Nai Bonet
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Nai Bonet is an Vietnam
ese belly-dancer
, singer and film actress. Born in Saigon to a Vietnamese mother and French father, Bonet began her professional career at age 13, when she headlined as a belly-dancer in a show at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. She began appearing in films in 1964 (frequently portraying a belly-dancer), as well as in television, commercials, variety shows, her photos adorned several album covers and she continued to appear as a night club headliner. In 1966 she released the novelty song Jelly Belly, and she filmed a music video for the song which was featured on Scopitone
video jukeboxes.
In the 1970s, Bonet decided to focus exclusively on her acting career, "But I wasn't getting anywhere in pictures," she said in 1978. After conceiving, producing and starring in two film flops (1979's Nocturna
and 1980's Hoodlums), Bonet gave up her career and has since fallen into total obscurity. According to information on the Internet Movie Database
, she found religion and moved to Medjugorje, but the accuracy of this information is questionable given the numerous other inaccuracies on the same page.
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
ese belly-dancer
Belly dance
Belly dance or Bellydance is a "Western"-coined name for a traditional "Middle Eastern" dance, especially raqs sharqi . It is sometimes also called Middle Eastern dance or Arabic dance in the West, or by the Greco-Turkish term çiftetelli...
, singer and film actress. Born in Saigon to a Vietnamese mother and French father, Bonet began her professional career at age 13, when she headlined as a belly-dancer in a show at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. She began appearing in films in 1964 (frequently portraying a belly-dancer), as well as in television, commercials, variety shows, her photos adorned several album covers and she continued to appear as a night club headliner. In 1966 she released the novelty song Jelly Belly, and she filmed a music video for the song which was featured on Scopitone
Scopitone
Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. Scopitone films were a forerunner of music videos. The Italian Cinebox/Colorama and Color-Sonics were competing, lesser-known technologies of the time....
video jukeboxes.
In the 1970s, Bonet decided to focus exclusively on her acting career, "But I wasn't getting anywhere in pictures," she said in 1978. After conceiving, producing and starring in two film flops (1979's Nocturna
Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula
Nocturna is a 1979 film conceived by star Nai Bonet and written and directed by Harry Hurwitz, who was credited as "Harry Tampa".-Plot:...
and 1980's Hoodlums), Bonet gave up her career and has since fallen into total obscurity. According to information on the Internet Movie Database
Internet Movie Database
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, she found religion and moved to Medjugorje, but the accuracy of this information is questionable given the numerous other inaccuracies on the same page.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Diary of a Bachelor | Bachelorette | ||
| 1965 | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home John Goldfarb, Please Come Home John Goldfarb, Please Come Home is a 1963 novel by William Peter Blatty that was adapted as a film by the same title, released in 1965.-Synopsis:... |
Specialty Dancer | ||
| 1965 | The Beverly Hillbillies The Beverly Hillbillies The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.... |
Second Harem Girl | Episode: The Sheik | |
| 1965 | Boeing Boeing | Air India Stewardess | uncredited | |
| 1966 | The Spy with a Cold Nose The Spy with a Cold Nose The Spy with a Cold Nose is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Daniel Petrie.-Cast:* Laurence Harvey as Dr. Francis Trevelyan* Daliah Lavi as Princess Natasha Romanova* Lionel Jeffries as Stanley Farquhar* Eric Sykes as Wrigley... |
Belly Dancer | ||
| 1967 | Devil's Angels | Tanya | ||
| 1973 | Soul Hustler | Helena | ||
| 1973 | The Soul of Nigger Charley The Soul of Nigger Charley The Soul of Nigger Charley is a 1973 blaxploitation western film directed by Larry Spangler and starring Fred Williamson. It is the sequel to 1972's The Legend of Nigger Charley. It is followed by Boss Nigger... |
Anita | ||
| 1977 | The Greatest | Suzie Gomez | ||
| 1977 | Fairy Tales Fairy Tales (film) Fairy Tales is a 1979 sex comedy directed by Harry Hurwitz, the plot of which revolves around the stereotypical Fairy Tale.-Synopsis:On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince of the land goes searching for the one woman that can get his libido moving again.-Cast:* Don Sparks as Prince* Sy Richardson... |
Sheherazade Shéhérazade Shéhérazade is the title of two works by the French composer Maurice Ravel.Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie, written in 1898 but unpublished, is a work for orchestra intended as the overture for an opera of the same name... |
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| 1979 | Nocturna Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula Nocturna is a 1979 film conceived by star Nai Bonet and written and directed by Harry Hurwitz, who was credited as "Harry Tampa".-Plot:... |
Nocturna | a.k.a. Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula | |
| 1980 | Hoodlums | Loretta | a.k.a. Gangsters | |