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
- Another Day, Another Man as Meg (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Sin in the City
- Hot Nights on the Campus as Sally
1965
- Bad Girls Go to Hell as Meg Kelton / Ellen Green
- The Love Statue as The Statue
- Lust and the Flesh as Girl at Party
- The Beast That Killed Women as Girl in Bunk Bed #2, Bottom Bunk
- Nude Scrapbook
- The Art School for Nudists as Nudist at Volleyball Court
- International Smorgas-Broad
- Music to Strip By as Mary Ann
- Rent-a-Girl as Model at party
- The Sexploiters as Model Eating Ice Cream
- Naughty Nudes as Gigi
1964
- Crazy Wild and Crazy as Blonde with White Headband (uncredited)
- Body of a Female
- Honeymoon of Horror as (inserts)
- Nudes on Tiger Reef as Nudist
- White Slaves of Chinatown as Frenchy
- Nudes Inc. as Gigi (uncredited)
- Raw Weekend as Lee
- Artist Studio Secrets as Beverly (as Leonore Rheine)
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)