Gigi Darlene
Born: 1943-03-04 in Berlin, Germany
Died: 2002-01-01
Known For: Acting
Biography
Born Heli (pronounced ‘Hee-lee’) Weinreich in Berlin, Germany, Gigi Darlene immigrated to Queens as a teenager to live with family friends. Blonde, beautiful and voluptuous, she quickly found work as a print model but found even more steady work as an exotic dancer and nude model in men's magazines (often using the alias Lenore Rheine). Believing Americans were too prudish and uptight about nudity and sex, Heli had no issue supporting herself by taking off her clothes. While working the dance circuit, she met and befriended actress Darlene Bennett and transitioned into films herself. After a few years working for the likes of Barry Mahon and Doris Wishman, Gigi gave up her film career after meeting her future husband, hypnotist Charles Lamont. The two toured the U.S. doing a popular show for years, eventually settling in Las Vegas and then Florida. After Charles died, Gigi worked as a real estate agent and an extra on films shot in Southern Florida.
Filmography
2023
- Atomic Gorilla as Nudist [Archive}
2000
- Nudes, Nudists & Nudism: Volume 4 as Nudist (archive footage)
1967
- File X for Sex: The Story of the Perverted as Nymphomaniac
1966
- Hot Nights on the Campus as Sally
- Sin in the City
- Another Day, Another Man as Meg (archive footage) (uncredited)
1965
- Nude Scrapbook
- The Beast That Killed Women as Girl in Bunk Bed #2, Bottom Bunk
- The Art School for Nudists as Nudist at Volleyball Court
- Naughty Nudes as Gigi
- International Smorgas-Broad
- Rent-a-Girl as Model at party
- Bad Girls Go to Hell as Meg Kelton / Ellen Green
- Music to Strip By as Mary Ann
- The Sexploiters as Model Eating Ice Cream
- Lust and the Flesh as Girl at Party
- The Love Statue as The Statue
1964
- Raw Weekend as Lee
- Body of a Female
- Artist Studio Secrets as Beverly (as Leonore Rheine)
- Nudes on Tiger Reef as Nudist
- Honeymoon of Horror as (inserts)
- Crazy Wild and Crazy as Blonde with White Headband (uncredited)
- Nudes Inc. as Gigi (uncredited)
- White Slaves of Chinatown as Frenchy
1963
- She Should Have Stayed in Bed as Blonde Reading Novel
- 1,000 Shapes of a Female
- 50,000 B.C. (Before Clothing) as Zelda (as Hedi Lenore)
1961
- The Unsatisfied as Model - U.S. Inserts (uncredited)