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Dorothy LeMay is a
former American adult film actress, who was active in porn from the
late 1970s until the early-1980s. She was inducted into the AVN Hall
of Fame in 1998.
Dorothy is best
remembered for her role as Sherry McBride in the adult classics
Taboo and Taboo II. She also starred in the memorable 1981 porn
thriller Night Dreams (her personal favorite work), which featured
her first (and only) interracial scene.
Dorothy was working
at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 when she got her
start in porn doing "loops" after answering an ad in their paper
that said "make $300 a day."
Dorothy ran out of
the theater crying after seeing her first film Formal Faucet, she
felt that it was a "disaster" because her voice was dubbed over with
someone else's, and it "didn't make sense". She had worked on Formal
Faucet 18 hours a day for three days. The experience bothered her so
much that she considered getting out of the business. However, her
second film Sensual Encounters of Every Kind was a much better
experience and she ended up staying in the industry for a few more
years.
Dorothy ended up
leaving the adult movie business after filming her scenes for Night
Dreams in 1981, because she had just broken up with her boyfriend
and had a good job at ABC Messenger Service in LA. A few films
(notably Taboo II) were released after Night Dreams because they
were already filmed before she left the business.
Dorothy made an
unaccredited cameo appearance as a nude party-goer in the 1979
mainstream film 10, which starred Dudley Moore and Bo Derek.
After seeing her
nude cameo in 10, her conservative family (who had no idea about her
porn career) called her at 2:00 a.m. to say "you're sinning."
Dorothy bears a
striking resemblance to former child actress Susan Olsen, who played
Cindy Brady on the 1970s sitcom The Brady Bunch.
Partial filmography
Taboo II (1982)
Vista Valley P.T.A. (1981)
Taboo (1980)
10 (1979) (unaccredited)
Bad Company (1978)
Female Athletes (1977) |