Rosanne Katon
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Biography: Rosanne Katon is an American model, actress, comedian and activist. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1978 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. Katon was born in New York City to a Jamaican-born father and an African-American mother. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Katon worked steadily in Hollywood, including a stint on Grady, the short-lived spin-off of the hit situation comedy Sanford and Son that starred Whitman Mayo in the title role, and guest appearances on Jason of Star Command, What's Happening!!, Good Times and That's My Mama, which starred Clifton Davis. She then had leading roles in two Cirio Santiago action films, both released in 1976, Ebony, Ivory & Jade, in which she received top billing, and The Muthers, in which she acted alongside former Playboy centerfold Jean Bell. However, the shapely actress was often typecast in sex kitten roles in R-Rated comedies such as The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974), Chesty Anderson, U.S. Navy (1976), American Raspberry (1976), Lunch Wagon (1981), Zapped! (1982) and Bachelor Party (1984). This was solidified by her appearance as the September 1978 Playboy centerfold. She had a recurring role opposite Denzel Washington on the medical drama St. Elsewhere and her appearance in two award-winning UCLA student films, Julie Dash's "Illusions," released in 1982, in which she portrayed a singer doubling for a white actress in 1940s Hollywood (whether she did her own singing in the role was not known as of mid December 2012), and S. Torriano Berry's "Rich," in which she portrays the title character's supportive girlfriend. Her other film credits included the TV movie The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977), the cult horror film Motel Hell (1980), Body and Soul (1981), City Girl (1984) and Harem (1985), opposite Nastassja Kinski and Ben Kingsley. Katon was selected as Miss Golden Globes for the 1981 awards show. The honor and the task of presenting the statuettes during the ceremony goes to an up-and-coming actress. Katon was the first African American to be selected, since the custom started in 1962. Additionally, Katon has had several stage credits, including a Broadway lead role in Godspell and a featured role in the parody of women in prison movies, Women Behind Bars. At one point, Katon segued into the world of stand-up comedy, and during that period in her career, she appeared in the June 1991 Playboy pictorial "Funny Girls," which covered female comedians.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Birthday: February 05, 1954
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Female
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The Swinging Cheerleaders
Overview: In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-25
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Motel Hell
Overview: Farmer Vincent Smith and his sister Ida run a motel attached to a farm where they capture unsuspecting travelers, bury them alive, fatten them up and then harvest their bodies as ingredients for his famous brand of "smoked meats."
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-14
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Autism: The Musical
Overview: Follows five autistic children as they work together to create and perform a live musical production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-18
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Ebony, Ivory & Jade
Overview: An American track team has just arrived in The Philippines for an international competition. Among the competitors are Ginger and Pam, nicknamed "Ivory" and "Ebony", who meet up with another friend, Jackie, nicknamed "Jade". After they arrive at their hotel, a gang of thugs kidnaps them, along with some other girls from the team. To get away, the trio are going to have to use all their fighting skills.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-24
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Lunch Wagon
Overview: Three women start a lunch wagon business but run into stiff resistance from a competitor.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-01
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The Muthers
Overview: A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy
Overview: When one of her friends goes missing, Chesty and several fellow WAVEs go looking for her and end up in a world of senatorial corruption and Mafia intimidation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-01
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Police Story: The Watch Commander
Overview: This is the story of policeman who has been on the job for over forty years. And one of his duties is to look out for all of the officers under him cause he is the watch commander. And it seems that a lot of them have a lot of problems including the new lieutenant. And a 15 year veteran who's feeling the stress of the job. And at the same time he is being egged by the captain to retire cause he thinks he's too old. And his wife would like him to retire also.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-12
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The City Girl
Overview: A female photographer who is engaged to a businessman investigates a cult in the local club scene. By living out some of her sexual fantasies, she faces the truth about her life and helps one of the cult's victims escape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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The Comeback Kid
Overview: A down-on his-luck baseball pitcher finds a new set of rewards coaching a gang of underprivileged youngsters and romancing a career-oriented playground supervisor who, against her better judgment, put the kids in his charge.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-11
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Harem
Overview: Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a North African desert hideaway by Selim, an Arab mogul.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-06
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Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party
Overview: Hugh Hefner invites you to Playboy’s Roller Disco and Pajama Party! With your host, Richard Dawson!
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-23
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Casting
Overview: A famous director wants to make a film about true love, the kind his grandparents experienced when they lived together for 60 years. For this project, he holds auditions in a commercial real estate office. He asks the actors and actresses he meets to tell him about their conception of Love, with results that differ from those he expected...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-17
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Rich
Overview: A young man living in the inner city, runs into conflicts with his mother when he decides to pursue a college education instead of accepting an offer for a full-time job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-25
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Bachelor Party
Overview: On the eve of his wedding to his longtime girlfriend, unassuming nice guy Rick is dragged out for a night of debauchery by his friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-29
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Zapped!
Overview: Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward itself with out touching it, Barney finds he has accidently discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school boy who can move things with just his mind get into?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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Illusions
Overview: A woman in a Hollywood dubbing studio struggles with race and preconceptions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-30
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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Overview: Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous virus that is to be used in bacterial warfare.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-24
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Peter Gunn
Overview: Peter Gunn, a connoisseur of beautiful women and cool jazz, is an ex-cop turned private eye who's caught in the middle of a dangerous gang war.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-23
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Coach
Overview: A young, blonde and beautiful woman is hired to coach a team of underachieving basketball players and against all odds, leads them to victory.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-17
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Body and Soul
Overview: A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-09
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The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20
Overview: The story of Dorothy Stratten (1960-1980), the 1980 Playboy "Playmate of the Year", who was murdered by her estranged husband, just as her entertainment career was taking off.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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The Death of Playboy Playmate
Overview: Have you heard of the famous playmate Dorothy Stratten? A pretty and innocent face exploited. Stratten was born in a Salvation Army hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Simon and Nelly Hoogstraten, who were Dutch immigrants. In 1961 her brother John Arthur was born. Her sister Louise Stratten followed in May 1968. In 1977 she was attending Centennial High School in Coquitlam when, while working part-time at a local Dairy Queen, she met 26-year-old Vancouver-area club promoter and pimp, Paul Snider, who romanced her. Snider later had a photographer take professional nude photos of her which were sent to Playboy magazine in the summer of 1978. She was under the age of 19 at the time, which is the legal age to pose nude in Canada so she had to persuade her mother to sign the model release form.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
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