Janet Banzet also credited as Marie Brent and several other names, was a Texas born actress who appeared in several sexploitation

Sexploitation

Sexploitation, or "sex-exploitation", describes a class of independently produced, low-budget feature films generally associated with the 1960s and serving largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films...

 films of the late 1960s and early 1970s She starred in several provocatively titled films directed by Michael Findlay

Michael Findlay

Michael Findlay, along with his wife Roberta Findlay, directed and produced numerous sexploitation movies. They have been described as "the most notorious filmmakers in the annals of sexploitation"....

 and Joseph W. Sarno

Joseph W. Sarno

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. In 1970 she was in The Party at Kitty and Stud's better known under the title Italian Stallion which is Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Stallone

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's first film.

Death

Banzet died July 29, 1971 in New York City, New York. She is buried in Oakdale Memorial Park in Glendora, California

Glendora, California

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 in Los Angeles County.

Filmography

• Only You Know, And I Know (1971)
• Is There Sex After Death? (1971)
• Interplay (1970)
• The Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970)
• Sexual Understanding (1970)
• The Amazing Transplant (1970)
• Tuck Me In (1970)
• The Filth Shop (1969)
• The Corporate Queen (1969)
• All Women Are Bad (1969)
• The Ultimate Degenerate (1969)
• Smoke and Flesh (1968)
• A Thousand Pleasures (1968)
• Cargo of Love (1968)
• Come Play with Me (1968)
• Private Relations (1968)
• Sugar Daddy (1968)
• The Kiss of Her Flesh (1968)
• Two Girls for a Madman (1968)
• Cool It, Baby (1967)
• To Turn a Trick (1967)
• Professor Lust (1967)
• Teach Me How to Do It! (1967)
• Miniskirt Love (1967)
• Venus in Furs (1967)
• Death of a Nymphette (1967)
• Anything for Money (1967)
• The Sex Cycle (1967)
• Diary of a Swinger (1967)
• Julie Is No Angel (1967)
• Lusting Hours (1967)
• Playpen Girls (1967)
• Teenage Gang Debs (1966)
• Skin Deep in Love (1966)
• The Beast That Killed Women (1965)
• Lilith
  Lilith (film)
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  (1964)
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

External links

• Janet Banzet's grave http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=banzet&GSfn=jeanette&GSiman=1&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=in&GSdyrel=in&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=60505983&df=all& at findagrave.com
• Janet Banzet http://www.somethingweird.com/cart.php?target=search&substring=janet+banzet&x=0&y=0 at Something Weird Video
• Janet Banzet http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/303166 at BFI as Patrice Barnett