Juliet Anderson

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Juliet Anderson (born July 23, 1938-died January 11, 2010) was a prolific porn star during the so-called "golden age" of porn mid-late 1970's to the mid 1980's. In 1998, at age 59 she directed Ageless Desire, a hardcore video featuring several over-50 real-life couples, including Anderson and her partner.

She is often referred to as Juliet "Aunt Peg" Anderson for a series of short films she did as the character Aunt Peg under the Swedish Erotica title.

Early life

Born Judith Carr Juliet was born and grew up in Burbank, CA, the daughter of a jazz trumpet player and an aspiring nurse. She was afflicted with both childhood arthritis and Crohn's disease and spent a sizable portion of her youth in the hospital or on bedrest. Graduating from Burbank High School in 1956 (where she was a straight-A student), she briefly attended Long Beach State College as an art major before relocating to Hayama, Japan, in 1961, with her then lover, a U.S. Navy sailor. A brief marriage to him did not work out, ending in 1964, and she spent the next thirteen years in various occupations, including clerical worker, teaching assistant in kindergarten and high school, and English as a Second Language teacher, and working as a radio journalist in Finland.

In 1963, while living in Miami, Anderson was secretary to a producer of "nudie" movies and a receptionist at the Burger King home office; she also worked for Avis during this period. In her website autobiography, she indicates that she appeared in an (unnamed) sexploitation film in 1963, portraying a police sergeant.

Career

Entering the adult movie business relatively late in life (at age 39), she quickly built a reputation as one of the premier performers in the so-called "Golden Age of Porn", appearing in over seventy films—often as "Aunt Peg", a role portrayed as a giddy, insatiable woman determined to enjoy life and sex to the maximum extent possible.[1] In 1987, she started a new career as a relationship counselor and massage therapist, before returning to adult entertainment in the mid-1990s.

Leaving and returning

In 1985, Anderson chose to leave the adult film business after signing over distribution rights for the film Educating Nina, a video she directed, produced and funded with money she raised from various donors, which featured the debut of future porn superstar Nina Hartley. She never received any income for the film, and all the investors' money was lost. Juliet moved to Placerville, CA, where she worked in a bed and breakfast, cleaned houses and did child care and elder care, continued to do some live stage shows, and opened a massage therapy office. Anderson chose to return to pornography in 1995, making new movies as an actress, producer and director.

In 1998, she directed and produced Ageless Desire, a hardcore porn video featuring several over-50 real-life couples, including Juliet and her partner at the time.[2] Numerous awards followed: Induction into the Erotic Legends Hall of Fame in 1996, an X-rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame Award in 1999, and a "Lifetime Achievement Actress Award" from the Free Speech Coalition in 2001. In 2007, Anderson received an honorary Doctor of the Arts degree from The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. She was featured in the 1998 documentary Wadd: The Life & Times of John C. Holmes.

Awards

Partial filmography

Title Released Company Director Starring Notes
Rockin' with Seka 1980 Caballero Home Video
Caballero Home Classics
Ziggy Ziggowitz, Jr. Seka, Desiree West, Aunt Peg, Brooke West, Liza Dwyer, Joan Thomas Feature
Educating Nina 1984 Atom Video Juliet Anderson Nina Hartley, Karen Summer, Lili Marlene, Juliet Anderson (Aunt Peg) Feature
Taboo 1980 Standard Video Kirdy Stevens Kay Parker, Dorothy LeMay, Brooke West, Aunt Peg, Holly McCall, Tawny Pearl, Lisa K. Loring, Sarah Harris, Miko Yani 1st in series
Feature
Taboo II 1982 Standard Video Kirdy Stevens Kay Parker Dorothy LeMay, Honey Wilder, Cara Lott, Aunt Peg, Linda Shaw, Terry Garko, Bambi, Brooke Bennett, Crystal Dawn 2nd in series
Feature

External links

References

  1. Taylor, Charles: "The Golden Age of Porn" from Salon.Com, 13 April 2002. Retrieved on 2009-11-08.
  2. Welcome to AuntPeg.com!
  3. 25th Annual AVN Awards Show. web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved on 2010-01-12.
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