Rita Cadillac
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Any Number Can Win
as Liliane 1963
That Something... Else!
as Singer 1963
The Unsatisfied
as Hilda 1961
Until the Last One
as The circus stripper 1957
It Means That Much to Me
as Mercedes 1961
Prostitution
as Rita 1963
Secret File 1413
as Self 1961
Cadavres en vacances
as Stella 1963
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
as self 2019
No Mercy for the Cellers
as (uncredited) 1955
Cent ans de Folies Bergère
as Self 1971