Michelle Bauer

Michelle Bauer
Michelle Bauer
Born	October 1, 1958 (age 66); Montebello, California, U.S.
Other names	Kim Bittner; Michelle McClellan; Pia Snow;
Occupations	Actress; model;
Years active	1981–present
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Michelle Bauer (born October 1, 1958) is an American actress, model, and B movie scream queen.

Early life

Bauer was born and raised in Simi Valley, California.^[1] She is of Mexican heritage on her mother's side and Czechoslovakian heritage on her father's side.

Career

Bauer was Penthouse magazine's Pet of the Month for July 1981^[2]^[1] and also appeared in many other adult magazines during the early to mid 1980s, under a number of different names.

Bauer starred in the pornographic film Café Flesh (1982) under the name of Pia Snow.^[3]^[2] She states that she was happy to appear in the film and on the covers of other films with an X rating, but insisted on a double for the sex scenes. Bauer appeared in several other pornographic titles under her Pia Snow moniker, including Bad Girls (1981), Nightdreams (1981), and others.

Bauer's Penthouse centerfold appearance led to acting for the Playboy Channel and a film try-out for director Fred Olen Ray. Ray liked her audition, and offered her the part if she would be willing to dye her hair black. Her first B movie was The Tomb (1986),^[1] it would be the first of many. Along with Linnea Quigley and Brinke Stevens, Bauer became one of the most prominent B movie scream queens in the late 1980s.^[4]^[5]^[6] In addition to multiple films for Ray, she has worked with cult directors David DeCoteau, Jesús Franco and Zalman King and shared the screen with genre stars such as Sybil Danning, Monique Gabrielle, Julie Strain, Lina Romay, George Kennedy, David Carradine, Gunnar Hansen, Paul Naschy and Erik Estrada.

Her life and career are one of the main subjects of the 2011 documentary Screaming in High Heels: The Rise and Fall of the Scream Queen Era by director Jason Paul Collum. She returned for the 2020 follow-up Screaming in High Heels: The Reunion which again reunited her with Quigley and Stevens.

Personal life

Bauer retained her married name as a screen name. After she and her husband divorced, he filed a lawsuit requesting she not use it for her films. She tried appearing as Michelle McClellan, using the name of her second husband, in Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), but the press resisted, so she returned to Bauer, which the first husband eventually accepted.^[7]

Selected filmography

1981 Bad Girls as Angie (credited as Pia Snow)
1981 Nightdreams as Chained Girl (uncredited)
1982 Café Flesh as Lana (credited as Pia Snow)
1982 Homework as Dream Groupie (uncredited)
1984 Special Request as Jan (credited as Kim Bittner)
1985 Terror on Tape as Third Customer
1985 Tied & Tickled as Janet (credited as Pia Snow)
1985 Tomboy as Woman In Corvette (uncredited)
1985 Cavegirl as Locker Room Student
1986 Beverly Hills Girls as Michelle Scott
1986 Reform School Girls as Shower Girl (uncredited)
1986 The Tomb as Nefratis
1987 Lust for Freedom as Jackie
1987 Night of the Living Babes as Sue (credited as Michelle McClellan)
1988 Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers as Mercedes (credited as Michelle McLellan)
1988 Demonwarp as Betsy
1988 Nightmare Sisters as Mickey (credited as Michelle McClellan)
1988 Death Row Diner as Julia Wilcox-Weston
1988 Lady Avenger as Annalee (credited as Michelle McClellan)
1988 Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama as Lisa (credited as Michelle McClellen)
1989 Terror Night as Jo
1989 Beverly Hills Vamp as Kristina
1989 Dr. Alien as Coed #1
1989 Assault of the Party Nerds as Muffin (credited as Michelle McClellan)
1989 The Phantom Empire as
1989 The Jigsaw Murders as Cindy Jakulski
1991 Virgin High as Miss Bush
1991 Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge as Lili
1991 Camp Fear as Dorm Girl
1992 Evil Toons as Mrs. Burt
1993 Naked Instinct as Michelle
1994 Dinosaur Island as June
1995 Red Lips as Lisa
1995 Bikini Drive-In as Dyanne Lynn
1995 Vampire Vixens from Venus as Shampay
1995 Assault of the Party Nerds Part 2: Heavy Petting Detective as Muffin
1995 Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold as Dr. Joyce Mann
1995 Witch Academy as Tara
1998 Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula in 8 Legs to Love You as Sheriff Marga
1998 Lust for Frankenstein as Goddess / The Creature
2000 Blood and Honor as Maude Stuart
2004 Tomb of the Werewolf as Elizabeth Bathory
2005 The Naked Monster as Second Mom
2006 The Bikini Escort Company as Miss Howell
2008 Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust as Polly Bunderhoof
2008 Voodoo Dollz as Miss Anton
2010 Megaconda as Anna Carson
2011 1313: Wicked Stepbrother as Minvera
2011 1313: Actor Slash Model as Suzy
2012 1313: Cougar Cult as Victoria
2012 1313: Bermuda Triangle as Echo
2013 The Trouble With Barry as Michelle
2014 3 Scream Queens as Sylvia
2022 Mark of the Devil 777: The Moralist, Part 2 as Miss Mann
2022 Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 as Lisa
2024 Monster Mash as Browning
2024 Return of the Dark House of Mystery as Emma Lou

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Sagliani, Devan (25 August 2014). "Marilyn Burns And The Women Who Created A Horror Movie Staple | Dark Dreams | The Escapist". escapistmagazine.com. Escapist Magazine. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b Jones, Stephen (2000). The Essential Monster Movie Guide: A Century of Creature Features on Film, Tv and Video. Billboard Books. p. 69. ISBN 9780823079360. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ "Cafe Flesh (1982)" Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine film review by Alan Jones, BBC Radio Times. Retrieved 2007-09-25. (Dead link)
^ Washington, Julie E. (31 March 2000). "I SCREAM YOU SCREAM WE ALL SCREAM FOR SCREAM QUEENS". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ Butler, Robert W. (12 August 2004). "She reigns as scream queen of B movies". Chicago Tribune. Knight Ridder/Tribune News. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
^ Sagliani, Devan. "Marilyn Burns And The Women Who Created A Horror Movie Staple | Dark Dreams | The Escapist". escapistmagazine.com. Escapist Magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
^ "Michelle Bauer" Archived 2006-10-30 at the Wayback Machine, interviews by Frederick C. Szebin and Catherine Carson, Femme Fatales, April 22, 1995. Archived at PicPal's Michelle Bauer Home Page. Retrieved 2007-09-30.

External links

Michelle Bauer at IMDb
Michelle Bauer at the Internet Adult Film Database
Michelle Bauer at the Adult Film Database

[escapistmagazine-1] Sagliani, Devan (25 August 2014). "Marilyn Burns And The Women Who Created A Horror Movie Staple | Dark Dreams | The Escapist". escapistmagazine.com. Escapist Magazine. Retrieved 3 July 2022.

[EMMG-2] Jones, Stephen (2000). The Essential Monster Movie Guide: A Century of Creature Features on Film, Tv and Video. Billboard Books. p. 69. ISBN 9780823079360. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[RadioTimes-3] "Cafe Flesh (1982)" Archived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine film review by Alan Jones, BBC Radio Times. Retrieved 2007-09-25. (Dead link)

[TPD-4] Washington, Julie E. (31 March 2000). "I SCREAM YOU SCREAM WE ALL SCREAM FOR SCREAM QUEENS". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[CT-5] Butler, Robert W. (12 August 2004). "She reigns as scream queen of B movies". Chicago Tribune. Knight Ridder/Tribune News. Retrieved 20 March 2019.

[6] Sagliani, Devan. "Marilyn Burns And The Women Who Created A Horror Movie Staple | Dark Dreams | The Escapist". escapistmagazine.com. Escapist Magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2020.

[FemmeFatales-7] "Michelle Bauer" Archived 2006-10-30 at the Wayback Machine, interviews by Frederick C. Szebin and Catherine Carson, Femme Fatales, April 22, 1995. Archived at PicPal's Michelle Bauer Home Page. Retrieved 2007-09-30.

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