Cheri Caffaro

Slim shapely and welltanned blonde bombshell Cheri Caffaro was born in 1945 in Miami Florida Caffaro won a Lifetime magazine Brigitte Bardot lookalike contest when she was a teenager and worked as a model throughout the 60s Cheri achieved a substantial amount of 70s exploitation cinema notoriety by portraying sexy resourceful and formidable undercover government agent Ginger McAllister in a delightfully downndirty trio of blithely seedy drivein softcore action romps the supremely scuzzy Ginger 1971 the splendidly sleazy The Abductors 1972 and the pleasingly trashy Girls Are for Loving 1973 The Ginger pictures were a series of gleefully lowrent affairs with a funky distaff James Bondtype antiheroine using both her brains and her body to thwart assorted nasty criminals Caffaro brought a hard fierce steely edge and raw earthy unbridled sex appeal to the part of Ginger thats alluring and unnerving in equal measure Cheri was likewise solid and effective as a stuckup spoiled rich woman in the tawdry A Place Called Today 1972 a tough revolutionary in the fun Savage Sisters 1974 and a cunning deadly yet enticing international lady assassin in the entertainingly tacky Too Hot to Handle 1977 Alas Caffaros moment in the acting spotlight proved to be fleeting Cheri went on to cowrite and coproduce the hilariously raunchy comedy hoot HOTS 1979 She also served as an associate producer for the cruddy horror flick The Demons of Ludlow 1983 Her last known credit is supplying a voice for the Extreme Ghostbusters 1997 cartoon TV series Cheri Caffaro abruptly quit show business and now lives in Los Angeles where she raises her own honey bees IMDb mini biography by woodyanders