The Secret Life of Dolly Sharp, Part 4: Whatever Happened to Helen Wood? – Podcast 112

The Rialto Report

Ashley West

Arts, Tv & Film, Performing Arts

4.8 • 531 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the first part of the mini-series ‘The Secret Life of Dolly Sharp’, I went in search for the enigmatic Deep Throat actor with the mysterious past, who seemed to disappear from the face of the earth back in 1972. I spoke to Gerry Damiano and Harry Reems who worked with Dolly on ‘Deep Throat’, to actors who appeared in other films with her like Fred Lincoln and Jamie Gillis, even one of the first porn agents, Tallie Cochrane.

In the second part, I found that Dolly had had a long and successful career on stage and in movies – as Helen Wood – long before she entered the adult film industry.

In the third part, I went in search of Dolly Sharp, to find out why she had disappeared from New York shortly after she appeared in ‘Deep Throat.’

In this final episode, I look for Helen Wood.

This podcast is 43 minutes long.

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Helen Wood takes New York

Helen in ‘Give A Girl A Break’

Helen Wood in the 1990s

Helen in the 1990s

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0:00.0	Previously, on The Secret Life of Dolly Sharp.
0:09.0	What you're going to see now is an illustration of many different techniques.
0:14.0	The couple that are doing it are especially limber and strong
0:19.0	and may do things that you couldn't do.
0:25.6	This is just a message of love I love you and miss you.
0:30.6	It's about 12.03 a.m.
0:35.6	Can't recall any of the 60s.
0:38.3	Everything's a blank from 75.
0:40.3	There was too much mystery there.
0:45.3	When she came out and I saw her in that movie, then you just thrown right into into that and it's like you've gone to a different planet.
0:57.0	In 1988, Helen Wood was living in Reseda, California, where she worked as a waitress in a diner called Biffs.
1:14.4	It was a far cry from her life in the 1950s and 60s, when she'd been a famous dancer, actor and violinist, but she rarely spoke about those days anymore.
1:24.2	It was also a long way from her career in adult films in the 1970s when she was known as Dolly Sharp, but she certainly never mentioned that to anyone.
1:32.5	Except that her boyfriend John had recently discovered her porn past, and he wasn't exactly dealing with it very well, but instead said about finding out everything he could about it.
1:42.6	And that included finding and contacting Helen's ex-husband Ed,
1:46.3	who she'd been married to back in the heyday of her performing career.
1:49.8	It was an awkward conversation.
1:55.2	Oh, is this Edward B.
1:57.6	Yes.
2:00.9	Yes. Yes.
2:02.7	I'm calling you from California.
2:06.6	Yes.
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