With her fiery scarlet hair, pretty round freckled face, awesomely ample, buxom and shapely figure, and infectiously bubbly good-natured personality, popular 1970s soft-core starlet Sharon Kelly was as endearing as she was alluring, a potent double whammy that, in turn, made the always exuberant Irish redhead absolutely irresistible. Kelly was ...
[on the possibility of writing her autobiography] I haven't given much thought to writing a book but you know if Jerry Butler for Christ's sake can "write" a book--although I remain skeptical he can read one--maybe I should consider it.
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[on John Leslie] John was monogamous in his private life. He was a truly handsome guy who women often described as a "gentleman". I don't remember hearing a single negative about him from the ladies.
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[on Henri Pachard] ...he was a genuinely nice guy. A horndog, but a funny, positive and respectful horndog.
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[on "sexploitation" director Bethel Buckalew, with whom she worked several times in the 1970s] Buckalew was the perfect director. He was very even-tempered, mellow. I think he was good at editing in his head while he was shooting. These movies were so low budget raw stock was a major expense, so shooting efficiently was a valuable skill. He was also arguably the best looking director doing sexploitation in the '70s.
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[on dating Jerry Maren] ...a very nice man and one of the last surviving OZ [The Wizard of Oz (1939)] Munchkins I met on some dreadful little-people-as-gangsters movie [Little Cigars (1973)]. We went out once, but I was young and couldn't handle even the idea of anybody going up on me.
Hal Guthu was Brennan's agent when she acted in soft-core movies.
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Began her career in the adult entertainment industry in the late 1960's as a go-go dancer at the Clermont Lounge in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Studied ballet as a child.
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Grew up in a poor family in a blue collar working class neighborhood. Moreover, Brennan had an older sister and her father died when Brennan was only eight years old.
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Red-haired porn star who actually showed some range as an actress. One critic wrote that she could say more by arching her eyebrow and raising her upper lip than most actresses could say with a page of dialog.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
S.O.B.
1981
Tammy Taylor (as Katherine MacMurray)
Lou Grant
1979
TV Series
Marie Gladdings
Love Games
1976
Lucy Brown (uncredited)
Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks
1976
Nora Edward (as Sharon Kelly)
Hustle
1975
Gloria Hollinger (as Sharon Kelly)
Around the World with John 'The Wadd' Holmes
1975
Shirley (voice, uncredited)
The Boob Tube
1975
Selena (as Sharon Kelly)
Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS
1975
Redheaded Prisoner (uncredited)
Mafia Girls
1975
Louise Tyler (as Sara Bloom)
Supervixens
1975
SuperCherry (as Sharon Kelly)
Delinquent School Girls
1975
Greta Anderson (as Sharon Kelly)
Shampoo
1975
Painted Lady (as Sharon Kelly)
Alias Big Cherry
1975
as Sharon Kelly
The Beauties and the Beast
1974
Redhead in Cave (as Sharon Kelly)
Alice Goodbody
1974
Alice Goodbody (as Sharon Kelly)
The Young Secretaries
1974
Caroline (as Sharon O'Hara)
Teenage Bride
1974
Marie (as Sharon Kelly)
Shikijô Toruko nikki
1974
as Sharon Kerî
Foxy Brown
1974
Hooker (uncredited)
Orgy American Style
1973
as Sharon Kelly
The Dirty Dolls
1973
Shelly (as Sharon Kelly)
Sassy Sue
1973
Dolly Lee (as Sharon Kelly)
The Dirty Mind of Young Sally
1973
Sally (as Sharon Kelly)
Invasion of the Bee Girls
1973
Nude Bee Girl on Motorcycle (uncredited)
Little Cigars
1973
Stripper #3 (as Sharon Kelly)
A Scream in the Streets
1973
Jenny the Dispatcher (uncredited)
Killer Teens
2012
TV Movie
Nasty Girls 2
1990/I
Girls Who Dig Girls 8
1988
Video
Little Red Riding Hood
1988
Pub Patron (as Oiga Vault)
Taste of the Best
1988
The Ribald Tales of Canterbury
1988
Lady of Bath
Club Ecstasy
1987
Video
Gayle
Girls Who Love to Suck
1987
Video
Lady by Night
1987
Video
Danielle
Leather and Lace
1987
Love Champions
1987
Raw Talent II
1987
Carolyn (as Oyga Vault)
Striptease
1987
Slammer Girls
1987
Professor (as Sharon Kelly)
An Unnatural Act, Part II
1987
Madame Lola
Street Heat
1987
Kay McDonald
What's Love
1987
as Sharon Kelly
All for His Ladies
1986
Video
Down & Dirty in Beverly Hills
1986
Video
The Mother
Innocent Taboo
1986
Video
Laura Anderson (as Colleen Brenan)
I Wanna Be a Bad Girl
1986
Secret Mistress
1986
Video
Liza
She Loves... The Four-X Feeling
1986
Video
Sharon
Taboo V
1986
Video
Mary / Maureen Casey
The Red Garter
1986
Video
Perfect Fit
1986
Video
Mrs. Green (uncredited)
Beverly Hills Exposed
1986
Tanya Towns
Star Angel
1986
Kate Fredericks
A Coming of Angels: 'The Sequel'
1985
Senator's wife
Blondie
1985
Millie (as Coleen Brennan)
Candy Stripers Part II
1985
Coming Together
1985
Tracy
Country Girl
1985
Video
Lorraine
Dirty Shary
1985
Video
Madame
Electric Blue 31
1985
Video
Debbie
Flesh and Bullets
1985
as Sharon Kelly
Flesh and Ecstasy
1985
Video
Aunt (as Coleen Brennan)
Love Champions
1985
Nice n' Tight
1985
Sally Thompson (as Collen Brennn)
Sexorama
1985
Swedish Erotica 59
1985
uncredited
Talk Dirty to Me One More Time
1985
The Initiation of Cynthia
1985
Wet, Wild & Wicked
1985
Video
Beth
Mother's Pride
1985
Video
Bonnie Allen
Some Kind of Woman
1985
Kitty
Family Secrets
1985
Joanna (as Coleen Brennan)
Tower of Power
1985
Lilly (as Sharon Kelly)
69 Park Avenue
1985
Video
Madam (as Coleen Brennan)
Bedtime Tales
1985
Video
Miss Cummings
Getting Personal
1985
Wanda
Hot Blooded
1985
His Wife (as Colleen Brennen)
Sex-a-vision
1985
Waitress
Sex Crimes 2084
1985
Mrs. Morse
Squalor Motel
1985
Miss Clark (as Collean Brenner)
The Animal in Me
1985
Video
Maggie Halliday
Cathouse Fever
1984
Becky's Thoughts (voice, uncredited)
Cummin' Alive
1984
One Night at a Time
1984
Maggie
Scared Stiff
1984
Ginger #2 (as Colleen Brennen)
Six Faces of Samantha
1984
Suzy's Birthday Bang
1984
Video
Aunt Edwina
Good Girls, Bad Girls
1984
Velva
Talk Dirty to Me Part III
1984
Sylvia
China and Silk
1984
Nancy Shaw (as Colleen Brennen)
Up Up and Away
1984
Woman Trying on Lingerie
Little Kimmi Johnson
1984
Video
Kimmi's Mother (uncredited)
Sulka's Daughter
1984
Cowboy's Wife (as Colleen Brenner)
Daisy Chain
1984
Video
Dirty Girls
1984
Colleen (uncredited)
Girls of the Night
1984
Video
Janice (as Colleen Brennen)
Maid in Manhattan
1984
Jeanette Rawlings
Matinee Idol
1984
Ginger (as Colleen Brennen)
Taboo III
1984
Groupie 2
Trinity Brown
1984
Trinity Brown
Computer Girls
1983
Amy
Corrupt Desires
1983
Terri (as Collean Brenner)
Eighth Erotic Film Festifal
1983
Home Movies Ltd. 2
1983
Lady Dynamite
1983
Wife
Love Roots
1983
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
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