Gloria Leonard

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Gloria Leonard (born August 28, 1940, in The Bronx, New York, U.S. — died February 3, 2014, in Waimea, Hawaii, U.S.) was a former American award-winning porn star, magazine publisher, and director whose best known for her role in the controversial 1984 adult film mini-series Taboo: American Style, the very first of its kind. Leonard later became the co-founder and publisher of the adult magazine High Society, which originally catered to fans of the mature, sophisticated female.

Adult film career

Gloria Leonard began appearing in hardcore pornography in 1976, in films including The Trouble with Young Stuff, All About Gloria Leonard (both of which were written and directed by Joseph W. Sarno), The Opening of Misty Beethoven (directed by Radley Metzger), Fortune Smiles and Taboo: American Style. She worked with actresses Constance Money, Leslie Bovee, Sharon Mitchell, Jennifer Welles, and Samantha Fox before retiring from the screen in the 1984. She also directed several porn films, and was formerly married to Bobby Hollander. After moving to Hawaii in 1993, she returned to Los Angeles in 1997 to work for Private Media Group.

Magazine appearances

Interviews:
  • High Society Presents Who's Who in X-Rated Films (U.S.) 1977, Iss. 1, pp. 6–7, “Glorious Gloria!”
  • Cinema-X Review (U.S.) June 1980, Vol. 1, Iss. 6, pp. 35–38, by: Bobby Hollander, “Gloria Leonard: An Exclusive Interview”
  • High Society (U.S.) September 1986, by: Deborah Bennett, “Porn Star Q&A: Is There Anything You Won’t Do?”
  • The Very Best of High Society (U.S.) 1988, Vol. 4, Iss. 5, pp. 14–16 + 52 + 68, by: Stephen Loshiavo, “High Society Interview: Gloria Leonard”
Articles:
  • High Society (U.S.) December 2001, Vol. 26, Iss. 12, p. 7, “Where Are They Now? Gloria Leonard”
Pictorials:
  • Playmen (Italy) August 1979, pp. 108-115, by: Jerry Bauer, “Un Taxi che si chiamo desiderio”
  • Cinema-X Review (U.S.) June 1980, Vol. 1, Iss. 6, pp. 48–53, “Gloria Leonard: The Boss Bitch”
  • High Society (U.S.) December 1980, “Gloria Leonard & John Holmes: Together for the First Time”
  • High Society (U.S.) March 1984
  • The Very Best of High Society (U.S.) 1986, Vol. 1, Iss. 4, pp. 56–61, “Gloria Leonard and John Holmes: Star-Studded Performance”
  • High Society (U.S.) May 1996, Vol. 21, Iss. 5, pp. 28–29, “Undressed for Success: Gloria Leonard--Publisher 1978-91”
Magazine covers:
  • High Society (U.S.) May 1976
  • High Society (U.S.) January 1978
  • High Society (U.S.) July 1979
  • Cinema-X Review (U.S.) June 1980, Vol. 1, Iss. 6

Profile films

  • All About Gloria Leonard (1978), 9 scenes, Video-X-Pix, dir. Joe Sarno and Gloria Leonard; at the end of the movie there is a screen that reads: “Based on the memoirs of Gloria Leonard / All the scenes in this film are true and accurate representations of my actual life experiences / Gloria Leonard”

Milestones

  • First anal in Virgin Dreams (1976), scene 8, VCX, dir. Zebedy Colt
  • First and only double penetration scene in her sowcase movie All About Gloria Leonard (1978), scene 9 with Marc Stevens and Jamie Gillis.

High Society

During her adult film career, for 14 years Leonard served as publisher of High Society magazine, which pioneered such novelties as nude celebrity photos and phone sex lines. She was hired by the magazine’s publisher Carl Ruderman, who wanted a female publisher of a men’s magazine. Margot Kidder, Ann-Margret, and Barbra Streisand all attempted to sue the magazine after it published nude photos of them. Leonard established the first phone-sex lines in 1983, and the magazine fought a legal case over them in the Supreme Court. She was in charge of High Society from 1977 to 1991. In the early 1980s, Leonard almost clinched a deal for Norman Mailer to write a porn film; however, the plan never came to fruition.

Organizations

She served as administrative director of the Adult Film Association, the adult film industry trade association, from 1989 to 1992, until that organization merged with the Free Speech Coalition. In 1998, she was elected president of the F.S.C. She was also president of the American Film and Video Association.

Awards

She won the Best Actress award for Taboo, American Style from the AFVA .Leonard is a member of the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame (1996) and AVN Hall of Fame.

Death

Leonard suffered a massive stroke in her home in Waimea, Hawaii on January 31, 2014, or early hours of February 1.[1] She wasn’t found until about 24 hours later and transported to a nearby hospital. She was left with extensive brain damage as a result of the stroke and died February 3, 2014, after being taken off life support.[2]

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External links

References

  1. NYTimes news article
  2. Kernes, Mark. Legendary Adult Actress Gloria Leonard Passes. Adult Video News. Retrieved on 4 February 2014.



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