Jennifer Billingsley

Pretty, appealing and energetic blonde actress Jennifer Billingsley was born in Honolulu in 1940. An army brat who grew up all over the world, she graduated with honors from Fort Smith (Arkansas) Senior High School in 1958. Her initial claim to fame was her striking resemblance to Brigitte Bardot. She garnered plenty of favorable critical notices for her lively performance in the hit Broadway musical, "Carnival". She made her film debut as James Caan's wild teenage moll girlfriend in the harrowing thriller, Lady in a Cage (1964). Billingsley had a recurring part on the popular daytime soap opera, General Hospital (1963). She then appeared in a handful of hugely entertaining low-budget drive-in features throughout the 1970s: a scruffy motorcycle mama in the biker romp, C.C. & Company (1970); a sexy hippie hitchhiker in the sleazy Brute Corps (1971); a brash young lass in the Vietnam vets exploitation flick, Welcome Home Soldier Boys (1971); a sassy Southerner in the immensely enjoyable