Doris Wishman week (July 21 – 27) Doris made the loopiest of movies. A self-proclaimed prude who made nudist camp movies, her filmography is filled with contradictions. When she tried to be mean spirited with something like Bad Girls Go To Hell there was always an undercurrent of silliness and fun, but when she tried to be silly and fun in things like Keyholes Are For Peeping there was an underlying seediness and grime that couldn’t be wiped off. It’s hard not to love her!  

Liliana Wilczkowska was born in Poland and was orphaned by the Nazis. She grew up in Israel, moving to the U.S. in 1957 to marry Josef Wilczkowski ten days after they met. Her husband and one of his meat market employees died in a robbery in 1965 and by the 70s, she was using her 73-32-36 body as an exotic dancer, going by the name of  Zsa Zsa “Chesty” Gabborr, dancing mainly to pay for her two young daughters.

She made it to the “Combat Zone” of Boston red light clubs and took on the name Chesty Moore. Dancing to Tom Jones’ “Delilah,” she would often allow men to touch her breasts to prove they were real. You have to understand that her body defies imagination.

Wearing bras specially made by Texas company Command Performance, she would often appear with two little people, each carrying a breast. She married — and quickly divorced — National League umpire Dick Stello, and then she appeared in two of Doris Wishman’s films. I’ll get to one of them in a moment. She’s also the only person I can think of that is in a Wishman movie and a Fellini film, as she was cut from Casanova.

Morgan kept dancing four months a year — she made $8,000 a week — and doing real estate in the off season until 1991, when she was 54 years old. Tired of the constant legal battles, she became a landlady just as she became famous all over again when John Waters featured a scene from Deadly Weapons in his movie Serial Mom.

In this film, she plays Crystal, an ad exec whose lover Larry (Richard Towers) has just been killed. To get revenge, she drugs and smothers man after man with, well, her mams. There’s Tony (Harry Reems), Captain Hook and by the end, even her own father in her way. Chesty also seems always just on the verge of falling asleep.

Do you need any more reasons to watch this? Well, the soundtrack, made up of library cuts from KPM Music’s KPM 1055 Dramatic Background, is incredible. That song “Hippy?” That’s the trailer music for Torso. You’ll fall in love with the theme, “Hard Selling Woman” by Mike Lease with The Studio G’s Beat Group. And despite how grimy this may all feel at times, you may fall for this film, too. There’s nothing else like it and somehow, the sequel is even weirder.

You can download this from the Internet Archive.