One of Sylvester Stallone's first screen efforts was a starring role in a porn film

One of Sylvester Stallone's first screen efforts was a starring role in a porn film


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Claim: One of Sylvester Stallone's first screen efforts was a
starring role in a porn film.
Status: True.

Origins: Sylvester
Stallone did indeed get his first movie acting role in a porn movie,
called Party at Kitty and Stud's. This movie came out in 1970, when
Sly was but 24 years old, living in Hell's Kitchen, New York City,
and working a variety of menial jobs (including cinema usher) while
trying to break into the movies. At that time New York City was the
hub of U.S. porn film making. Stallone is the leading man in this X
film, and he later acknowledged in a Playboy interview that he was
paid $200 for his role. Unlike his efforts in later films, Stallone
seems to have had no part in directing or producing Party at Kitty
and Stud's.

Stallone made the most of his break, quickly entering mainstream
movies with a role in Woody Allen's Bananas the next year. He
appeared in six more films before 1976's Rocky, the role that shot
him right to the top. The canny Sicilian wrote the script for Rocky
and sold it for a very low price, on the condition that he star in
the movie and receive a share of the profits. Rocky went on to win
three Oscars, including best picture. It made Stallone's movie
career.

Whoever owned the rights to Party at Kitty and Stud's capitalized on
Stallone's new-found fame by re-releasing it under the title The
Italian Stallion (presumably a reference to the protagonist's
nickname in Rocky). The credits show that the rights to this X film
are owned by "Stallion Enterprises," so they took this theme all the
way.

Party at Kitty and Stud's/The Italian Stallion started life as a
genuine pornographic X film, though it has been brutally edited down -
- probably at the time it was retitled and re-released. There is a
new prologue where it is implied that they took out the really fun
dirty bits for the re-release. It now completely lacks any semblance
of a plot and all hard-core exhibitions, so it is somewhat hard to
follow. For example, a large mastiff dog appears at one point, but
disappears equally as rapidly, leaving the viewer confused about what
was to happen next. Party at Kitty and Stud's seems hilariously dated
in some ways, too, as it is rife with 60's slang.

At one point Kitty confides to one of her friends that Stud is "so
far out" and "animalistic". At another point Sly enjoins Kitty to "be
careful! You bit me last time." Kitty replies, "I'll be velvet-
mouthed on your shank of love!" before dissolving into an unscripted
fit of giggles only partially concealed by burying her head on
Stallone's shank of love. Stallone's best scenes are the ones where
he is naked (which is nearly all of them). The highpoint of the film
is probably Stallone's helping three women, one after the other,
although all the overt details are edited out, leaving just the
moaning and groaning.

Sly-connoisseurs will note that he has a four-inch scar on his left
thigh under his butt. Far from being a stallion, Sly is actually a
man of quite ordinary, even modest, endowment. His muscular frame,
lacking its customary coat of oil, is unimpressive. Some people claim
to see undertones of Rocky in Party at Kitty and Stud's, but I
couldn't detect any myself, unless they mean the scene where Sly
lightly beats Kitty with his pants belt. Sly lacks his trademark
sneer and talks normally in Party at Kitty and Stud's.

It is not unknown for a porn movie performer to cross over into
mainstream cinema. Traci Lords has now renounced her porn film past,
and can be seen in minor roles on television, such as a dental
assistant on "Married With Children."