Jennifer Billingsley

Pretty, appealing and energetic blonde actress 'Jennifer Billingsley' (qv) was born in Honolulu in 1940. An army brat who grew up all over the world, she graduated with honors from Fort Smith (Arkansas) Senior High School in 1958. Her initial claim to fame was her striking resemblance to 'Brigitte Bardot' (qv). She garnered plenty of favorable critical notices for her lively performance in the hit Broadway musical, "Carnival". She made her film debut as 'James Caan' (qv)'s wild teenage moll girlfriend in the harrowing thriller, _Lady in a Cage (1964)_ (qv). Billingsley had a recurring part on the popular daytime soap opera, _General Hospital (1963)_ (qv).She then appeared in a handful of hugely entertaining low-budget drive-in features throughout the 1970s: a scruffy motorcycle mama in the biker romp, _C.C. & Company (1970)_ (qv); a sexy hippie hitchhiker in the sleazy _Brute Corps (1971)_ (qv); a brash young lass in the Vietnam vets exploitation flick, _Welcome Home Soldier Boys (1971)_ (qv); a sassy Southerner in the immensely enjoyable 'Burt Reynolds' (qv) vehicle, _White Lightning (1973)_ (qv); an American tourist who runs afoul of an evil cult in the Filipino horror dud, _The Thirsty Dead (1974)_ (qv); and another more bitter motorcycle mama in the fine _Hollywood Man (1976)_ (qv). On television, she had guest spots on are _Naked City (1958)_ (qv), _Gunsmoke (1955)_ (qv), _Route 66 (1960)_ (qv), _Dr. Kildare (1961)_ (qv), _Wagon Train (1957)_ (qv), _The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)_ (qv), _Mannix (1967)_ (qv), _Hawaii Five-O (1968)_ (qv), _Police Story (1973)_ (qv), _Alice (1976)_ (qv), _Baretta (1975)_ (qv) and _The Amazing Spider-Man (1977)_ (qv).::woodyanders