When I first happened upon this 1967 film trailer for the story of a particularly sexy 15 year old girl (appropriately named “Arlene”), I thought “well, this is touching.” But then, only seconds later, I realized… wait, Arlene is seducing the man of her 15 year old dreams by noshing on a piece of chicken? Really? That’s proof of the power of youth. No man is dying to bang a weathered 49 year old woman with a mouth full of chicken (unless he’s starving or something). Watch the clip before I go on:
Obviously I had to find out exactly who this vixen was… Who could Arlene be?! Arlene Farber, to be exact. And she happened to be relatively famous in her day. At first I thought the name Arlene was a not-s0-clever fake name for my mom’s real identity, but upon further research I found that seductress is really Arlene of Middle Class Long Island Suburbia:
Arlene Farber was an extremely attractive and appealing brunette actress who appeared in a handful of enjoyably down’n’dirty exploitation pictures that were primarily made in the New York state area throughout the 60s and 70s. Arlene attended South Grove Elementary School in Syosset, New York and Floral Park Junior High in Floral Park, New York. She graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village, New York in 1965. Farber made her film debut as Nellie in “Girl on a Chain Gang,” which was directed by her close friend Jerry Gross. Arlene played juicy lead roles in two other movies directed by Gross: She was cute high school adolescent Arlene Taylor in “Teenage Mother” and very sexy and impressive as sweet, yet sultry peasant girl Angelique in the racy “Female Animal.” Her other memorable roles include vivacious fame-hungry ballerina Toni in the lurid roughie “Two Girls for a Madman;” very funny as Tony Lo Bianco’s whiny girlfriend Angie Boca in “The French Connection,” and sassy backwoods hick chick Martha in the offbeat made-for-TV movie “All the Kind Strangers.”
