Acquanetta Biography and Filmography

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Actresses who appeared with Acquanetta on screen:

Mary Wickes
Maria Montez
Elaine Stewart

Acquanetta
Birthday: July 17, 1921
Birth Place: Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
Height: 0' 0"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Acquanetta. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

Biography

A true screen oddity, Universal's exotic Paula the Ape Woman was, according to the lady herself, part Arapaho Indian and part British nobility. Her adopted name was Mildred Davenport and she had been a Harry Connover model prior to signing with Universal in 1942. As Acquanetta (or Burnu Acquanetta, meaning "Burning Fire"), the darkly handsome starlet starred as the Captive Wild Woman (1944), Universal's only female monster. Like her distant relative, the Panther Woman of The Island of Dr. Moreau, Paula Dupree was part animal, part human but with a tendency to turn back into the former under stress. Unfortunately, the transformation scenes were rather ill-advised, Acquanetta appearing to change from Caucasian girl to African-American to gorilla, a sequence, according to many critics, that conjured up the ridiculous racial theories of the Nazi regime. Even more ill-advised was an incredibly stupid sequel, Jungle Woman (1944), but Acquanetta was spared the third and final Ape Woman potboiler, The Jungle Captive (1945), having left Universal under somewhat mysterious circumstances. She was replaced by 18-year-old starlet Vicky Lane. After appearing in the inevitable Tarzan programmer, Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946), Acquanetta more or less ended her screen career in a weak Poverty Row sci-fi, The Lost Continent (1951). She later hosted a local television show in Arizona, authored a book on her personal philosophy, and returned to acting in the straight-to-video Grizzly Adams — The Legend Never Dies (1989).

Movie Credits

The Legend of Grizzly Adams (1990)

Take the High Ground! (1953)
[ Elaine Stewart ]

Callaway Went Thataway (1951)

Lost Continent (1951)

The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951)

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)

Dead Man's Eyes (1944)

Jungle Woman (1944)

Captive Wild Woman (1943)

Rhythm of the Islands (1943)
[ Mary Wickes ]

Arabian Nights (1942)
[ Maria Montez ]

Trivia

Abandoned her film career after her marriage to car dealer Jack Ross in the late 50s. They settled in Mesa, Arizona where she appeared quite frequently in her husband's local dealership commercials on TV. They divorced in the 80s.

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