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While it has been popularly believed that she was either of Italian or Argentinian heritage, according to the Internet Movie Database, Roberta`s parents were Latvian refugees. The ‘Italian/Argentinean’ rumors originate from the fact that she plays a foreign character in the film Delinquent Schoolgirls, and misinformation deliberately put out by two photographers who wished to dissociate themselves from her. Roberta is said to have based the voice of her Delinquent Schoolgirls character on her mother, with whom she did not get along.
Roberta’s mother regarded her early developing daughter as a “freak” due to her large breasts, and thought she should be ashamed of her body. Parodying her mother’s voice in Delinquent Schoolgirls was Roberta’s revenge. According to people who met her, Roberta spoke with a normal American accent, in addition she was also fluent in Portuguese. |
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Trivia and QuotesTrivia Roberta Pedon died in the summer of 1982, in Oakland, California. She invariably dressed (and then undressed) as a hippie during most of her photo shoots. Her popularity was, however, rather short-lived; in September 1975 she was imprisoned in San Francisco for drug and prostitution offences. Upon her release she was ostracized by many of her previous employers, including the AAE people behind the Delinquent Schoolgirls film. Homeless and with drugs and her lifelong struggle against bulimia taking its toll, her last photo shoot took place in 1976. Although Roberta was "discovered" in the USA, she appeared for the first time in a Danish pornographic magazine. Roberta’s relationships with men were of a brief and turbulent nature, following repeat patterns of Roberta seeking deep emotional attachment with men who merely used and discarded her. She claimed to have had affairs with an actor from the film Planet of the Apes, and a faded television star who was to later die in mysterious circumstances in 1978. While few of her relationships lasted more than a couple of months, she did enjoy a longer one with the writer Gustav Hasford, author of “The Short Timers” later to be the inspiration for the film Full Metal Jacket. Roberta’s appearance in Delinquent Schoolgirls was due to several people who were involved in the production also being behind a Los Angeles company that specialized in cheesecake magazine shoots and loops, giving the filmmakers the opportunity to use bust models like Roberta and Nika Movenka as actresses. After appearing in Delinquent Schoolgirls, Roberta caught the acting bug and auditioned for a part in a Jan-Michael Vincent film, personal problems and poor management however meant she would only ever be a one film wonder. Roberta`s birth name was Rosma Grantoviskis. However, she went by the stage names of Roberta Pedon, Melody O`Hare and Roberta Weaver. The nom-de-plume Melody O`Hare supposedly came from the name of one of her best friends in Junior High. | ||
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