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Mr. Skin Bids Farewell to Roberta Collins

Claudia Jennings. Cheryl “Rainbeaux” Smith. Candice Rialson. And, now, Roberta Collins.

Those four ferocious-yet-vulnerable blonde beauties burned incandescently and indelibly in the most inventive, innovative, and oftentimes most absolutely insane low-budget cult sensations of the 1970s.

And, alas, now they have all departed this mortal coil. Roberta’s leaving was reported by legendary filmmaker Jack Hill and he is a more-than-fitting messenger. Hill directed the flaxen powder-keg in The Big Doll House -- just one in a series of Roberta’s screen-scorchers.

Learn more, and see Roberta at her bare best, after the jump.