Marilyn Joi

Sweet, sexy and shapely black actress 'Marilyn Joi' (qv) greatly enlivened a bunch of enjoyably trashy 1970s drive-in exploitation pictures with her boundless vitality, bubbly, upbeat personality, stunningly gorgeous looks and considerable sex appeal.Joi began her performing career as a popular nightclub dancer, and in fact made her film debut as a nightclub dancer in the solid 'Fred Williamson' (qv) blaxploitation vehicle _Hammer (1972)_ (qv). She appeared in a handful of features for legendary schlock director 'Al Adamson' (qv): _Mean Mother (1973)_ (qv), _The Naughty Stewardesses (1973)_ (qv), _Blazing Stewardesses (1975)_ (qv), _Black Samurai (1976)_ (qv) and _Nurse Sherri (1978)_ (qv). Joi's most memorable roles include one of obsessive doctor 'Richard Basehart' (qv)'s hapless victims in the creepy horror item _Mansion of the Doomed (1976)_ (qv); Velvet, a vicious henchwoman of 'Dyanne Thorne' (qv) in the splendidly sleazy _Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)_ (qv), Cleopatra Schwartz in the uproarious sketch comedy hoot _The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)_ (qv), a high school cheerleader who gets abducted by brutish football players in _The Great American Girl Robbery (1979)_ (qv) and a winged bat girl alien in the amusingly goofy sci-fi spoof _Galaxina (1980)_ (qv). Moreover, Marilyn did guest spots on such TV series as _Hill Street Blues (1981)_ (qv), _Hunter (1984)_ (qv), _Good Times (1974)_ (qv), _Starsky and Hutch (1975)_ (qv) and _Charlie's Angels (1976)_ (qv). She also acted under the pseudonyms Ineda King, T.A. King, Tracy Ann King, Tracy-Ann King and Tracy King. "Players" magazine cited Marilyn as "America's Favorite Black Poster Girl" in 1980 and deemed her one of "America's Ten Sexiest Black Women" two years later.::woodyanders (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)