Washington [US]: Francesca ‘Kitten’ Natividad, a cross-cross dancer who rose to reputation after Russ Meyer cast her in the slasher film ‘Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens,’ exceeded away on Saturday at the age of 74 on the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles from kidney failure after combating cancer.
“She adored her buddies, cats, family and fanatics,” her sister Eva wrote in a declaration on Facebook published with the aid of a chum of Kitten Natividad, Siouxzan Perry. According to Variety, Natividad, raised in Texas after relocating from her native Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, rose to the location of class president at her high faculty in El Paso. After relocating to California, she labored as Stella Stevens’ maid and cook before converting her name to “Kitten” and turning into a cross-go dancer. She became brought to the director of “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!” by a dancer acquaintance, and he engaged her to relate his 1976 sex comedy “Up.” When Meyer paid for a 2d operation to present her the outsized dimensions that could come to be her calling card, she had previously undergone breast implant surgical procedure in Tijuana.
In the satirical sex farce “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens,” co-written by using Meyer and film critic Roger Ebert, Natividad plays a housewife who subjects her husband, a teenage boy, a truck driving force, and a nurse to numerous sexual acts, even as also inflicting them on them.
Meyer and Natividad had never been married; however, they shared a home for approximately 15 years. She persevered to make appearances on tv and in mainstream movies for the duration of the relaxation of her profession, which became, in general devoted to burlesque performances, nude modeling, and appearing in pornographic movies.
Natividad appeared in small roles in films like ‘My Tutor,’ ‘Airplane II,’ ‘The Wild Life,’ ‘Another 48 Hours,’ ‘The Double-D Avenger,’ wherein she co-starred with two different former Meyer actors, and Adam Rifkin’s ‘A Night at the Golden Eagle.’ She also seemed as a visitor on ‘The Dating Game’ and ‘The Gong Show.’
The night earlier than his brother Sean Penn married Madonna, she was recruited by way of Chris Penn, who had acted in “The Wild Life,” to perform as a distinctive dancer, and she or he also made a look in a Peaches song video.
In 1999, Natividad underwent a mastectomy after receiving a breast most cancers prognosis.
She is survived by means of her sister Eva, her mom, four nephews and a niece.
