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Wrong Credit! the Billy Boy gang rape victim is NOT Shirley Jaffe!


Not really sure how this false information got started, but once it was printed somewhere every site seems to quote it as fact now.

I was always curious about some of the actors and actresses (well, mostly the actresses!) who appeared in ACO and what else they may have done (in the UK obviously), and most of them have scant credits and even those are nearly impossible to find copies of.

Anyway, the actress credited as the victim of the early rape on the derelict stage at the beginning of the film (the "Thieving Magpie" sequence) has always been mentioned as being Shirley Jaffe. Checking her credits, I found out that she appeared in a Hammer Dracula film, "Taste The Blood of Dracula" from 1969. I just happened to have that film on dvd, too, so I dug out my copy and took another look at it to spot her in the film. Well, she plays a maid in that film, and appears in a scene where you can get a close look at her face....

And she is not the girl in the rape sequence from ACO.

Shirley Jaffe DOES appear in ACO, just not in the infamous scene she's always been credited for. She plays a Nurse in the film. After doing a little more digging, I found a website that actually has close-ups of her in both films that proves she has been given the wrong credit many times in ACO. Check it out:

http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=37017


Now this raises another question, the mystery of who actually IS the actress in that early rape sequence?








"Some men just like to watch the world burn!"

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*bump*ing this.

Even though I've submitted a credit correction twice to IMDB and they've done nothing, I'm hoping some day it will be corrected.



"Phase One...in which Doris gets her oats!"

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Cheryl Grunwald is credited as the rape victim in the Ludovico film that Alex watches...

From the scant pictures I've been able to find of CG on the internet (not from ACO), I can't say for certain whether that's her or not in the first rape sequence, but I don't think so. The first rape victim has more rounded face than Cheryl's, whose features are a bit more angular.

The only thing I'm definitely certain of is that the first girl in the attempted rape scene by Billyboy's droogs is NOT Shirely Jaffe.

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Well okay then.

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And the search continues. One thing's for sure. Man's quest to learn the identity of a hot woman is never-ending, no matter how old the source footage may be.

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OMG! A blast from the past!

😎

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Whoever she was, she was incredibly awesome indeed.

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