Rebecca Brooke

Acting

Rebecca Brooke

Born 1952-02-21 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Mary Mendum was born on February 21, 1952. She grew up in a poor family outside of Chicago. She began her acting career in the early '70s in stage productions of her then boyfriend Michael Butler such as "Hair" and "Lenny". Mendum started appearing in movies with small parts in adult pictures for director Chuck Vincent and posed for nude layouts in a few prominent men's magazines. She achieved her greatest enduring cult cinema popularity with her outstanding portrayal of Anne in Radley Metzger's movie The Image (1975). Mary excelled in starring roles as often frustrated characters in several excellent Joseph W. Sarno softcore gems in the mid-1970s like Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974), Laura's Toys (1975) and Abigail Lesley Is Back in Town (1975). She further demonstrated her remarkable range and talent as an actress with her delightful comic turn as both meek and repressed chemist Dr. Shirley Jekyll and her more uninhibited and sexually aggressive alter ego Sherry Hyde in the amusing tongue-in-cheek romp The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego (1974). Outside of acting, Mary was a gifted cook and seamstress. Alas, Mary Mendum called it a day as an actress in 1977. On July 17, 2012, she died in Boca Raton, FL, of an accidental drowning due to a fall.

Acting credits

Mrs. Barrington poster
3.8

Mrs. Barrington (the character) can't seem to keep her rich husbands alive. They always die off, with her help, leaving her with loads of money. After all, a girl's got to make a living.

Mrs. Barrington

1974

Confessions of a Young American Housewife poster
5.8

An attractive but conservative mid-30's housewife stays at the house of her sexually open daughter and soon becomes involved in her daughter's swinger lifestyle.

Confessions of a Young American Housewife

1974

Laura's Toys poster
5.2

Archaeologist Walter and his wife Laura are working at a dig on a small island off the coast of Sweden. One day Laura catches Walter having a go at it with his sexy assistant, Anna. Laura calls in her old friend--and former lesbian lover--Hanni to help get her revenge on Walter by having she and Hanni seduce Anna.

Laura's Toys

1975

Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town poster
5.6

Abigail Leslie has been away for years but has now returned to the small town of Baypoint, where her sexual appetite made her infamous. Abigail is a woman who is serious about her carnal pursuits, and upon her return she immediately re-establishes her pursuit of the flesh of a lonely tomboy who has a longing for her brother, a repressed housewife who harbors a hidden love of the ladies, and a troubled husband and wife, Abigail having seduced the husband prior to her departure years earlier.

Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town

1975

The Groove Tube poster
5.0

Television programming takes it on the chin in this ribald spoof of the networks.

The Groove Tube

1974

The Night They Robbed Big Bertha's poster
9.0

Big Bertha is the popular, full-figured owner of the community's most successful whorehouse and moonshine racketeering enterprise. Some guys decide to rob Big Bertha’s stash of money, but the local cops just happen to coincidentally be "visiting" the joint. With her money missing, Big Bertha announces the closure of her whorehouse, but nobody in town will let that happen!

The Night They Robbed Big Bertha's

1975

Misty poster
4.9

Misty arrives in a small town to look for her mother who abandoned her 22 years ago. She stays with a bisexual artist and her friends and models for her. Meanwhile, a Christian woman with a secret tries to save her perverted niece.

Misty

1976

The Blazer Girls poster
3.9

A group of private-school seniors want to raise money to buy a new bell for their school, so they hit on the idea of putting themselves on the market.

The Blazer Girls

1975

The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego poster
4.8

A shy, withdrawn female scientist invents a formula that turns her into a horny, oversexed nymphomaniac.

The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego

1974

Cherry Hill High poster
3.0

Five recent graduates of an all-girl high school - Kippy, Sarah, Michelle, Peaches and Alison - attempt to lose their virginity during a two-week bicycle trip with their seemingly repressed teacher Miss Woodruff. The girls hold a contest to see who can lose their virginity in the most creative and original manner.

Cherry Hill High

1977

Little Girl, Big Tease poster
4.1

A 16 year-old society girl is kidnapped and exploited by a group of people including one of her high school teachers. One by one Virginia seduces her captors and is able to gain the upper hand.

Little Girl, Big Tease

1976

Happily Ever After poster
NR

A woman takes revenge on the three college men who abused her a decade earlier.

Happily Ever After

1974

Overdose poster
NR

Hot concentration of violence, mutilation and lust.

Overdose

2021

The Image poster
6.7

Jean discovers that Anne cannot get enough of being humiliated by her mistress, Claire. Gentleman that he is, he decides to partake in the activities. Ultimately, Claire surrenders to him as well.

The Image

1975

Grace's Place poster
7.8

A bored housewife becomes a stripper as a hobby. This leads her into prostitution and before long, she wants out of it.

Grace's Place

1973

Felicia poster
4.5

Paul and Gabrielle, a young married couple, take in their neighbor's teenage daughter, Felicia, for a few weeks in the summer. It isn't long before the precocious and seductive Felicia sets her sights on the two of them.

Felicia

1975

Bang Bang You Got It! poster
10.0

A collection of sketches parodying various porn and TV tropes. Occasionally, between the segments, one of the performers will talk about his or her sexual fantasy in a more serious and straightforward way.

Bang Bang You Got It!

1976