Rita Cadillac

Rita Cadillac

1936-05-18 – 1995-04-04 (age 58) Paris, France
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Biography

Rita Cadillac (born Nicole Yasterbelsky; 18 May 1936 – 4 April 1995) was a French dancer, singer, and actress.

Cadillac was born in Paris and started her music career as an accordionist under the alias "Rita Rella" at the age of 13. In 1952, she was a pin-up model and took the name "Rita Cadillac" (clearly as an allusion to her prominent breasts) at Crazy Horse where she began to work as an exotic dancer. She was also a dancer of Folies Bergère in the 1950s.

Cadillac appeared in many French films such as Soirs de Paris (1954), Porte océane (1958), La prostitution (1962), Un clair de lune à Maubeuge (1962), and Any Number Can Win (1963), becoming a renowned figure throughout Europe. In 1981, she appeared in the miniseries and film Das Boot, as the club singer Monique, in the town of La Rochelle.

She is the inspiration for Miss Rita Chevrolet, a recurring joke in the British satirical magazine Private Eye.

Source: Article "Rita Cadillac (French dancer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

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Known For

Das Boot
Das Boot

1981

as Monique

Any Number Can Win
Any Number Can Win

1963

as Liliane

Secret File 1413
Secret File 1413

1961

as Self

Until the Last One
Until the Last One

1957

as The circus stripper

The Unsatisfied
The Unsatisfied

1961

as Hilda

It Means That Much to Me
That Something... Else!
No Mercy for the Cellers
No Mercy for the Cellers

1955

as (uncredited)

Prostitution
Prostitution

1963

as Rita

Cadavres en vacances
Cadavres en vacances

1963

as Stella