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'''Désirée Cousteau''' is the stage name of a [[pornographic actress]] and [[Striptease|striptease artist]] who was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is best known for her role in the 1978 film ''[[Pretty Peaches]]''.
'''Désirée Cousteau''' (born 1956 or 1957{{r|Emmons 1981}}) is a [[pornographic actress]] and [[striptease]] artist who was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is best known for her role in the 1978 film ''[[Pretty Peaches]]''.


==Career==
==Career==


===Pre-porn===
===Early career===

Cousteau aspired to be a mainstream model, but was told she was not tall enough or thin enough to succeed.<ref name="Upgrade">Becky Emmons, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31731132/the_south_bend_tribune/ "Star of X-rated films wants to upgrade 'art'",] ''The South Bend Tribune'' (South Bend, Indiana), Friday, 11 September 1981, p.14. Retrieved from newspapers.com 3 November 2023.</ref> After a period modeling lingerie,<ref name="Upgrade"/> she secured a small part in [[Jonathan Demme|Jonathan Demme's]] 1974 debut ''[[Caged Heat]]'', a [[Women in prison film|women in prison film]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071266/ ''Caged Heat'',] [[IMDb|Internet Movie Database]]. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref> She is credited as Deborah Clearbranch. In the same year she did a photo shoot for ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]'' magazine, again as Deborah Clearbranch, which was published in the June issue.<ref>[https://penthousegold.com/models/deborahclearbranch.html Deborah Clearbranch,] ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse Gold]]''. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref> She then dropped from view for a time, her career stalled.


Cousteau aspired to model for ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', but was told she was not tall or thin enough.<ref name="Emmons 1981">{{cite news |last1=Emmons |first1=Becky |title=Star of X-rated films wants to upgrade 'art' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31731132/the_south_bend_tribune/ |access-date=24 September 2024 |newspaper=The South Bend Tribune |date=11 September 1981 |issn=1051-7367 |page=14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> After a period modeling lingerie,<ref name="Emmons 1981"/> she appeared in [[Jonathan Demme|Jonathan Demme's]] 1974 debut ''[[Caged Heat]]'' (also known as ''Renegade Girls'').<ref name="Rabkin 1998">{{cite book |last1=Rabkin |first1=Leslie Y. |title=The Celluloid Couch: An Annotated International Filmography of the Mental Health Professional in the Movies and Television, from the Beginning to 1990 |date=1998 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, Md. |isbn=978-0-8108-3462-0 |page=283}}</ref><ref name="Parish 1991">{{cite book |last1=Parish |first1=James Robert |title=Prison Pictures from Hollywood: Plots, Critiques, Casts, and Credits for 293 Theatrical and Made-for-television Releases |date=1991 |publisher=McFarland & Co. |location=Jefferson, N.C. |isbn=978-0-89950-563-3 |page=356}}</ref><ref name="Young 2000">{{cite book |last1=Young |first1=R. G. |title=The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies |date=2000 |publisher=Applause Books |location=New York |isbn=978-1-55783-269-6 |page=81}}</ref> She also posed for ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]'',<ref name="Emmons 1981"/> appearing in the June 1974 issue as Deborah Clearbranch.<ref>{{cite web |title=Penthouse Magazine June 1974 |url=https://penthousegold.com/magazine/penthouse-magazine-june-1974.html |website=Penthouse Gold |access-date=24 September 2024}}</ref>{{Original research inline|date=September 2024}}
===Porn===


===Pornographic films===
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In the late 1970s she began a relationship with Jeff Scheer, who would become her husband and manager. She got breast implants (rare at the time),<ref name="Seka">Seka (with Kerry Zukus), ''Inside Seka, The Platinum Princess of Porn'' (Duncan, Oklohoma: BearManor Media, 2013), Chapter 23.</ref> performed as a go-go dancer, and looked for pornographic work. Her porn career began in 1978, when she did sex scenes in four films, initially with the hybrid [[Stage name|stage name]] of Désirée Clearbranch, before taking a more substantial role in [[Bob Chinn (film director)|Bob Chinn's]] ''[[Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls|Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls]]'', in which she has three sex scenes and something of a narrative arc. ''Pizza Girls'' was followed a couple months later by [[Alex de Renzy|Alex de Renzy's]] ''[[Pretty Peaches]]'', a film constructed entirely around Cousteau.<ref name="Upgrade"/><ref name="Best Paid">Stewart Ettington, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29895821/ "Desiree Cousteau is one of the best paid erotic stars",] ''Courier-Post'' (Camden, New Jersey), Friday, 7 November 1980, p. 8d. Retrieved from newspapers.com 3 November 2023.</ref> It instantly established her as a porn star, a status confirmed when she won the [[Adult Film Association of America]] Best Actress Award for her performance the following year.<ref>[https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/08/19/afaa-awards/ "AFAA Award Ceremonies: A Pictorial History, Part 1 (1977–1980)",] [[The Rialto Report]]. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref>


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Cousteau's porn career began in 1978, when she did sex scenes in four films, initially with the hybrid [[stage name]] of Désirée Clearbranch, before taking a more substantial role in [[Bob Chinn (film director)|Bob Chinn's]] ''[[Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls|Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls]]'', in which she has three sex scenes and something of a narrative arc. ''Pizza Girls'' was followed a couple months later by [[Alex de Renzy|Alex de Renzy's]] ''[[Pretty Peaches]]'', a film constructed entirely around Cousteau.<ref name="Emmons 1981"/><ref name="Ettinger 1980">{{cite news |last1=Ettinger |first1=Stewart |title=Desiree Cousteau is one of the best paid erotic stars |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29895821/ |access-date=24 September 2024 |newspaper=Courier-Post |date=7 November 1980 |via=Newspapers.com |location=Camden, N.J. |page=8D |issn=1050-432X}}</ref> It instantly established her as a porn star, a status confirmed when she won the [[Adult Film Association of America]] Best Actress Award for her performance the following year.<ref>[https://www.therialtoreport.com/2018/08/19/afaa-awards/ "AFAA Award Ceremonies: A Pictorial History, Part 1 (1977–1980)"], [[The Rialto Report]]. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref>
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Other roles quickly followed, most trading on the dizzy naïf persona Cousteau created for ''Pretty Peaches'' (whose storyline was distantly derived from [[Voltaire|Voltaire's]] ''[[Candide]]''). She made around twenty features and loops in 1979, as well as doing photo shoots for magazines such as ''[[Hustler (magazine)|Hustler]]'' and ''[[High Society (magazine)|High Society]]''. Cousteau's 1979 credits include scenes in three movies by French director Gérard Kikoïne. One was in the ambitious French-American co-production ''[[Aphrodesia's Diary]]'', shot mostly in New York and not released until 1983, but the other two were shot in France (Cousteau's dialogue was dubbed).


⚫
Other roles quickly followed, most trading on the dizzy naïf persona Cousteau created for ''Pretty Peaches'' (whose storyline was distantly derived from [[Voltaire|Voltaire's]] ''[[Candide]]''). She made around twenty features and loops in 1979, as well as doing photo shoots for magazines such as ''[[Hustler (magazine)|Hustler]]'' and ''[[High Society (magazine)|High Society]]''. Cousteau's 1979 credits include scenes in three movies by French director Gérard Kikoïne. One was in the ambitious French-American co-production ''[[Aphrodesia's Diary]]'', shot mostly in New York and not released until 1983, but the other two were shot in France (Cousteau's dialogue was dubbed).{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}
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Cousteau announced her retirement from porn films in an interview with ''[[Midnight Blue (TV series)|Midnight Blue]]'' at an event to promote ''Deep Rub'' in the latter part of 1979.<ref name="Midnight">[http://retroloops.blogspot.com/2014/05/interview-desiree-cousteau-1980.html?zx=791306f08d368c00 "Goodbye Desiree Cousteau",] ''[[Midnight Blue (TV series)|Midnight Blue]]'', video archived at [http://retroloops.blogspot.com Retro Loops]. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref><ref>[https://www.therialtoreport.com/2016/07/17/desiree-cousteau/ "Desiree Cousteau: ''Deep Rub'' (1979) event",] [[The Rialto Report]]. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref> She appears, however, to have undertaken a few projects after that date, with a handful of loops and features in 1980 and 1981. All later films purporting to involve Cousteau use archival footage.


⚫
Cousteau announced her retirement from porn films in an interview for the TV series ''[[Midnight Blue (TV series)|Midnight Blue]]'' at an event to promote ''Deep Rub'' in the latter part of 1979.<ref name="Midnight Blue">{{cite episode |title=Goodbye Desiree Cousteau |series=Midnight Blue |series-link=Midnight Blue (TV series) |date=1980 |network=Manhattan Cable Television |time=}}</ref><ref>[https://www.therialtoreport.com/2016/07/17/desiree-cousteau/ "Desiree Cousteau: ''Deep Rub'' (1979) event"], [[The Rialto Report]]. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref> She appears, however, to have undertaken a few projects after that date, with a handful of loops and features in 1980 and 1981. All later films purporting to involve Cousteau use archival footage.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}
Colleagues including the actresses [[Seka (actress)|Seka]]<ref name="Seka"/> and [[Annette Haven]]<ref>Charles Taylor, [https://theforbiddenbookofbeauty.wordpress.com/2023/02/28/annette-haven/ "Annette Haven: What’s a Classy Girl Like You Doing in a Movie Like This?"] The Forbidden Book of Beauty. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref> and the cinematographer David Jennings<ref>David Jennings, ''Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry'' (Bloomington, Indiana: First Book Library, 2000), Chapter 5.</ref> recall Cousteau's eccentric behavior on the set. Actor and director John Sleeman concluded that "she didn't like being in the business".<ref>[http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t190214-vintage-celebrity-feuds.html "Vintage celebrity feuds",], Vintage Erotica Forum, 2 August 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref> This is the impression Cousteau gives in the ''Midnight Blue'' interview, in which she says she prefers striptease, "Because you're on a stage and you never have physical contact with anyone. I never leave the stage. So there's an isolation and a security there that I don't feel with films."<ref name="Midnight"/> In 1980 Cousteau said she could afford to slow down because her film work provided her with a salary and a percentage of profits, which would have been extraordinary in an industry where even the biggest stars were paid by the day.<ref name="Best Paid"/>


Cinematographer David Jennings considered her psychologically unsuited for pornographic work.<ref>David Jennings, ''Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry'' (Bloomington, Indiana: First Book Library, 2000), Chapter 5.</ref> In her ''Midnight Blue'' interview, Cousteau says she prefers striptease, "Because you're on a stage and you never have physical contact with anyone. I never leave the stage. So there's an isolation and a security there that I don't feel with films."<ref name="Midnight Blue"/>
===Post-porn===


===After pornography===
At the time of the ''Midnight Blue'' interview, Cousteau was appearing at the Melody Burlesk in New York, which regularly featured porn stars in addition to its house dancers.<ref name="Midnight"/><ref>[https://www.therialtoreport.com/2014/07/13/the-melody-burlesk-and-the-harmony-dominiques-story/ "The Melody Burlesk and the Harmony: Dominique’s story",] [[The Rialto Report]]. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref> By 1980 she had developed a one-woman show consisting of dance and striptease followed by a Q&A, which she performed in November at the Aquarius Burlesk in [[Gloucester City, New Jersey]].<ref name="Best Paid"/> Cousteau "was covered with a coat and led off stage" by police during a performance at the Parkway Theater in [[Milwaukee]], but "the district attorney's office declined to issue charges".<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|333273733}} |last1=Tianen |first1=Dave |title=City's dealings with 'obscenity' have changed |newspaper=Milwaukee Sentinel |date=22 October 1990 |pages=1–5 }}</ref> Undaunted, she appeared on [[New York City|New York]] cable television's ''[[Robin Byrd|The Robin Byrd Show]]'' in December and danced topless "in front of the single [[Ikegami Tsushinki|Ikegami]] camera" to promote her stage work.<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|294020417}} |last1=Cobb |first1=Nathan |title=In the Big Apple, you, too, can be a television star |newspaper=Boston Globe |date=21 December 1980 |page=1 }}</ref>


Cousteau was still touring in the Fall of 1981.<ref name="Upgrade"/> The venues were mostly X-rated cinemas and burlesque theaters in smaller cities and towns. She spent three weeks a month on the road and did up to five performances a day, including posing nude on patrons' laps for $5 a photograph (with Jeff Scheer as photographer).<ref name="Best Paid"/><ref name="Snapped">"X-film star snapped in police lap", ''The South Bend Tribune'' (South Bend, Indiana), Friday, 18 September 1981, p.18. Retrieved from newspapers.com 23 November 2023. This was an [[Associated Press]] story, picked up by newspapers across the country.</ref> One such patron in [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]] was a vice squad officer, who arrested Cousteau for public indecency.<ref name="Snapped"/> She was identified at the time of her arrest (17 September 1981) as Deborah A. Scheer, aged 26, of [[Arvada, Colorado]].<ref name="Snapped"/> After more than a year of physically gruelling live performance and at least two brushes with the law, she appears to have quit the adult entertainment industry by the end of 1981.
At the time of the ''Midnight Blue'' interview, Cousteau was appearing at the Melody Burlesk in New York, which regularly featured porn stars in addition to its house dancers.<ref name="Midnight Blue"/><ref>[https://www.therialtoreport.com/2014/07/13/the-melody-burlesk-and-the-harmony-dominiques-story/ "The Melody Burlesk and the Harmony: Dominique’s story"], [[The Rialto Report]]. Retrieved 3 November 2023.</ref> She performed a one-woman show consisting of dance and striptease followed by audience questions, which also included posing nude for photographs while seated on patrons' laps.<ref name="Ettinger 1980"/><ref name="Associated Press 1981">{{cite news |title=X-film star snapped in police lap |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/517772540 |access-date=24 September 2024 |newspaper=South Bend Tribune |agency=Associated Press |date=September 18, 1981 |via=Newspapers.com |page=18 |issn=1051-7367 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> By 1981, Cousteau was traveling for three weeks every month to perform at burlesque theaters.<ref name="Emmons 1981"/> During a performance at the Parkway Theater in [[Milwaukee]], Cousteau "was covered with a coat and led off stage" by police, but the district attorney's office declined to prosecute.<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|333273733}} |last1=Tianen |first1=Dave |title=City's dealings with 'obscenity' have changed |newspaper=Milwaukee Sentinel |date=22 October 1990 |pages=1–5 |issn=1052-4479}}</ref> She later danced topless on New York cable television's ''[[The Robin Byrd Show]]'' to promote her stage work.<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|294020417}} |last1=Cobb |first1=Nathan |title=In the Big Apple, you, too, can be a television star |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=21 December 1980 |page=1 |issn=0743-1791}}</ref> After more than a year of physically gruelling live performance and at least two brushes with the law, she appears to have quit the adult entertainment industry by the end of 1981.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}


Cousteau's films remained staples of the shrinking X-rated cinema circuit in the 1980s and of [[Cable television in the United States|cable television]] in the 1990s, as well as of X-rated [[Home video|home video]]. She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1993,<ref>"The XRCO Hall of Fame", Jeremy Stone (editor), ''Adam Film World Guide Directory of Adult Films 1994'' (Los Angeles: Knight Publishing, 1994), p. 57.</ref> and into the AVN Hall of Fame in 1997.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090415212412/http://www.avnawards.com/halloffame.php "AVN Awards Hall of Fame",] archived from the original at avnawards.com on 15 April 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2003.</ref>
Cousteau's films remained staples of the shrinking X-rated cinema circuit in the 1980s and of [[Cable television in the United States|cable television]] in the 1990s, as well as of X-rated [[home video]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}} She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1993,<ref>"The XRCO Hall of Fame", Jeremy Stone (editor), ''Adam Film World Guide Directory of Adult Films 1994'' (Los Angeles: Knight Publishing, 1994), p. 57.</ref> and into the AVN Hall of Fame in 1997.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090415212412/http://www.avnawards.com/halloffame.php "AVN Awards Hall of Fame"], archived from the original at avnawards.com on 15 April 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2003.</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
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* ''800 Fantasy Lane'' (1979), by Svetlana Mischoff
* ''800 Fantasy Lane'' (1979), by Svetlana Mischoff
* ''Candy Goes to Hollywood'' (1979), by [[Gail Palmer]]
* ''Candy Goes to Hollywood'' (1979), by [[Gail Palmer]]
* ''Aphrodesia's Diary'' (shot in 1979, released in 1983), by Gérard Kikoïne
* ''[[Aphrodesia's Diary]]'' (shot in 1979, released in 1983), by Gérard Kikoïne
* ''Enquêtes'' (1979), by Gérard Kikoïne
* ''Enquêtes'' (1979), by Gérard Kikoïne
* ''Initiation au collège'' (1979), aka ''French Finishing School'', by Gérard Kikoïne (as Loic Chalmain)
* ''Initiation au collège'' (1979), aka ''French Finishing School'', by Gérard Kikoïne (as Loic Chalmain)
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* {{cite book|first=Nicolas|last=Barbano|title=Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner|publisher=Rosinante|location=[[Denmark]]|year=1999|isbn=87-7357-961-0}} Includes a chapter on Cousteau.
* {{cite book |first=Nicolas |last=Barbano |title=Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner |publisher=Rosinante |location=[[Denmark]] |year=1999 |isbn=87-7357-961-0}} Includes a chapter on Cousteau.


==External links==
==External links==
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* {{afdb name|id=4181|gender=female|name=Desiree Cousteau}}


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Désirée Cousteau
Born1956 or 1957 (age 67–68)[1]
Occupation(s)Pornographic actress and striptease artist
Years active1978–1981

Désirée Cousteau (born 1956 or 1957[1]) is a pornographic actress and striptease artist who was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is best known for her role in the 1978 film Pretty Peaches.

Career

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Early career

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Cousteau aspired to model for Vogue, but was told she was not tall or thin enough.[1] After a period modeling lingerie,[1] she appeared in Jonathan Demme's 1974 debut Caged Heat (also known as Renegade Girls).[2][3][4] She also posed for Penthouse,[1] appearing in the June 1974 issue as Deborah Clearbranch.[5][original research?]

Pornographic films

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Cousteau's porn career began in 1978, when she did sex scenes in four films, initially with the hybrid stage name of Désirée Clearbranch, before taking a more substantial role in Bob Chinn's Hot and Saucy Pizza Girls, in which she has three sex scenes and something of a narrative arc. Pizza Girls was followed a couple months later by Alex de Renzy's Pretty Peaches, a film constructed entirely around Cousteau.[1][6] It instantly established her as a porn star, a status confirmed when she won the Adult Film Association of America Best Actress Award for her performance the following year.[7]

Other roles quickly followed, most trading on the dizzy naïf persona Cousteau created for Pretty Peaches (whose storyline was distantly derived from Voltaire's Candide). She made around twenty features and loops in 1979, as well as doing photo shoots for magazines such as Hustler and High Society. Cousteau's 1979 credits include scenes in three movies by French director Gérard Kikoïne. One was in the ambitious French-American co-production Aphrodesia's Diary, shot mostly in New York and not released until 1983, but the other two were shot in France (Cousteau's dialogue was dubbed).[citation needed]

Cousteau announced her retirement from porn films in an interview for the TV series Midnight Blue at an event to promote Deep Rub in the latter part of 1979.[8][9] She appears, however, to have undertaken a few projects after that date, with a handful of loops and features in 1980 and 1981. All later films purporting to involve Cousteau use archival footage.[citation needed]

Cinematographer David Jennings considered her psychologically unsuited for pornographic work.[10] In her Midnight Blue interview, Cousteau says she prefers striptease, "Because you're on a stage and you never have physical contact with anyone. I never leave the stage. So there's an isolation and a security there that I don't feel with films."[8]

After pornography

[edit]

At the time of the Midnight Blue interview, Cousteau was appearing at the Melody Burlesk in New York, which regularly featured porn stars in addition to its house dancers.[8][11] She performed a one-woman show consisting of dance and striptease followed by audience questions, which also included posing nude for photographs while seated on patrons' laps.[6][12] By 1981, Cousteau was traveling for three weeks every month to perform at burlesque theaters.[1] During a performance at the Parkway Theater in Milwaukee, Cousteau "was covered with a coat and led off stage" by police, but the district attorney's office declined to prosecute.[13] She later danced topless on New York cable television's The Robin Byrd Show to promote her stage work.[14] After more than a year of physically gruelling live performance and at least two brushes with the law, she appears to have quit the adult entertainment industry by the end of 1981.[citation needed]

Cousteau's films remained staples of the shrinking X-rated cinema circuit in the 1980s and of cable television in the 1990s, as well as of X-rated home video.[citation needed] She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 1993,[15] and into the AVN Hall of Fame in 1997.[16]

Filmography

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1974

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1978

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1979

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  • 800 Fantasy Lane (1979), by Svetlana Mischoff
  • Candy Goes to Hollywood (1979), by Gail Palmer
  • Aphrodesia's Diary (shot in 1979, released in 1983), by Gérard Kikoïne
  • Enquêtes (1979), by Gérard Kikoïne
  • Initiation au collège (1979), aka French Finishing School, by Gérard Kikoïne (as Loic Chalmain)
  • The Tale of Tiffany Lust (released in France as Dolly l'initiatrice in 1979, released in the U.S. in 1981), by Radley Metzger (credited to Gérard Kikoïne)
  • Deep Rub (1979), by Leonard Kirtman (as Leon Gucci)
  • Female Athletes (1979), by Leonard Kirtman (as Leon Gucci)
  • Getting Off (1979), by Ed De Priest
  • Hot Lunch (1979), by John Hayes (as Harold Perkins)
  • Hot Rackets (1979), by Gary Graver (as Robert McCallum) (Cousteau is credited as Désirée Clearbranch)
  • Inside Désirée Cousteau (1979), by Leonard Kirtman (as Leon Gucci)
  • Intimate Illusions (1979), aka Boiling Point, by Gary Graver (as Paul Levis) (Cousteau is credited as Danielle Hunnee)
  • Ms. Magnificent (1979), aka Superwoman, by Joe Sherman
  • Summer Heat (1979), by Christy McCabe and Charles Webb
  • The Ecstasy Girls (1979), by Gary Graver (as Robert Mc Callum)

1980

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  • Randy (1980), aka Randy the Electric Lady, by Phillip Schuman and Zachary Strong

1981

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  • Center Spread Girls (shot in 1981, released in 1982), by Gary Graver (as Robert McCulum)
  • Delicious (1981), by Bill Milling (as Philip Drexler Jr.)

Loops

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Cousteau also appeared in loop collections such as Swedish Erotica (Caballero) and Electric Blue (Scripglow). Some of this material may have been recycled.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Emmons, Becky (11 September 1981). "Star of X-rated films wants to upgrade 'art'". The South Bend Tribune. p. 14. ISSN 1051-7367. Retrieved 24 September 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Rabkin, Leslie Y. (1998). The Celluloid Couch: An Annotated International Filmography of the Mental Health Professional in the Movies and Television, from the Beginning to 1990. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-8108-3462-0.
  3. ^ Parish, James Robert (1991). Prison Pictures from Hollywood: Plots, Critiques, Casts, and Credits for 293 Theatrical and Made-for-television Releases. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. p. 356. ISBN 978-0-89950-563-3.
  4. ^ Young, R. G. (2000). The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies. New York: Applause Books. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-55783-269-6.
  5. ^ "Penthouse Magazine June 1974". Penthouse Gold. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  6. ^ a b Ettinger, Stewart (7 November 1980). "Desiree Cousteau is one of the best paid erotic stars". Courier-Post. Camden, N.J. p. 8D. ISSN 1050-432X. Retrieved 24 September 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "AFAA Award Ceremonies: A Pictorial History, Part 1 (1977–1980)", The Rialto Report. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
  8. ^ a b c "Goodbye Desiree Cousteau". Midnight Blue. 1980. Manhattan Cable Television.
  9. ^ "Desiree Cousteau: Deep Rub (1979) event", The Rialto Report. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
  10. ^ David Jennings, Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry (Bloomington, Indiana: First Book Library, 2000), Chapter 5.
  11. ^ "The Melody Burlesk and the Harmony: Dominique’s story", The Rialto Report. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
  12. ^ "X-film star snapped in police lap". South Bend Tribune. Associated Press. September 18, 1981. p. 18. ISSN 1051-7367. Retrieved 24 September 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Tianen, Dave (22 October 1990). "City's dealings with 'obscenity' have changed". Milwaukee Sentinel. pp. 1–5. ISSN 1052-4479. ProQuest 333273733.
  14. ^ Cobb, Nathan (21 December 1980). "In the Big Apple, you, too, can be a television star". The Boston Globe. p. 1. ISSN 0743-1791. ProQuest 294020417.
  15. ^ "The XRCO Hall of Fame", Jeremy Stone (editor), Adam Film World Guide Directory of Adult Films 1994 (Los Angeles: Knight Publishing, 1994), p. 57.
  16. ^ "AVN Awards Hall of Fame", archived from the original at avnawards.com on 15 April 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2003.

Further reading

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  • Barbano, Nicolas (1999). Verdens 25 hotteste pornostjerner. Denmark: Rosinante. ISBN 87-7357-961-0. Includes a chapter on Cousteau.
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