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Personal Info

Birth date

1936-05-18 (89 Years)

Day of death

1995-04-04

Gender

Female

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Paris, France

Also known as

Nicole Yasterbelsky

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.

Filmography

Acting

2020Anitta Dentro da Casinha (2 Episodes) as Self

2019Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau as self

1985Das Boot (6 Episodes) as Monique

1981Das Boot as Monique

1971Cent ans de Folies Bergère as Self

1963Cadavres en vacances as Stella

1963Any Number Can Win as Liliane

1963Prostitution as Rita

1963That Something... Else! as Singer

1961Secret File 1413 as Self

1961The Unsatisfied as Hilda

1961It Means That Much to Me as Mercedes

1957Until the Last One as The circus stripper

1956Cinépanorama (1 Episode) as Self

1955No Mercy for the Cellers as (uncredited)