Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA
Lovely, shapely, and captivating brunette Rita Bennett was born on January 26, 1941 in Glen Cove, New York. An only child, Rita grew up in a dysfunctional household in Long Island. Unhappy with her turbulent home life, Bennett focused primarily on her burgeoning comely looks as a teenager. Rita left home at age sixteen and moved into a room in a Manhattan apartment with five girls who she barely knew. Bennett soon started modeling and was featured in ads in both newspapers and magazines as well as on billboards (she even was the face of an ad campaign for a Manhattan department store). Rita appeared in her first soft-core film in 1961. Among the notable East Coast soft-core cinema directors that Bennett appeared in films for are Joseph W. Sarno, Barry Mahon, William Rose, and John Amero and Lem Amero. Outside of acting, Rita also worked as a stripper in the tri-state area on the East Coast and managed to land the occasional small role in a major mainstream movie in which she was cast to type as a stripper. Bennett quit acting and stripping in the mid-1980's and went on to focus on fashion and animal welfare instead. Alas, Rita had serious problems with alcoholism throughout her life. Bennett died in 2017. Her body was unclaimed and ultimately wound up buried in a potter's field.


as Emma - Miss 48's
1980

as Stripper
1979

1969

as Harem Girl (uncredited)
1970

as Betty
1973

as Sex Inserts
1968

1969

1971

as Georgia (uncredited)
1968

as Girl Running in Slow Motion (uncredited)
1964

as Clarice
1968

as Rita
1968
as Stripper
1973

as Emma - Miss 48's
1980

as Stripper
1979

as Stripper
1973

as Betty
1973

1971
as Bambi Ferguson (uncredited)
1971

as Harem Girl (uncredited)
1970

1969

as Go-Go Dancer
1969

1969

1969

as Rita
1968
1968

as Sex Inserts
1968

as Clarice
1968

as Georgia (uncredited)
1968

1967

as Jeannie (as Joanna Cunningham)
1967

as Sunbather
1967

1967

as Call Girl (uncredited)
1967

as Corpse
1967

as Karen
1966

1966