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Katherine Jolly

Brainy Woman

VOX: Acuanetta

New York City Opera

New York, NY

Katherine Jolly: Brainy Woman

In 1943, a former cheesecake model, known only as ”Acquanetta,” lit up the screen in the B-movie horror film and now cult classic, ”Captive Wild Woman.” Stunning and exotic, Acquanetta played the untameable and gorgeous creation resulting from a mad scientist’s experiments on an ape, a role the young actress sizzled in and played so well a sequel was soon in the can. So began a brief career in bread-and-butter films that ended only a few years later when Acquanetta inexplicably walked away from the Hollywood studio system and swanned off to Mexico.   More….Tickets & Information.