Marilyn Joi

Acting

Marilyn Joi

Born 1945-05-22 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Marilyn Joi is an American actress who appeared in a number of exploitation films during the 1970s. She starred in several films by Al Adamson and played the henchwoman Velvet in Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks. Her most famous role is Cleopatra Schwartz in Kentucky Fried Movie.

Acting credits

The Great American Girl Robbery poster
4.2

A busload containing three cheerleading teams from three different schools who are heading to compete against each other is hijacked by terrorists and the girls are kidnapped.

The Great American Girl Robbery

1979

The Kentucky Fried Movie poster
6.2

A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.

The Kentucky Fried Movie

1977

The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington poster
3.8

The world's most famous madame is called to Washington to testify before Congress.

The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington

1977

Coffy poster
6.6

After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.

Coffy

1973

Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks poster
4.8

Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves.

Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks

1976

Galaxina poster
3.9

Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation for decades, Galaxina finds herself alone for many years, developing emotions and falling in love with the ship's pilot, Thor.

Galaxina

1980

Wonder Women poster
4.7

Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, all-girl army of martial-arts experts, Tsu kidnaps some of the world's greatest athletes. She is able to transplant any body part, so she uses the athletes for spare parts to sell to the world's richest men. Mike Harber is a womanizing, wise-cracking insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London sent to Manila to investigate the disappearance of a jai-alai player, and becomes involved with Dr. Tsu's mad mission.

Wonder Women

1973

Mansion of the Doomed poster
6.2

An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused.

Mansion of the Doomed

1976

The Naughty Stewardesses poster
4.1

A free-spirited Kansas City woman lands a job as a flight attendant and moves in with three worldly stewardesses in Los Angeles, but things get complicated when a wealthy elderly land developer saves the life of one of their passengers.

The Naughty Stewardesses

1973

Uncle Tom's Cabin poster
5.7

A sadistic plantation owner pushes his slaves to the point of rebellion.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1976

Detroit 9000 poster
5.5

After a fundraiser for a Black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one Black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.

Detroit 9000

1973

Nurse Sherri poster
4.5

A hospital nurse is possessed by an evil spirit, and proceeds to kill off the hospital's patients.

Nurse Sherri

1978

Satan's Princess poster
3.5

A down-on-his-luck cop runs into harder times when he is searching for a missing woman

Satan's Princess

1989

C.O.D. poster
3.4

Albert Zack is a struggling, bumbling, advertising salesman hired to save the Beaver Bra Company from impending doom. He is charged with signing five specific, world-famous, busty woman as endorsers for the bra line. Silly antics and situations occur as he tries, mostly in various costumes, to get close enough to these women to make his pitch for their signature. Working against him are two board members who stand to gain if the company fails. As he circles the globe in search of these signatures, he is faced with a variety of challenges, one of which is a relationship with his own secretary.

C.O.D.

1981

Hammer poster
5.4

Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.

Hammer

1972

The Student Teachers poster
5.8

Sexy student teachers at Valley High School give private lessons while being terrorized by a mad rapist

The Student Teachers

1973

Black Samson poster
5.0

Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.

Black Samson

1974

Hit Man poster
5.4

Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a crime kingpin’s sprawling pleasure dome, from corner hangouts to a wildlife preserve, Tyrone covers a lot of real estate, busts a lot of heads.

Hit Man

1972

Queen of Lost Island poster
NR

Topless model Julie (Julie Strain) becomes possessed by a demon and lures other models to a remote island, where she goes after them with a samurai sword. Filmed in 1994 as "Queen of Lost Island," and screened briefly under that title, this didn't receive a home video release until 2007 when it popped up on DVD as "Elixir." Most online sources claim this is the same film as "The Devil's Pet," but that is incorrect.

Queen of Lost Island

1994

Black Samurai poster
5.6

When the daughter of the royal family is held hostage, an agent for "D.R.A.G.O.N." will stop at nothing to destroy the evil organisation which abducted her.

Black Samurai

1976

Tender Loving Care poster
4.8

Three talented nurses share an apartment and work at a large hospital. Together they face a world of part-time lovers, sadistic doctors, sexy patients and more!

Tender Loving Care

1974

Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson poster
6.8

Brought to life through archival material and the reflections of over 40 colleagues, friends and fans, BLOOD & FLESH is much more than the story of a moviemaking life most unusual. It beautifully captures the worlds of outsider filmmaker communities that existed in California in the ’70s, and the weird ways they intersected with Hollywood mainstream and union indies. On Adamson shoots, regular Orson Welles crew and cinematographers like Gary Graver, Vilmos Szigmond and Lazlo Kovaks worked alongside Bud Cardos — and at one point, Charles Manson! Director David Gregory (founder of Severin Films, director of LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY’S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU) spent years making this film, speaking to everyone down to the cops who investigated Adamson’s murder, vividly encapsulating both a bold life and tragic demise, with alien conspiracies, go-go dancers and Colonel Sanders coming in along the way. If you’ve got even a passing interest in cinema, you want to see this

Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson

2019

Mean Mother poster
3.4

Two Vietnam deserters go their separate ways, become criminals and are eventually reunited.

Mean Mother

1974

Blazing Stewardesses poster
3.3

Those "naughty stewardesses" are at it again! But this time they’ve turned in their Mile High Club sky miles for a sexy, rousing, Old West-styled adventure on a dude ranch. Punchin’ cattle and breakin’ stallions are the last things on their minds as these lovely ladies earn their wings in a whole new way…blazing a trail straight to the bedroom.

Blazing Stewardesses

1975