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Template:Female adult bio Kitten Natividad (born Francesca Isabel Natividad on February 14, 1948) is a Mexican American film actress and exotic dancer, noted for her 44-inch chest and appearances in cult films by her ex-partner, director Russ Meyer. Natividad was also named Miss Nude Universe of 1970 and 1971.[citation needed]

Life and career

Natividad was born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the eldest of nine children, and did not speak English until she was 10. At that time her mother married a U.S. citizen and they moved to Texas.[1] Natividad attended high school in El Paso, where she was her senior class president.[2] After moving to California, she worked as a maid and cook for Stella Stevens and as a key punch operator for IBM before turning to go-go dancing to make ends meet. Her stage name Kitten came from her shyness.[3] At age 21, she had her first breast implant surgery in Tijuana, where it was legal, in order to move into topless dancing. The silicone used was an industrial variety, which may have led to her later cancer.[1]

Natividad was introduced to Meyer by fellow dancer Shari Eubank, a performer in Meyer's 1975 film Supervixens.[4] Meyer hired her as the narrator of his movie Up!, where she was shown sitting nude in a tree,[3] quoting the poetry of Hilda Doolittle and acting as a Greek chorus to the nonsensical action.[5] Meyer was so impressed he wanted her to star in his next feature, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (one of several collaborations between Meyer and film critic Roger Ebert), but he paid for a second breast enhancement[1] and voice lessons to eliminate her accent.[3] She left her husband for Meyer during the filming, and they lived together as a couple for most of the next 15 years.[1]

After this, Natividad moved into pornographic modeling, mainly doing glamour or girl-girl shoots with the likes of Candy Samples, Uschi Digard, and Patty Plenty.[3] The appearances increased her dancing income many times over. She incorporated a giant champagne glass into her act (similarly to Lili St. Cyr[1]), accompanied by Bobby Darin hit "Splish Spash".[3]

In 1970-1980s she took part in some short-footage "sexy wrestling" films, mainly with companies like Curtis Dupont and Triumph Studios. During the 1980s, Natividad began appearing in hardcore productions, initially limiting her performances to appearing topless, but eventually doing hardcore performances, usually with younger men. She also founded the private photo and video studio Kitten Klub. She famously appeared as a stripper at the bachelor party held by Sean Penn to celebrate his 1985 marriage to Madonna.[1]

In October, 1999, Natividad underwent double-mastectomy surgery for treatment of breast cancer. She currently lives alone with a pit bull and three cats (all featured in the 2005 documentary movie Pornstar Pets), and supports herself with sales of her porn videos and phone sex, with an international clientele.[1] She appeared in the Adam Rifkin independent feature A Night at the Golden Eagle.

Natividad is sometimes credited as Francesca 'Kitten' Natividad, Francesca Natividad or Frances Natividad.

Filmography

Kitten Natividad has appeared in more than sixty-five films and video productions. Career highlights and major studio features include:

Trivia

  • Appeared in a 1980s music video for Mitch Ryder's version of the song, "When You Were Mine", which was written by Prince.
  • Natividad had a noteworthy brief topless scene in the movie My Tutor, (with Caren Kaye) where a young man passes out at the sight of her bosom.
  • In August 2006 she appeared in Playboy in the History of Bikinis (page 72)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Jessica Berens (July 22 2001). "Return of the Ultravixens!". The Observer. Retrieved 2007-02-08. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ^ Chris Beyond (August 2002). "the no-fi "interview" with Kitten Natividad". No-Fi Magazine. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Kitten Natividad bio". Photoclub.com. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
  4. ^ "Shari Eubank". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
  5. ^ Roger Ebert (April 1, 2005). "Breast in show". Retrieved 2007-02-08.
  6. ^ a b Luke Ford. "Kitten Natividad". lukeford.net. Retrieved 2007-02-08.
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