"I'm not dancing topless." 12-year-old Trini Alvarado enacts 13-year-old Pamela Pearl making her debut as an exotic dancer, thankfully not topless. There are other images of this scene that were taken at the same…
Another 8x10 color print marked as Kodak paper from the 1970s-80s on the back. Normally when printing an 8x10 the image would be enlarged to fill the 8-inch dimension, cropping out about 2 inches…
[caption id="attachment_329" align="alignleft" width="300"] "Oh, we ran all day long." -- Robin[/caption] This is an 8x10 print, showing the full 35mm frame, of Nicky and Pammy running from the plainclothes detective, about…
So: the girls are east of Times Square and headed for it. They've already traded clothes, and are on foot. In the film, this happens after they've been on the subway in those…
[caption id="attachment_217" align="alignleft" width="300"] "The man with the walkie-talkie was the 1st assistant director, 'Hoppy' (that was his nick-name on the set)." -- Robin[/caption] This is the only photo I've come across showing the production…
And this, of course, is the look they settled on for Nicky, ultimately using this photo on nearly all the American publicity materials. As this is the outfit she wears when the girls escape from…
And the story continues... Allan Moyle wanted "real" girls, not professional actresses, to portray Nicky and Pammy, and searched high and low, even holding nation-wide open auditions, with no luck. Trini Alvarado was hired for…
So the story goes, Allan Moyle and Leanne Ungar rented an apartment on 42nd Street, having come to New York from a vibrant filmmaking scene in Montreal. They bought a used couch and found in…