Mary Mendum

Also Known As: Rebecca Brooke, Misty Grey, Mary Mendham, Veronica Parrish

Biography: Mary Mendum was born on February 21, 1952. She grew up in a poor family outside of Chicago. She began her acting career in the early '70s in stage productions of her then boyfriend Michael Butler such as "Hair" and "Lenny". Mendum started appearing in movies with small parts in adult pictures for director Chuck Vincent and posed for nude layouts in a few prominent men's magazines. She achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with her outstanding portrayal of Anne in Radley Metzger's movie The Image (1975). Mary excelled in starring roles as often frustrated characters in several excellent Joseph W. Sarno softcore gems in the mid-1970s like Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974), Laura's Toys (1975) and Abigail Lesley Is Back in Town (1975). She further demonstrated her remarkable range and talent as an actress with her delightful comic turn as both meek and repressed chemist Dr. Shirley Jekyll and her more uninhibited and sexually aggressive alter ego Sherry Hyde in the amusing tongue-in-cheek romp The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego (1974). Outside of acting, Mary was a gifted cook and seamstress. Alas, Mary Mendum called it a day as an actress in 1977. On July 17, 2012, she died in Boca Raton, FL, of an accidental drowning due to a fall.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Birthday: February 21, 1952

Deathday: July 17, 2012

Adult: No

Gender: Female

Popularity:

2.99%

Known For:

Happily Ever After
Laura's Toys
Mrs. Barrington
Grace's Place
The Blazer Girls
Overdose
The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego
Confessions of a Young American Housewife
1001 Perversions of Felicia
Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town
The Image
Misty
The Groove Tube
Cherry Hill High
Bang Bang You Got It!
Little Girl, Big Tease