This one’s for all the fellas out there.





Russ Meyer is the epitome of the American rags-to-riches story. His mother was a nurse who raised him in southern California in the 20s & 30s. His father was a police officer that, due to divorce, had virtually no contact with Russ throughout his life. Russ’ mom pawned her wedding ring in 1936 to buy her boy an 8mm film camera and by 1937, at the age of just 15, Russ began winning prizes with his amateur films. In the 1940s, he served as a U.S. Army combat cameraman in Europe. When he returned after the war, unable to get work in Hollywood, he made industrial films & even freelanced as a Playboy photographer! His experience creating documentary-style films, heavy with narration, (along with his love of the female form) would inform much of his later work.





By the late 1950s, Russ had decided to switch into feature film-making with his naughty comedy The Immoral Mr. Teas. It is in this genre blend of slapstick comedy combined with sexual themes that Russ Meyer would make his name.



