RIP

Lina Romay, a pretty brunette who starred in numerous risqué features for
longtime companion Jesus Franco, has died. According to online reports, Romay
died of cancer on February 15. She was 57.

Born Rosa María Almirall
Martínez in Barcelona on June 25, 1954, Romay began her film career while in her
late teens. The source for her artistic name was another Lina Romay, a singer
with Xavier Cugat's band who had featured roles in movies such as Love Laughs at
Andy Hardy and Joe Palooka in the Big Fight.

The Spanish Romay's movies,
however, were anything but G-rated fare. Her gialli and erotica efforts had
titles such as Tender and Perverse Emanuelle (1973), Justine and the Whip
(1979), The White Slave (1985), and Alone Against Terror (1987). From the early
'70s to 2005, she was featured in more than 100 productions.

Among
Romay's movies directed (and oftentimes edited/scored/shot/etc.) by Jesus Franco
(aka Jess Franco and countless other pseudonyms) were Swedish Nympho Slaves
(1977), The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979), White Cannibal Queen (1981), Hellhole
Women (1981), and Macumba Sexual (1983). Romay also helped Franco in the
directorial/editing process, and under the pseudonyms Lulu Laverne/Candy Coster
directed a dozen movies in the 1980s. Additionally, she was perfectly
comfortable performing in sexually explicit fare.

Needless to say, the
Franco-Romay movies were no-budget efforts. Yet, the couple managed to carve out
for themselves a lasting place in the realm of erotica/gialli
filmmaking.

"It's said than I am an exhibitionist," Romay once
(supposedly) remarked. "Every actor is one — I gladly accept that. I'm not a
hypocrite."

Cugat's Lina Romay, by the way, died at the age of 91 in
December 2010 in Pasadena, northeast of downtown Los Angeles.

http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/lina-romay-sex-movie-horror-actress/