Laura Gemser... or Moira Chen?
Frog
(http://members.tripod.com/~EuroFan/BT2index.html), Blood Times
Video's Louis Paul <blo...@aol.com> asked him the following
question: "The Emanuelle films, I guess because the first one was so
successful, you decided to make yours...How did you meet Laura
Gemser, whose real name is Moira Chen?" Similarly, in a review of
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
(http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-83238/violent/frames/f_atamo.html),
Violent Vision's Christer Persson <pap...@swipnet.se> claims that
Gemser is "Moira Chen to her mom;" he told me a few days ago that
he read that "Moira Chen" was Gemser's birth name "in several other
magazines and fanzines." I have also seen a couple of webpages
devoted to pseudonyms of Eurohorror stars that echo this claim.
I understand that in her extensive interview with Manlio Gomarasca
that appears in Nocturno Cinema's book Io Emanuelle - Le passioni,
gli amori e il cinema di Laura Gemser, Gemser told Gomarasca that
"Moira Chen" was a pseudonym of hers that she was pressured by
director Hall Bartlett into adopting for the 1983 American made-for-
TV movie Love Is Forever (a.k.a. Comeback and Passion & Valor),
in order to minimize recognition of her as being the star of a
number of pornographic films (most notably, the "Black Emanuelle"
series). Admittedly, however, I haven't read this interview myself.
Does anyone in alt.horror know if "Moira Chen" is Gemser's real
name, or was her birth name?
BTW, in a post a few weeks ago, I made a reference to "Moira
Chen (a.k.a. Laura Gemser);" this should have read "Laura Gemser
(a.k.a. Moira Chen)." I'm inclined to believe that "Moira Chen" is
a pseudonym of Gemser's. This accidental reversal by me is
actually what has prompted me to ask the question above.
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bruce h
>name, or was her birth name?
it's not. it was a psuedonym she used in a movie and it got all kinds of blown
outta proportion.
bruce h
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CFVimports
writes:
>Gemser told Gomarasca that
"Moira Chen" was a pseudonym of hers that she was pressured by director Hall
Bartlett into adopting for the 1983 American made-for-TV movie Love Is Forever
(a.k.a. Comeback and Passion & Valor), in order to minimize recognition of her
as being the star of a number of pornographic films (most notably, the "Black
Emanuelle">
This is what she told me also when I spoke to her in 1998 trying to get her to
join D'Amato at the Chiller Theatre Con. She is originally from Indonesia and
claims her first language is Dutch. I stand to believe her real name to be
Gemser. Although her middle initial is M. she never said what it stands for,
Lauretta M Gemser.
Phil Palmieri
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Secret Squirrel
that Laura Gemser had Dutch patrilineal ancestors, as Java was
once controlled by the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie -
i.e., the Netherlands-based United East India Company). On the
other hand, Indonesia has for some time had a prosperous Chinese
minority, so it's also quite plausible that Gemser had Chinese
patrilineal ancestors, and "Chen" primarily is a Chinese
surname....
According to Blood Times Video's Louis Paul <blo...@aol.com>,
Adalberto Albertini told him in an interview that Gemser was
modeling under the name "Moira Chen" when he first met her, so
if this was a pseudonym of hers, it apparently was one that she
used long before 1983. I'm merely playing the devil's advocate,
though; I agree with the two of you that "Moira Chen" was a
pseudonym of Gemser's.
On 25 Feb 2000 18:20:50 GMT,
cfvim...@aol.comFUCKSPAM (CFVimports) wrote:
>From: Frog FrogRe...@free.fr
>writes:
>>Gemser told Gomarasca that "Moira Chen" was a pseudonym of
>hers that she was pressured by director Hall Bartlett into
>adopting for the 1983 American made-for-TV movie Love Is Forever
>(a.k.a. Comeback and Passion & Valor), in order to minimize
>recognition of her as being the star of a number of pornographic
>films (most notably, the "Black Emanuelle">
>
>
>This is what she told me also when I spoke to her in 1998 trying
>to get her to join D'Amato at the Chiller Theatre Con. She is
>originally from Indonesia and claims her first language is Dutch.
>I stand to believe her real name to be Gemser. Although her
>middle initial is M. she never said what it stands for, Lauretta
>M Gemser.
>
>Phil Palmieri
>Creature Feature Video
AND
On 25 Feb 2000 14:46:38 GMT,
DARGENTO
is one of her aliases. take it for what its worth.
Anonymous
Jennifer Estopinal
see!
Haven't seen an 'Emanuelle' flick in a long time.
Jennifer
Secret Squirrel <squi...@echelon.alias.net> wrote in message
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CFVimports
writes:
>Now I'm wondering what she has done lately. >>
Laura has been out of the film industry since the early 90's. She's engaged to
a doctor now who, from what I've been told, isn't too fond of her past film
career. I spoke to him personally back before D'Amato died. He seemed like a
nice chap. But who knows?
Phil Palmieri
Creature Feature Video