoey
Roles Lea, the High Priestess
Rating60% 3.0474953.0474953.0474953.0474953.047495
Travelers near Zambezi are being killed, apparently by leopards. The commissioner (Dennis Hoey) asks Tarzan to look into the matter. Tarzan immediately doubts that leopards are the problem. At the same time, Tarzan, Jane, and Boy take in Kimba, a boy who claims to have become lost in the jungle. Kimba (Tommy Cook) is the brother of Queen Lea, leader of a leopard cult. She has dispatched him to spy on Tarzan. Queen Lea also conspires with Ameer Lazar (Edgar Barrier), a Western-educated doctor who resents the West's domination of the area.
Dead Man's Eyes, 1h4
Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Lon Chaney, Jr., Jean Parker, Paul Kelly, Thomas Gomez, Jonathan Hale, Acquanetta
Roles Tanya Czoraki
Rating60% 3.004563.004563.004563.004563.00456
Artist Dave Stuart is blinded by a jealous assistant. The father of his fiance offers an operation to restore his sight, but Stuart will have to wait until the man dies. The benefactor dies a premature death and Stuart becomes a suspect.
Jungle Woman, 1h1
Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about apes
Actors Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, Samuel S. Hinds, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille
Roles Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman
Rating47% 2.371062.371062.371062.371062.37106
The film begins with shadowy images on a wall showing a man being attacked by what appears to be a woman. He produces a needle from his pocket and administers its contents to his assailant. She falls to the ground, apparently dead.
Captive Wild Woman, 1h1
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about apes
Actors John Carradine, Milburn Stone, Evelyn Ankers, Acquanetta, Lloyd Corrigan, Martha Vickers
Roles Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman
Rating54% 2.703382.703382.703382.703382.70338
The film begins with animal trainer Fred Mason (Milburn Stone) returning from his latest safari with a horde of animals for his employer John Whipple (Lloyd Corrigan), owner of the Whipple Circus. Among them is Cheela (Ray Corrigan), a gorilla with remarkably human characteristics. Mason relates that she is the most affectionate jungle animal he has ever encountered.
Rhythm of the Islands
Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jane Frazee, Allan Jones, Andy Devine, Ernest Truex, Marjorie Gateson, Mary Wickes
Roles Luani
Rating51% 2.578692.578692.578692.578692.57869
Two ambitious guys from Brooklyn, Tommy Jones and Eddie Dolan, get the idea of buying a tropical island in the South Pacific to exploit as a tourist paradise. They go there and start rounding up customers on the beach, to bring to native shows they set up with the help of the locals.
Arabian Nights, 1h26
Directed by John Rawlins, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Circus films, Children's films
Actors Sabu, Jon Hall, María Montez, Leif Erickson, Billy Gilbert, Turhan Bey
Roles Ishya (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0478353.0478353.0478353.0478353.047835
The story starts at a harem (which strangely has the Taj Mahal in sight, even though it is supposed to be located in Persia), where the elderly overseer bids his young charges to read the story of Haroun al-Rashid (Hall) and his wife Scheherazade (Montez), unfolding the film's plot in the process.