The WJAD studio, that is. This is an 8 x 10" print with no border, with the little handwritten identification number 69-34A-4 added to the print in the lower right-hand corner. It was shot during…
[caption id="attachment_592" align="alignleft" width="300"] Left to right: Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, Artie Weinstein, Paul Sass. Just beyond the periphery: Billy Mernit[/caption] Back to the 8 x 10 Kodak prints... here's another shot of Robin as…
"Words cannot express the sheer unbelievability of this performer and her material." Here we have Robin on set at the Cleo Club, in the full Aggie Doon getup. Her hair is now slicked back, and…
Black limbo, that is. This photo isn't one of the "Kodak paper" series, but I'm going through these photos in the order they'd appear in the film (since I don't know the order in which…
"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…
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…