Russ Meyer versus Eric Stanton! + a question I once asked Tura Satana…. You be the Judge!
Smackdown!
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Russ Meyer
1. Both emerged from Burlesque culture
2. Both were veterans of World War II
3. Both were abandoned by their biologically fathers earlier in life
4. Both had willful mothers that they admired
5. Both idolized strong, powerfully-built, imposing women
Eric Stanton
6. Both chose sexploitation early on as their medium of expression
7. Both can be regarded as fetish artists!
8. Both were essentially self-employed, self-reliant, self-distributing artists
9. Both created their own unique, eccentric, private worlds
10. Both were outsiders, never renouncing their life-choice as artists
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Eric Stanton: freelance artist
"Striparama," above (early 1960s)
Russ Meyer: freelance photographer, 1959
(model: Virginia Bell)
"According to frequent collaborator and longtime lover Kitten Natividad,
Meyer's love of dominant women extended to his personal life,
and he was almost always in a tumultuous relationship."
—McDonough, Jimmy, Big Bosoms and Square Jaws 2004.chap14-16
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Feeling No Pain, Eric Stanton, 1967
First Niter Book, FN 245
From Russ Meyer's
Common Law Cabin (1967)
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Eric Stanton, Exotique #17, 1957
Russ Meyer, Black Snake, 1973
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"Keeping Down The Jones" Eric Stanton, early '60s
Varla (Tura Santana) in Faster Pussycat! Kill!… Kill! (1965)
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Wicked & Depraved, Eric Stanton, 1965
First Niter Book, FN 110A
Faster Pussycat! Kill!… Kill! (1965), Russ Meyer
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Stantoons, Eric Stanton + Steve Ditko,
Originally published early 1960s
Tura Santana again, in Faster Pussycat! Kill!… Kill! (1965)
A Question I once asked Tura Satana:
RICHARD: Y'know, Eric Stanton was collected by Howard Hughes, Frank Sinatra, Elvis. Were you or Russ Meyer ever influenced by fetish artist Eric Stanton? The character of Varla from Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! seems incredibly close to his ideal. TURA: Since Russ is deceased, I can't ask him but to answer—I can't say whether Russ knew of him, but I had never heard of Mr. Stanton. I had a habit of always wearing black because it is one color that has always been favorable to me. As for the leather gloves, I started wearing those when I was around 12 yrs, old when I was the leader of an all girl vigilante gang. It kept me from messing up my hands when we would break up fights and stop guys from attacking other girls in the neighborhood like I had been. This way, I didn't scrape my knuckles or break of nails.
RICHARD: Eric Stanton passed away in 1999, but did you ever meet him while he was alive? Any connection to him at all?
TURA: No, I have never met Mr. Eric Stanton, that I know of. The clothes that I wore in FPKK were mine, the only thing that Russ bought was another pair of black jeans so that I would have a change of clothes after the fight scenes. I could have met Mr. Stanton when I was a dancer, but I could not swear to it. It is possible that he created his female character after seeing me somewhere?
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Visit Russ Meyer
Visit Eric Stanton
This was Tura Satana as a dancer.
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With Drugs, Pornography
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