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For the Guiding Light character, see Michelle Bauer Santos.
Michelle Bauer
Born (1958-10-01) October 1, 1958 (age 66)
Montebello, California, U.S.
Other namesKim Bittner, Michelle McClellan
Occupation(s)model, actress
Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Michelle Bauer (born October 1, 1958 in Montebello, California) is an American B-movie actress, scream queen and pornographic actress.

Career

Bauer was Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month for July 1981 and also appeared in many other adult magazines during the early to mid 1980s, under a number of different names.

Bauer also starred in the pornographic film Cafe Flesh (1982) under the name of Pia Snow.[1] She states that she was happy to appear in the film, and on the covers of other X-rated films, but insisted on a double for the sex scenes.[citation needed] Bauer appeared in several other pornographic titles under her Pia Snow moniker, including Bad Girls, Bizarre People, Nightdreams, and others.

Bauer's Penthouse centerfold appearance led to acting for the Playboy Channel and a film try-out for director Fred Olen Ray. Ray liked her audition, and offered her the part if she would be willing to dye her hair black. Her first B-movie was The Tomb (1986), it would be the first of many.

Her life and career are one of the main subjects of the 2011 documentary Screaming in High Heels: The Rise and Fall of the Scream Queen Era by director Jason Paul Collum.

Personal life

Bauer is her married name, from her first husband. After they divorced, he filed a lawsuit requesting she not use it for her films. She tried appearing as Michelle McClellen, using the name of her second husband, in Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), but the press resisted, so she returned to Bauer, which the first husband eventually accepted.[2]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ "Cafe Flesh (1982)" film review by Alan Jones, BBC Radio Times. Retrieved 2007-09-25. (Dead link)
  2. ^ "Michelle Bauer", interviews by Frederick C. Szebin and Catherine Carson, Femme Fatales, April 22, 1995. Archived at PicPal's Michelle Bauer Home Page. Retrieved 2007-09-30.
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