When the men go off for lunch, Vixen stays behind with the depressed Janet at the cabin. Meanwhile, poor Janet (played by curvy blonde Vincene Wallace) is the sexually frustrated wife, unable to compete with Vixen for the attention of her husband, and utterly failing in her efforts to come on to their host. Vixen lives only for the moment, and the consequences be damned. As they make love in the stream, she laughs in wicked, erotic pleasure. The two couples go fishing the next day, and Vixen offers to show Dave a new spot where he ‘can't miss.’ “You attract me-and when I'm attracted, I respond,” she murmurs heavily, unbuttoning her shirt. She picks up a trout from the barbecue, fondles it with arched eyebrows, kisses it, and then puts the fish inside her blouse, while fisherman Dave is watching with sweaty, gape-mouthed desire, his wife Janet quietly seethes, and good old Tom stupidly goes on cooking. Vixen sets out to tantalize the guy at the barbecue, suggestively dancing above him in her form-fitting miniskirt (as Meyer shoot from below to look up her dress). Tom brings home a married couple on a fishing trip, and then the fun begins. And she’s shameless, as seen when she mockingly offers her body to Judd and expresses interest in making it with a couple of girls. She’s a racist, as demonstrated by her contemptuous comments toward Niles, the draft-resisting black friend of her brother Judd. We can see immediately that this over-poweringly sensual, dark, heavy-lidded beauty is a seductress who knows exactly what she wants, will do anything to get it and afterward will move on without a moment of any human emotion other than lust and personal gratification. Once the act is done, she declares, “we’ve had our fun, now it’s business as usual.” Away from home much of the time, he knows his bombshell wife Vixen likes to tease, “but she knows where to draw the line”-and as he speaks these trusting words to a client we see Erica frolicking with a rugged playmate who turns out to be a Canadian Mountie, ripping off her bikini top, and urging him to make love to her on the grass. Tom Palmer (played by Garth Pillsbury as one of those square-jawed but dimly oblivious leading men favored by Meyer) is a bush pilot who makes a living bringing in tourists for a vacation in the wilds. Vixen is set in the Canadian bush country of British Columbia. Those woods just went on and on forever.” Filming ran from around the end of June 1968 into early August. Then she was driven about ten miles down a dirt road to a cabin owned by a friend of Meyer’s. Next thing I knew, I was leaving town.” It was a Greyhound bus ride of a few hours north to the small town of Miranda, just below the Oregon border. First, with everyone cast, he got us all together and screened Faster Pussycat for us, so we could see what kind of work he did. “About two weeks after I was hired, we began filming. She was hired, and the most celebrated chapter in Erica’s journey was about to begin. And it would be a twist.’ It's funny, Russ can be so crass at times, but at other times he can be so gentle and sweet. I met with Russ, and he said, ‘well, George thinks that because your bosoms aren’t as big as most of my girls, maybe women can relate more to you. “Then, all of a sudden, they called me back. He said he’d discuss the candidates with Russ, and I might get a call back. So I said, ‘yeah, sure!’ After you take your top off every night at the club, it’s almost like brushing your teeth. At the end of the interview, George said, kind of embarrassed, ‘before you leave, could you take your top off?’ Well, I knew I’d have to do that on screen, and he had to see. “He had interviewed more than three hundred women. ![]() I’d never even heard the word ‘vixen’ before that.’Įrica made an appointment and did a reading with Meyer’s right-hand man George Costello. When it said ‘the female fox’, I didn't interpret that in a sexual way. The ad was pretty tame, and I had no idea what kind of movie it would be. ![]() Teas, which was playing at The Vista Theater, up the street from where I grew up, near where Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset intersect. I didn’t know he was the one who made The Immoral Mr. The ad had legitimized to me what Haji and Tura had been saying. “When I saw that ad, it just clicked in my mind.
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