1970-80 жылдардағы ересек фильмдер актері Désirée Cousteau

American pornographic actress

Désirée Cousteau is the stage name of a pornographic actress and striptease artist who was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is best known for her role in the 1978 film Pretty Peaches.

Cousteau aspired to be a mainstream model, but was told she was not tall enough or thin enough to succeed. After a period modeling lingerie, She is credited as Deborah Clearbranch. In the same year she did a photo shoot for Penthouse magazine, again as Deborah Clearbranch, which was published in the June issue. She then dropped from view for a time, her career stalled.

In the late 1970s she began a relationship with Jeff Scheer, who would become her husband and manager. She got breast implants (rare at the time), performed as a go go dancer, and looked for pornographic work. Her porn career began in 1978, when she did sex scenes in four films, initially with the hybrid stage name of Désirée Clearbranch, before taking a more substantial role in Bob Chinn's Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls, in which she has three sex scenes and something of a narrative arc. Pizza Girls was followed a couple months later by Alex de Renzy's Pretty Peaches, a film constructed entirely around Cousteau. It instantly established her as a porn star, a status confirmed when she won the Adult Film Association of America Best Actress Award for her performance the following year. Other roles quickly followed, most trading on the dizzy naïf persona Cousteau created for Pretty Peaches (whose storyline was distantly derived from Voltaire's Candide). She made around twenty features and loops in 1979, as well as doing photo shoots for magazines such as Hustler and High Society. Cousteau's 1979 credits include scenes in three movies by French director Gérard Kikoïne. One was in the ambitious French American co production Aphrodesia's Diary, shot mostly in New York and not released until 1983, but the other two were shot in France (Cousteau's dialogue was dubbed). Cousteau announced her retirement from porn films in an interview with Midnight Blue at an event to promote Deep Rub in the latter part of 1979. She appears, however, to have undertaken a few projects after that date, with a handful of loops and features in 1980 and 1981. All later films purporting to involve Cousteau use archival footage. Colleagues including the actresses Seka recall Cousteau's eccentric behavior on movie shoots. Cinematographer David Jennings considered her psychologically unsuited for pornographic work. Actor and director John Sleeman concluded that "she didn't like being in the business". This is the impression Cousteau gives in the Midnight Blue interview, in which she says she prefers striptease, "Because you're on a stage and you never have physical contact with anyone. I never leave the stage. So there's an isolation and a security there that I don't feel with films." By 1980 she had developed a one woman show consisting of dance and striptease followed by a Q&A, which she performed in November at the Aquarius Burlesk in Gloucester City, New Jersey. Undaunted, she appeared on New York cable television's The Robin Byrd Show in December and danced topless "in front of the single Ikegami camera" to promote her stage work. Cousteau was still touring in the Fall of 1981. One such patron in Fort Wayne, Indiana was a vice squad officer, who arrested Cousteau for public indecency. and into the AVN Hall of Fame in 1997.

Cousteau also appeared in loop collections such as Swedish Erotica (Caballero) and Electric Blue (Scripglow). Some of this material may have been recycled.