Cheri Caffaro

Slim, shapely and well-tanned blonde bombshell 'Cheri Caffaro' (qv) was born in 1945 in Miami, Florida. Caffaro won a "Lifetime" magazine 'Brigitte Bardot' (qv) lookalike contest when she was a teenager and worked as a model throughout the 60s. Cheri achieved a substantial amount of 70s exploitation cinema notoriety by portraying sexy, resourceful and formidable undercover government agent Ginger McAllister in a delightfully down'n'dirty trio of blithely seedy drive-in soft-core action romps: the supremely scuzzy _Ginger (1971)_ (qv), the splendidly sleazy _The Abductors (1972)_ (qv), and the pleasingly trashy _Girls Are for Loving (1973)_ (qv). The "Ginger" pictures were a series of gleefully low-rent affairs with a funky distaff James Bond-type anti-heroine using both her brains and her body to thwart assorted nasty criminals. Caffaro brought a hard, fierce, steely edge and raw, earthy, unbridled sex appeal to the part of Ginger that's alluring and unnerving in equal measure. Cheri was likewise solid and effective as a stuck-up spoiled rich woman in the tawdry _A Place Called Today (1972)_ (qv), a tough revolutionary in the fun _Kommando Höllenengel (1974)_ (qv), and a cunning, deadly, yet enticing international lady assassin in the entertainingly tacky _She's Too Hot to Handle (1977)_ (qv). Alas, Caffaro's moment in the acting spotlight proved to be fleeting. Cheri went on to co-write and co-produce the hilariously raunchy comedy hoot _H.O.T.S. (1979)_ (qv). She also served as an associate producer for the cruddy horror flick _The Demons of Ludlow (1983)_ (qv). Her last known credit is supplying a voice for the _Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)_ (qv) cartoon TV series. 'Cheri Caffaro' (qv) abruptly quit show business and now lives in Los Angeles, where she raises her own honey bees.::woodyanders