
Acting
Gloria Leonard
Born — Died
1940-05-28 — 2014-02-03
Place of birth
The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
71 titles
Gloria Leonard (born Gale Sandra Klinetsky; August 28, 1940 – February 3, 2014) was an American pornographic actress who became the publisher of High Society magazine. As a board member of Adult Video Association and its successor the Free Speech Coalition, Leonard was an outspoken advocate for the adult film industry and free speech rights
Known for
5.9The AVN Awards are movie awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine AVN (Adult Video News) to honor exceptional performance in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic movies. The "Oscars of porn".
AVN Awards
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5.4The outrageous story of 1970s porn icon Jack Wrangler, and how he rose to the top of the gay, and then straight, adult film industry.
Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon
2008
3.5This is the story of young Tony Cannelloni as he attempts to break away from his overbearing mom and strike out on his own. He sets himself up with a new apartment, look, and lifestyle to improve his "sex appeal". Through a series of encounters with a variety of women he gets ever closer to achieving his goal. However, a never-ending series of calamities always seem to interrupt his progress.
Sex Appeal
1986
No synopsis available yet.
Porn... It's a Living
1998
3.8A mystery writer and his wife are terrorized by a swinger couple.
Thrilled to Death
1988
7.0When _____ Ruled the World looks at pop culture phenomenona and explores why and how the subject of the show so effectively captured the imagination of the populace. Take a trip down memory lane and explore the zeitgeist of yesterday.
When Rated X Ruled the World
2004
Film credits
2020s · 1 titles
2010s · 1 titles
2000s · 3 titles
5.4The outrageous story of 1970s porn icon Jack Wrangler, and how he rose to the top of the gay, and then straight, adult film industry.
Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon
2008
7.0When _____ Ruled the World looks at pop culture phenomenona and explores why and how the subject of the show so effectively captured the imagination of the populace. Take a trip down memory lane and explore the zeitgeist of yesterday.
When Rated X Ruled the World
2004
NRYou asked for it...and here it is. In all it's XXX splendor. After carefully surveying our loyal customers, we went to the major (and even some minor) video producers, acquiring the hottest video vignettes available anywhere. The entire footage was then grouped into the erotic situations you most wanted to see.
The Peoples Choice: Hall of Fame Babes
2007
1990s · 8 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Porn... It's a Living
1998
NRDocumentary on the porn industry at the end of the 1980s.
Playpen of the Damned
1990
NRAnything goes with anyone action is what you get from Catalina's Award winning series of Bi Sexual features! Hardcore non stop bi sexual fucking.
Revenge of the Bi-Dolls
1994
8.5A cum splashed explosion of bi-sexual sucking and fucking!
Valley of the Bi Dolls
1993
6.5It happened in Oxford, Mississippi. It happened in Alabama, Utah, Florida and Tennessee. While the criminals commit crime and the killers kill, your government spends your tax dollars prosecuting adult video. It happened to us. It could happen to you. Vivid presents On Trial 4: Verdict. This is the final chapter. The jury has reached a verdict in the obscenity case. And it ends just as it began. With a passion.
On Trial 4: The Verdict
1992
5.5The case that was presented in Parts 1 and 2 is now in the hands of the jury. As they deliberate on the merits of each scene and try to determine if its contents are obscene, the jurors' points are illustrated by fantasy sequences (involving themselves), and flashbacks from the movie.
On Trial 3: Taking It to the Jury
1992
5.5Mark Evans bring his friend Gordon Parks to a sex castle to help with his problem - Gordon is afraid he might secretly be gay. Gordon has sex with Moana but is unable to ejaculate, amplifying his fears. Moana's solution to try and cure him is a novel treatment. The second half of a two-part movie.
The Naked Goddess II
1992
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Made in Heaven
1991
1980s · 24 titles
3.5This is the story of young Tony Cannelloni as he attempts to break away from his overbearing mom and strike out on his own. He sets himself up with a new apartment, look, and lifestyle to improve his "sex appeal". Through a series of encounters with a variety of women he gets ever closer to achieving his goal. However, a never-ending series of calamities always seem to interrupt his progress.
Sex Appeal
1986
3.8A mystery writer and his wife are terrorized by a swinger couple.
Thrilled to Death
1988
8.0A look at sexual practices in the USA.
Mondo Sexualis USA
1987
7.0Faith is a struggling cateress trying to support herself and her loser boyfriend, Al. At a social function she overhears a friendly wager offered by a socialite. The wager is $250,000 to whomever can have intimate sex with the world's top 10 male lovers within fifty days. Faith accepts the challenge, but discovers complications as she and her official "witness" spend such a long time traveling the globe together.
Bon Appétit
1980
7.5Lauded by critics as the finest film of the year, Taboo American-Style is the four-part saga of one young woman's sexual awakening - and the power she attains with it. In part 2, Nina's newfound sexuality prompts her to take on her mother's secret lover, which in turn created more than a little tension around the house.
Taboo American Style 2: The Story Continues
1985
7.1Billie is an advertising executive with a secret past she can’t seem to leave behind. Joan is a hopeful young actress looking for the right part and the right guy. Sherry is a model whose whirlwind lifestyle is catching up with her.
Roommates
1982
9.0Vanessa del Rio and her friends engage in carnal adventures in New York City.
Magic Girls
1985
6.0Adult film historian Jim Holliday narrates this collection of clips from films from porn's "golden ages" featuring dozens of stars.
Legends of Porn
1987
7.7A teenage girl gets her first sexual experience with her best friend's boyfriend and the news turns her upper-middle class family upside down.
Taboo American Style: The Ruthless Beginning
1985
7.5Lauded by critics as the finest film of the year, Taboo American-Stye is the four-part saga of one young woman's sexual awakening – and the power she attains with it. In part 3, Nina continues her campaign of unabashed seduction, taking on all comers. But such sexual feats are not enough for Nina, and it isn't long before she set her sights on Hollywood...
Taboo American Style 3: Nina Becomes an Actress
1986
6.7Naughty Nina Sutherland continues her quick rise to fame and fortune, leaving her broken and sexually exhausted family in ruins. She's set her sights on show biz - and pity the fool who stands in her way. First, she makes sure her acting competition, Felitia Barry, is caught in the act on the casting couch. Then, to snatch a leading role, she meeds Sid Holtzman, a perverse agent who likes to watch his wife make it with young studs. When Nina arranges this sultry scenario, she finally lands a spot in the big-time. "Everything runs smoothly for our new starlet, until cranky critic D.D. Dorfman wages a one-man war against Nina on nation TV. Nina can't take criticism, so she gives our doubting Dorfman a private performance - and needless to say, his reaction is "thumbs up!
Taboo American Style 4: The Exciting Conclusion
1986
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Dirty Looks
1982
4.8The weather's cool and the sex is hot when nine world famous cover girls set the town burning in this autumn indulgence. A naughty boutique is the meeting place for the devious and sensual women of OCTOBER SILK. Young women go shopping for lingerie and realize their sexual fantasies.
October Silk
1980
6.0Group of crazy artists are invited to a party at a rich family's house, in the suburbs of a big city. Their presence changes the family's concepts about love and sex.
She's So Fine!
1985
NRJohn Holmes gives lesson in love the french way !
Johnny Does Paris
1981
5.0Two sisters have the family beach house for the summer. They advertise for fun-loving roommates. Watch as these beautiful young babes try to play grown up!
Summer Beach House
1980
5.8The film is shot as a documentary of a live burlesque show performed on stage, in which all scenes end in some sort of sex scene.
BurleXXX
1984
6.5The story, as the title suggests is about the loves of three young women, the youngest of whom has yet to learn the joy of lovemaking.
Three Daughters
1986
5.8Dana Dewars (Samantha Fox) is going through a nasty divorce from her husband. Her character and past are being questioned in order to deny her the lifestyle she claims to be hers. She tells her life story to her lawyer to convince him of her social standing, while the viewer watches it as it "really" was.
Tramp
1980
7.0The beautiful bombshell Merle Michaels takes us on a journey of her and some of her erotic friends' sexual exploits. Ms. Leonard's adventure details a day with her hairdresser and Robin Byrd plays a newly-wed who goes on a business trip with her husband.
Silky
1981
9.0For a good time there is only one number to call... Gloria Leonard's Phone Sex Fantasies! This hotline makes everyone's wildest fantasies come true. Magazine centerfolds come to life, a frustrated housewife finds relief in the form of her TV repairman, a virgin has his condition rectified, and more!
Phone Sex Fantasies
1985
8.0Jamie Hunt is a notorious lothario who's set out to break the world record by having sex with 15,000 women in just three years. Everything is going smoothly until a trio of delectable damsels move into his apartment building. His roommates John and Harry try to keep him focused on his goal, but Jamie's fallen head over heels for the delightful charms of Sandy. But just as Jamie's getting ready to seal the deal with the luscious lust bunny, Sandy catches a TV report about his sexual endeavors. She decides to get back at him in the best way she can think of -- by favoring someone else with her naturally delicious charms.
Bad Girls IV
1986
7.0A secretary is called into a business meeting to take down a dirty phone call and innocently becomes involved in a hot session.
Hot Wire
1985
8.0Platinum bombshell K.C. Valentine plays a real estate agent with an itch that only an orgy will satisfy.
Real Estate
1982
1970s · 23 titles
7.3Lovely and rich Rita has a habit of marrying wealthy men, only to divorce them when someone with a bigger bank account comes along, but not before clearing out her current husband's savings. With Rita ready for another round of nuptials, God and The Devil have decided to wager the fates of 2000 souls on whether she'll wed again for money or...love
Misbehavin'
1978
9.3Blonde and stunningly beautiful Rachelle, an ex-showgirl and woman of the world is married to a wealthy and lecherous Mr. Hugh. Mr. Hugh surrounds Rachelle with luxury and servants, yet starves her sexually! His latest decadent pleasure is watching beautiful young girls in the act of having sex.
Temptations
1976
5.5A mentally troubled man becomes a serial rapist and torturer due to the strong shock he suffers after witnessing the performance of an enema in a brothel.
Water Power
1976
7.0Dante, a real-life Times Square Magician in the 70s, offers the narration as Scratchit- otherwise known as Libido. Libido is the little voice inside your head that connives and drives your sexual impulses to the point that you will make the wrong choices in order to fulfill your sexual fantasies. The trick is living with Libido, and your choices, for the rest of your life.
Heat Wave
1977
10.0The plotline finds Cindy "frigid," so Dr. Gloria Leonard puts in a tape to thaw her out. The tape consists of Euro loops with a voice-over by a doctor with the worst German accent since Hogan's Heroes. These loops are the most depraved, kinky, slimy kind of Euro-trash sleaze that appealed to the Times Square crowd, which reveled in this type of stuff. The loops showcase sex acts so dirty and disgusting that you can almost catch the scent of unwashed pussy and manly body odor wafting off the screen. Of course, the frigid Cindy thaws out a little more with each act of perversion she watches.
Kinkorama
1976
6.2A self-described horny but faithful husband, disappointed by his wife's frigidity, tries to spice things up with the help of an adult home-movie system sold to him by the lovely Miss Azure and featuring the mysterious Channel 69.
Little Blue Box
1979
5.7After the farmer's daughters attack the farm hand Fred, three escaped convicts arrive and have their way with members of the family. Fred surprises the convicts, only to replace them in the family's victimization.
The Farmer's Daughters
1976
6.6Sexologist Dr. Seymour Love sets himself the challenge of transforming lowly streetwalker Misty Beethoven into the world's greatest lover.
The Opening of Misty Beethoven
1976
10.0An intimate glimpse into the major leagues of sex is the theme of this fast-paced, fast action sports film featuring a complete team of uninhibited, sex-starved babes who are as good in bed as they are out on the field.
N.Y. Babes
1979
7.0Alice is afraid that the visit from her cousin Matilda will rekindle their lust for each other. Matilda's young passion slowly spreads to Alice, her roommate, their boyfriends and girlfriend, the milkman and even the girlfriend's mother.
The Trouble with Young Stuff
1977
6.5Souperman dedicates himself to solving the city's sexual problems, but will he be able to stop the sex-negative supervillain Luther?
Souperman
1976
9.0Gloria Leonard showcases her personal and professional lives, from her early days as a ballet-school student, art dealer and stockbroker to her time as a porn actress and then to her 15-year stint as editor, writer and publisher of the adult magazine "High Society".
All About Gloria Leonard
1978
5.6The madame of a high-class New York brothel teaches her younger sister all about the business.
Maraschino Cherry
1978
5.2This is the story of Nancy, a young girl who is sexually repressed. When her boyfriend proposes, Nancy is delighted. She begins to have erotic dreams. Nancy is dreaming of her parents ...
Virgin Dreams
1976
5.3Three unrelated stories. The first is about a dissatisfied, hurtful couple clinging together to spite each other rather than take the risk of finding a relationship. The second story consists of a series of female clients at a psychologist's office that each tell their bitter and sad stories of how they developed their attitudes towards men or sex in general. The final story is a day in the life of a model that can't seem to get past posing for the men's magazine circuit, the daily abuse she deals with, her feelings of enslavement, and the impact upon her sanity.
Odyssey: The Ultimate Trip
1977
6.7Legend of Lady Blue is an erotic film about real people. Iris and Casey are childhood sweethearts from a small town in South Dakota. Their friend, Shelby, makes up the trio, who leaves with Casey to join the Marines. Meanwhile, Iris leaves for Hollywood to chase her dream. Busy pursuing her career, Iris breaks her engagement to Casey, and picks up with an impossible Hollywood agent-Gloria Diamond. Years later, Casey and Iris meet by chance. Their lives have changed drastically, and perhaps NOT for the best!!
The Legend of Lady Blue
1978
4.2Toni is a smart drug smuggler, living in a luxuriously home by the beach. The pot (ganja) producers pack it in crates, take it from Jamaica to a precise point of New England waters, and dump it in the sea. With no apparent connection with them, a couple of scuba-divers later retrieve the crates to their own boat, then take it in an old low-flying biplane to the continent. And then a third party will distribute to the consumers. The Narcotics Bureau has its informers, of course, but it seems the monthly Ganja Express can't be stopped. Eventually it will come ashore, in a mix of sex and violence, during an orgy at Toni's place.
The Ganja Express
1978
7.0Everyone hides a secret sexual desire, but most of us aren’t brave enough to actually satisfy these deepest longings. But Laura Farr is a different breed. Bored with her humdrum marriage, Laura decides to travel to France in order to expand her sexual horizons.
Extreme Close-Up
1979
7.0Candy Lips is the story of a young woman's search for sexual satisfaction, without guilt or fear. In her early years, Susan remembers her upsetting home life which she endured until she made her bid for freedom and went to college. Frustrated by her broken home, she tries to realign her sensitivity, only to be disrupted time and again by the "new morality" of her recent college atmosphere. It is sometime later that Susan meets Gloria; an artist both in her painting and lifestyle who introduces her to a new and healthy view of sex.
Candy Lips
1976
6.2Fiona, a rich, beautiful and successful model in New York City, is found shot to death, and her boyfriend becomes the prime suspect. The tough detective assigned to the case discovers that Fiona has kept a small book with information about all her friends and lovers.
Fiona on Fire
1978
6.3Vanessa lick’s her boyfriends ass and then fucks it with a dildo while she sucks his dick in one of her wettest and sleaziest films! Vanessa Del Rio is one of the biggest and best porn starlets of all time! And this is one of her best movies! This is a classic movie that will leave you reminiscing of the good old days!
Bizarre Moods
1976
9.0A French producer finds an American director to direct his raunchy XXX epic.
Hollywood Goes Hard
1978
6.8A young woman, Joy, refuses to have sex with her boyfriend. But after being raped, she becomes obsessed with sex and starts having intercourse indiscriminately.
Joy
1977
Series credits
Behind the camera
9.0Gloria Leonard showcases her personal and professional lives, from her early days as a ballet-school student, art dealer and stockbroker to her time as a porn actress and then to her 15-year stint as editor, writer and publisher of the adult magazine "High Society".
All About Gloria Leonard
1978
9.0Gloria Leonard showcases her personal and professional lives, from her early days as a ballet-school student, art dealer and stockbroker to her time as a porn actress and then to her 15-year stint as editor, writer and publisher of the adult magazine "High Society".
All About Gloria Leonard
1978
6.7The year is 1961, the city is New York, and the company is American Garter, the nation's premier lingerie manufacturer. Travel back in time as you plunge into the daily soap opera that makes American Garter more than just another underwear company - but an erotic institution!
American Garter
1993
5.7Media superstar Gloria Leonard takes us on a touchingly funny walk through the minds of two people who have been dating and are about to take the leap into bed. After that, a young artist’s recurring erotic dream leads her to an encounter with a mysterious man who helps her discover her long hidden and explosive passion.
Sensual Escape
1988
5.7Media superstar Gloria Leonard takes us on a touchingly funny walk through the minds of two people who have been dating and are about to take the leap into bed. After that, a young artist’s recurring erotic dream leads her to an encounter with a mysterious man who helps her discover her long hidden and explosive passion.
Sensual Escape
1988
8.5She used to be a wild girl until she met him, the "Perfect Catch". He was successful and Christian, what more would a woman want? She doesn't know. She is unhappy. Unfulfilled. The only person she can turn to is a friend who works at a homeless shelter. Then everything gets turns on its head when the shocking truth is realized. How will she handle it and will she keep her Vow of Passion.
Vow of Passion
1991
8.5She used to be a wild girl until she met him, the "Perfect Catch". He was successful and Christian, what more would a woman want? She doesn't know. She is unhappy. Unfulfilled. The only person she can turn to is a friend who works at a homeless shelter. Then everything gets turns on its head when the shocking truth is realized. How will she handle it and will she keep her Vow of Passion.
Vow of Passion
1991
7.0The film tells the story about a Tatoo on an intimate part on the body of a man and the meaning of life.
Two Hearts
1992
10.0Hyapatia Lee is a woman rediscovering the singles scene after separating from her husband of eight years.
Slow Dancing
1992
6.0A woman heads to Fire Island to recuperate after the death of her unfaithful husband.
Intimate Desires
1978


