
Rita Cadillac
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1936-05-18
Day of Death
1995-04-04 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Rita Cadillac
Biography
Rita Cadillac (born Nicole Yasterbelsky; 18 May 1936 – 4 April 1995) was a French dancer, singer, and actress.
Cadillac was born in Paris and started her music career as an accordionist under the alias "Rita Rella" at the age of 13. In 1952, she was a pin-up model and took the name "Rita Cadillac" (clearly as an allusion to her prominent breasts) at Crazy Horse where she began to work as an exotic dancer. She was also a dancer of Folies Bergère in the 1950s.
Cadillac appeared in many French films such as Soirs de Paris (1954), Porte océane (1958), La prostitution (1962), Un clair de lune à Maubeuge (1962), and Any Number Can Win (1963), becoming a renowned figure throughout Europe. In 1981, she appeared in the miniseries and film Das Boot, as the club singer Monique, in the town of La Rochelle.
She is the inspiration for Miss Rita Chevrolet, a recurring joke in the British satirical magazine Private Eye.
Source: Article "Rita Cadillac (French dancer)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Acting
(2019)
(1981)
Das Boot
as Monique
(1971)
Cent ans de Folies Bergère
as Self
(1963)
Any Number Can Win
as Liliane
(1963)
Cadavres en vacances
as Stella
(1963)
Prostitution
as Rita
(1963)
Αυτό το κάτι άλλο!
as Singer
(1961)
It Means That Much to Me
as Mercedes
(1961)
The Unsatisfied
as Hilda
(1961)
Secret File 1413
as Self
(1957)
Until the Last One
as The circus stripper
(1955)
No Mercy for the Cellers
as (uncredited)