I was watching something the other day on TV and they made a joke about
Debbie Does Dallas, the old 1978 movie, which was probably the most famous adult movie ever made. It got me thinking, what ever happened to Debbie of Debbie Does Dallas?
I started my research over at
Search Extreme. They have a massive database of all these movies. That site tells us that the movie was 83 minutes long, was directed by Jim Clark and was originally released in 1978.
One of the All-Time X-Rated Favorites! Debbie Does Dallas #01 stars Christie Ford, Debbie Lewis, Herschel Savage, David Morris, David Sutton, Steve Marshall,
Robin Byrd, Eric Edwards, Jenny Cole, Rikki O'Neal, Merle Michaels,
Georgette Saunders, Peter Lerman, Tony Mansfield, Bambi Woods, R. Bolla,
Kasey Rodgers, Jack Teague, Ben Pierce.
The movie stars Bambi Woods as Debbie. So let's start by figuring out what we do know about Bambi Woods.
As the story goes ...
The director of the film, Jim Clark was originally planning on making a film called
'Teenage Services'. Things changed when he met Bambi: "A young woman
came into the studio that I was working in at the time, told me her
story of woe coming back from Dallas trying out for the cheerleaders
down there. So I called up my partner at the time and said I got an
idea, why don't we scrap this and we'll do this! He said, "sounds like a
good idea to me". And that"s how it was born? It was really born out of
her personality. She was as bubbly as you could get. She seemed to be
healthy in her attitude to sex. The only thing she had a problem with
that I was not aware of at the time was she had a drug problem. I named
her Bambi Woods."
The film went on to become one of the top five grossing porn movies of
all time.
All the sources I could find document her date of birth at July 12, 1955 (this makes her a Cancer). Some seem to think she was born in South Bend, Indiana, while another source says she was born in Pierre, South Dakota.
Bambi had no intention of becoming a porn star. "The only reason I went
in the first place was because I needed the money. I didn't go looking
for it but I needed the money." After 'Debbie Does Dallas' was released,
she supported herself by working as a stripper at New York's Melody
Burlesque Theater with other top names such as Seka, Kandi Barbour and
Lysa Thatcher. Fred Lincoln, porn actor, director and producer later
recalled: "I was the first person to ever put porno girls in theaters
and nightclubs in New York. I did it by convincing this guy, Bernie, to
hire Bambi Woods. He paid her three thousand dollars and told me, "If
she don't make this money back, you gotta pay us." She packed the club."
One visitor remembered having "Bambi Woods sprawled out totally nude
across my lap, hands permitted anywhere - she just wanted a buck every
2-3 minutes or so."
Bambi Woods had a very shorted lived career in porn. Appearing in only four known films -
Debbie Does Dallas and its 1981 and 1985 sequels, and another film called
Swedish Erotica 12 in 1981.
So where in the world is she now?
- One story is that she died of a drug overdose. This was later proved to be false by a few who knew her but still refused to disclose what did happen to her.
- One story is that she is an anonymous homemaker and mother living in the Des Moines, Iowa area.
- Another story in October 2010 came out saying she married to a computer software developer in the Silicon Valley and has two children.
What we know for sure is that anyone in the porn industry who did know her won't reveal what he real indetity is nor tell what ever really happened to her.
