Constance Money

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Constance Money
Born
Susan Jensen [1]

1956 (age 66–67)
Kenmore, Washington, U.S.
Other namesJennifer Baker, [2] Christina Hoover [3]

Constance Money (born 1956) [3] is an American former adult film actress. She played the lead role of Misty Beethoven in the 1976 adult classic The Opening of Misty Beethoven .

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Early life and education

Susan Jensen [1] [4] [5] was born in Kenmore, Washington, where she was a cheerleader and acted at Inglemoor High School; she studied psychology and sociology at Mills College in Oakland, California. [1]

Adult film career

After first appearing in pornographic films while in college, under the name Jennifer Baker, [1] [2] as Constance Money she played the lead role of the lowly Parisian prostitute reshaped by a sexologist to reach the top tier of her profession in Henry Paris (Radley Metzger)'s 1976 pornographic parody of Shaw's Pygmalion , The Opening of Misty Beethoven. [5] [6] She later said in an interview that she had expected it to be an R-rated movie and that the film reflected her actual sexual education during production: "Misty is a good movie because it is real." [7]

Following the film's success, she made several appearances as a porn star, including stays at the Playboy Mansion, and appeared in Playboy magazine in July 1977 in a photo feature on "The New Girls of Porn" [2] and a 1978 personal photo spread, titled "Call of the Wild", which portrayed her as leading a double life starring in adult films and running a hostelry in a remote part of Alaska. [1] Her subsequent appearances include Mary! Mary! and Obsessed (both 1977), and Taste of Money (1983), [1] [3] her last pornographic film, which is about her return to porn after a hiatus. [7] Her co-star was frequently John Leslie, a friend with whom she lived for a while. [1]

During shooting of Misty Beethoven, Jensen had objected to work she considered in excess of her contract and claimed damages for stolen possessions; she subsequently sued Metzger over his reuse of material shot for that film, particularly in Barbara Broadcast and Maraschino Cherry . The parties settled out of court in 1979. [1] [2] [8] It has been reported that Metzger gave her the alias Constance Money because of her demands for money, [7] but Metzger denied it. [2]

She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 1998 [9] and into the XRCO Hall of Fame as a film pioneer in 2016. [10]

Subsequent career

Encouraged by Hugh Hefner to try to cross over into mainstream film, she had a small part in Blake Edwards' 1979 film 10 and unsuccessfully sought the lead role in Frances (1982); the producers were unwilling to consider a star with a background in pornography. [1] She retired from acting to the Pacific Northwest. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Ashley West (April 7, 2017). "'The Opening of Misty Beethoven' (1976): Jamie Gillis and Constance Money". The Rialto Report . Retrieved December 6, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Henry Paris vs. Constance Money: Chronology and Correspondence of a Conflict". The Rialto Report. July 30, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "Personal Biography – Constance Money". Internet Adult Film Database . Retrieved December 6, 2021.
  4. ↑ Toni Bentley (June 2013). "The Legend of Henry Paris" (PDF). Playboy . pp. 110, 142.
  5. 1 2 Barry Forshaw (2018). Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   9781137390066.
  6. ↑ Linda Williams (1999). Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible". University of California Press. p. 136. ISBN   0-520-21943-0.
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