As an actress on the stage in the earlier part of her career, you can imagine that going into adult film was definitely a 'transition’. While everyone is familiar with Georgina’s adult films, some of her stage work is left unmentioned.

“My theatre experience before I got into sex films was primarily in musical comedy – a genre that still stirs my cockles when it’s good and makes my blood boil when it isn’t,” says Georgina. “I was lucky enough to get into the chorus of Pajama Game in 1955, and even landed in the lead dance role as a replacement when Neale Adams – who was playing the part at the time – left the show to marry Steve McQueen. The role was Gladys (glad ass), the company flirt, and was the role that sent Shirley MacLaine to Hollywood.

I was also in Cabaret with Lottie Lenya and Jack Gilford. I fell heir to the role of one of the two ladies in the Two Ladies number – also due to the constant replacements that take place in long-running shows. Back in the late 50s and early 60s, there were summer stock theaters all over the country that staged the most recent Broadway hits, and kept alive the traditions of Light Operas with such adorable old chestnuts as Vagabond King, Desert Song, Naughty Marietta, and Song of Norway, to name a few. I was a soubrette – usually the second or third female lead who was expected to sing, dance, and be very funny – usually paired with the comic. I might have hung on and moved into character roles as many dancers did as they aged, but I got really pissed off at what the government was doing in Viet Nam and joined the ranks of some like-minded film-makers who were doing their best to bring the facts of the case before the public eye. When funds ran low, I looked for work in film anywhere I could find it – which led me to work in the sex film area. Details in the book, of course."

Are there any feelings of guilt or regret about doing the pornography?

“Gratitude for the paltry pay that paid the rent on our film commune, The Pickle Factory. Sense of guilt? None, at the time. I’d been pretty promiscuous in my ill-spent youth, and chorus girls weren’t exactly known for their chastity. When The Devil in Miss Jones made the mainstream news, I had to confront the fact that my family and their friends had probably found out about my 'new career'. I did feel guilt about the embarrassment it must have caused my parents. Still do."

The Devil in Miss Jones was an amazing film, and one that crosses boundaries between adult film and drama. What made it stand out so much among other adult movies of the time was “the quality of the script, the characters, and the way the movie was made: all due to the care and expertise of Gerard Damiano, the writer/director and his cameraman – a master cinematographer who would rather not have his real name reveled. Then, of course, there was the lucky happenstance that placed me – a trained actress (OK, trained dancer, but there’s a lot of acting involved in dancing, and I DID take a lot of acting classes) – in his office when he was looking for his Miss Jones.”

The High Priestess of Sexual Witchcraft - this movie has a strong supernatural theme in which Georgina played the role of the mother (who sexually abuses her adult son in a plot twist!).

“It seems quite natural to me that the occult – so often confused with Devil worship – should be a theme of sex-oriented activity. Sex has been demonized by polite society since the Roman’s ran it into the ground – if not before.”

I Spit on your Corpse was a precursor to the Thelma & Louise's of later years and seems to have been influenced a lot by Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! Georgina starred as the lead, Donna, a female assassin who is followed by two other women hired to stop her from destroying a politician. Lots of nudity, violence, and camp.

“I think it was the only film I did with Al Adamson and one of the very few non-porn (that is, no explicit sex scenes, though the violence was plenty pornographic) films I did,” says Georgina. “I can’t really tell you the plot. I’ve never watched the film, and I remember very little about the shoot, except that we were shooting in the desert in 120 degree heat. Thank goodness I had sense enough to borrow the bed sheet form the motel so I could soak it in the scant water supply and sit under it when I wasn’t required on the set to punch somebody out or shoot them or something.”

As far as her acting style, Georgina “was a ‘learn your lines, pay attention, NEVER EVER be late for your call, be freshly bathed and of course sober, and stay out of the way when you’re not needed’ actress. Still am.”

 After years working in the adult film industry, Georgina managed to land a role in the cult comedy classic Police Academy and a sequel playing the role of ‘Hooker’.

“Again, the fickle finger of fate singled me out. The producer, Paul Maslansky, and his director, Hugh Wilson, wanted a name porn star to do the (simulated!) podium blow job on George Gains, so they tracked me down. I was working as an editor at the time and one day a friend called me and said that this agent was looking for me and I should call her. I did and she sent me to the Ladd Production Office in the heart of the studios in Burbank. What a thrill to give my name at the gate and be directed to a parking place reserved for such VIP visitors as yours truly. That scene, due to HIS expertise, not mine, turned out to be one of the funniest moments of film I’ve ever seen. The cast, director, and crew – everybody was just wonderful to me.”

The Police Academy films also made the career of one other Pretty/Scary lady – Leslie Easterbrook. Lt. Callahan ended up playing Mama Firefly in The Devil’s Rejects.

“My only regret,” jokes Georgina about the Police Academy films, “is that I turned down a dinner invitation from Bubba Smith. Well, I was in a committed relationship – oh yes, the one that turned into a marriage in 2000 after 24 years of living in delicious sin. I didn’t want to be tempted, and you gotta admit, Bubba Smith is pretty damn tempting.”

Bad Blood was a film that allowed Georgina a startling dramatic turn in a slasher movie. However, she acted under a pseudonym.

“Chuck Vincent, who had produced and directed a few terrific porn films, himself, had engaged Hollywood names, Linda Blair and Troy Donahue, for this effort, however, and didn’t want anyone to think it was a porn film. Therefore he asked that I not use Georgina Spelvin in the credits. It was a slasher film. I adored Chuck and was sorry we didn’t get to make other films together before the scourge of AIDS took him from us – as it did so many of my dearest friends. He was a very talented man and made the best damn chili I ever ate.”

Still Insatiable - directed by a woman, (and porn star) Veronica Hart, is highly recommended because of the believability of the acting and the interesting plotline, according to many film critics.

“I didn’t realize Veronica directed that,” says Georgina of her colleague. “She is one of my very special pals and I do write about her and her late husband, who was also a very special pal from back before I made Devil and long before I met Veronica. She’s a very special lady.”

 Still Insatiable starred Marilyn Chambers, the adult star who also appeared in horror films like Rabid.

“I was honored to present [Marilyn] with an Adult Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award one year. There is an amusing story about her and her role in my meeting up with Sammy Davis, Jr. whom I’d known in Vegas, and briefly in Dallas before that, way back in 1954.”

 Other movies by women, like Baise-Moi by Coralie Trihn Ti and Virginie Despentes, reflect rebelliousness against society and the porn industry. These two former adult actresses made their film about two women who are raped and then who go on a killing spree a la Thelma and Louise. It has some pornographic scenes in the film, and stars two porn actresses. Exploitation films of the 60's and 70's that featured women in violent positions (like Georgina’s I Spit on Your Corpse or Faster, Pussycat Kill! Kill!, and especially I Spit on Your Grave) were influential in inspiring women to make films like Baise-Moi and even allowed the mainstream Thelma and Louise to be acceptable. Movies that show women in violent, powerful positions, often rebelling against the norms of sexuality and taking control of their sex lives, empower other filmmakers and women to make movies with these themes.

Georgina has a more practical view on filmmaking than I do, however.

“People, male or female, make films that they can sell to the public. If they didn’t, they would have to find another line of work – as I eventually did.”

Writing her memoirs came naturally to Georgina. She’s always been big on books.

“I started ‘writing books’ before I could even really read,” she remembers. “I would pretend to read the books I loved. One of the first favorites I remember was Buck Rodgers. Not the comic book. This was a BIG hard-cover with great pictures on almost every page. My uncle, who was twelve - only eight years older than I – would read it to me whenever I cornered him. Soon, I discovered I could read it to myself! My nose was rarely out of a book from then on – except when I was in ballet class. I’ve written many books. This just happens to be the first one I thought MIGHT be of enough interest to others to pay for the paper it requires. What can people learn about me in this book? Well, quite a lot. I don’t hold back about anything – except my real name.”

The "real" Georgina, during an interview

Now happily married, Georgina owns her own publishing company, Little Red Hen Books, a wholly owned subsidiary of GeorginsWorld Inc. – the company that Georgina and her husband own. She’s also designed the layouts and typeset for not only her own book, but her husband’s children’s book, available at http://stores.lulu.com/spelvin (her Lulu store).

“There’s also a very funny book of drawings with captions that I compiled, designed, and – again – typeset.”

Georgina is surprisingly accessible to her fans.

“I’m trying to get better about updating the NEWS blog on my website, GeorginasWorld.com,” she says, and includes, “I’d like to invite anyone interested to visit it now and then and to send me feedback and questions if they like. My email is posted on the site. I’m having a hell of a time finding the time to write. I had no idea getting the word out to the world that I had finally published a book would take so much time out of every day. I refuse to give up my morning trip to the gym with my far-better-half, John, and dinner while watching Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune is another must in our lives.”

Despite the fact that she insists she’s too busy to find the time to write, “I’m working on a sequel to The Devil Made Me Do It. Working title: Going Down in Flames.”

No matter what anyone else says, it’s true that in the past ten years the latest generation of female pornographers have been influenced by Georgina’s work in The Devil in Miss Jones. There has definitely been an increase in adult films directed by women that deal with the ideas of heaven and hell & the supernatural… Films that come to mind are Jenna Jameson's Bella Loves Jenna in which Jenna descends into hell after being executed for murder. She then has a series of sexual encounters, some very creepy, and Zenova Braedon's The Taunting from 2007.

“I regret nothing.” Says the straightforward woman that is Georgina Spelvin. “Me and Edith Piaf. Well, nothing about making sex films. I do regret the pain I caused so many people I love when I got my head stuck in the bottle. The films I did were done with and by people who first and foremost loved making films. They seemed to like sex a lot, too. Well,” she adds, “so did I.”

The Devil Made Me Do it is available at  bookstores everywhere and on Lulu.com. Georgina's website is www.GeorginasWorld.com