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TRACI LORDS BIOGRAPHY                       Last Update: Thur April 14, 1994
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   In the listing below, question marks indicate where the information
   shown has not been confirmed.  If you have any more information,
   please send it to me so that I might keep the list updated and
   correct.  If you wish to redistribute this list, feel free to do
   so but please leave my name intact so that I might be credited
   with all the hard work that has gone into it.  Thanks to the others
   who have shared information.  Special thanks to Steve Kao who has
   put a lot of work into updating the list regularly.

   Dan Abend (abend@cis.ohio-state.edu)

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
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Stage Name  : Traci Elizabeth Lords
Real Name   : Nora Louise Kuzma
Birthdate   : May 7, 1968
Birthplace  : Steubenville, Ohio
Hobbies     : writing poetry, music and song lyrics
Favorite
  Actor     : Jack Lord (Hawaii FIVE-O)
Fan Club    : Traci Lords Fan Club
              2301 Artesia Blvd, Suite 12-224
              Redondo Beach, CA 90278
              (as of 1990 taken from Blue Jeans Poster)              

* At age 12, her mother (Patricia Briceland) divorced her alcoholic steel
  worker husband and the family moved to Redondo Beach, California.
* 1983 - Entered Redondo Beach Union High School -- in Pilot 1984 Yearbook
* She got pregnant the first time she had sex and paid for her own abortion.
* Dropped out of High School
* Begins her trip to cocaine addiction
* Ran away from home
* Signed with the World Modelling Agency in Sherman Oaks under the name
  Kristie Nussman.
* Changed her name to Traci Lords.
* Lived at the corner of Catalina and Garnet in Redondo Beach when the FBI
  raided her apartment. (summer 1986)
* Took voice and ballet lesson, and trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute
  in Hollywood.
* 1988 - Starred in Roger Corman's remake "Not of This Earth"
* 1990 - John Waters' "Cry Baby"
  Met Brook Yeaton, a propmaster on the "Cry Baby" set.
* Married Brook Yeaton on Sept 29, 1990 in a traditional Catholic ceremony.

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ADULT FILMS                                Distributor
   Title                                     -Director      Scene Year Role
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Traci, Je t`aime                           Traci Lords Company?   l     (s)
  (This is the original French release of Traci's first legal film)
I Love You Traci                           Cabellero              l  87 (s)
P.S. I Love You                            Cabellero              l  89 (s)
  (This video is an edited version of I Love You Traci)
A Taste of Traci Lords                     Cabellero              l  89 (s)
  (This video is an edited version of I Love You Traci)

Under-aged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ADULT FILMS                               Distributor
   Title                                    -Director      Scene Year Role
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1   Adult 45 Vol. 1                       Dreamland Home Video       85 ( )
2   Adventures of Tracy Dick:
       Case of the Missing Stiff          Western Visuals-Tanner     85 (s)
3   Alex DeRenzy's Wild Things            Cal Vista/Caballero           (q)
4   American Babylon                      ?-Mahler                   85 (s)
5   Another Roll in the Hay               Standard Video-Svetlana    85 (s)
6   Aroused                               Vista Video-McCallum       85 (s)
7   Bad Girls III                         Gourmet Video-Svetlana     84 (s)
8   Battle of the Stars                   Now Showing-Cole           85 (s)
9   Best of Diamond Collection #1         CDI Home Video                ( )
10  Beverly Hills Copulator               Traci Lords Co.-Cartier    86 ( )
11  Black Throat                          VCA-Dark Brothers          85 (s)01
12  Breaking It                           Collector's Video-Svetlana 84 (s)
13  California Star Pony Girls #1         California Star               ( )
14  California Star Pony Girls #2         California Star               ( )
15  Country Girl                          AVC-Chinn                  85 (s)
16  Deep Inside Traci                     CDI Home Video-Gower       86 (s)03
17  Diamond Collection #69                CDI Home Video                ( )
18  Diamond Collection #73                CDI Home Video                ( )
19  Diamond Collection #75                CDI Home Video             86 (q)
20  Diamond Collection #76                CDI Home Video                ( )
21  Diamond Preview Tape                  CDI Home Video                ( )
22  Dirty Pictures                        Superior Video             85 (s)
23  Double Penetration 2                  ?-John T. Bone             87 ( )
24  Dream Lover                           CDI Home Video-Renyolds    86 (1)
25  Educating Mandy                       CDI Home Video             85 (s)
26  Electric Blue: Beverly Hills Wives    Caballero Home Video          ( )
27  Erotic Gold #1                        Ventura Video                 ( )
28  Erotic Zones #1                       Caballero                  85 (q)
29  Fantasy Club #59                      Western Visuals               ( )
30  First Annual XROC Awards:
       Night of Legends                   AVC                        85 ( )
31  Future Voyeur                         Superstar Video            85 (1)
32  Gourmet Premier Quickies              Gourmet Video                 ( )
33  Gourmet Quickies                      Gourmet Video              85 (s)
34  Graffenberg Spot                      Mitchell Bros.         dpp 85 (1)01
35  Harlequin Affair                      Cinematrex -Bruce Seven    85 (s)
36  Holly Does Hollywood                  Video Exclusive-Fellows    85 (s)
37  Hollywood Heartbreakers               Video Exclusive-Curtis     85 (s)
38  Hot Pink                              VCR                        85 (1)
39  Hot Shorts                            VCR                           ( )
41  Hot Shorts with Raven                 VCR                           ( )
42  Huge Bras #3                          Western Visuals               ( )
43  It's My Body                          CDI Home Video-Bronson     85 (s)
44  Jean Genie                            Caballero-Mitchel          85 (s)
45  Joys of Erotica Vo. 110               VCR                           ( )
46  Joys of Erotica Vo. 114               VCR                           ( )
47  Jubilee of Eroticism                  Collectors                 85 ( )
48  Just Another Pretty Face              AVC-Scott Fox              85 (s)
49  Keyhole Productions #102              Video Exclusives              ( )
50  Keyhole Productions #104              Video Exclusives              ( )
51  Kinky Business                        Dreamland-Ross             84 (1)
52  Ladies in Lace                        Masterpiece-Remy           85 ( )
53  Love Bites                            Caballero-Nye              84 (1)
54  Lust in the Fast Lane                 Paradise Visuals           84 (s)
55  Lust on Main Street                   Gourmet Video              84 (q)
56  Marilyn Chambers Private Fantasies 5  Creative Image/Caballero   85 ( )
57  Marilyn Chambers Private Fantasies 6  Creative Image/Caballero   86 ( )
58  Miss Passion                          Vidco-Randall              84 (s)
59  More Than a Handful #1                L.A. Video                 85 (q)
60  New Wave Hookers                      VCA-Dark Brothers          85 (1)01
61  Night of Loving Dangerously           Paradise Visuals-Adam      84 (s)
62  Nympherotica                          Collector's Video             ( )
63  One Hot Night of Passion              Collector's Video          85 (q)
64  Open Up Traci                         Vidco-Carpenter            85 (s)
65  Passion Pit                           Essex-Dumont/DeSantos      85 (s)
66  Peek-A-Boo Gang                       Collector's Video-Jeremy   85 ( )
67  Perfect Fit                           Dreamland-Nelson           85 ( )
68  Physical II                           Superior                   85 ( )
69  Pleasure Party                        Gourmet Video-Shubert      85 ( )
70  Pleasure Productions #9               VCR                           ( )
71  Pleasure Productions #10              VCR                           ( )
72  Porn in the USA                       Ventura Video              85 (q)
73  Portrait of Lust                      Coast to Coast-Drea        85 ( )
74  Raven                                 VCR                           (1)04
75  Reincarnation of Don Juan             Superior Video             86 (1)
76  Screaming Desire                      VCR                        85 ( )
77  Sex 5th Avenue                        Western Visuals            85 (s)01
78  Sex Goddess                           Gourmet Video-Karch        85 (s)
79  Sex Shoot                             Atom Home Video            85 (s)
80  Sex Waves                             Excalibur                  85 (s)
81  Sister Dearest                        Dreamland-Ross             84 (s)05
82  Sizzling Suburbia                     CDI Home Video-Reynolds    86 (1)
83  Splashing                             Video Classics Phase II    86 (q)
84  Superstars and Superstuds I           Video Classics Phase II       ( )
85  Suzie Superstar II                    CalVist/Caballero-McCallum 85 ( )
86  Swedish Erotica #56: Tracy's Dilemma  Caballero                     ( )
87  Swedish Erotica #57                   Caballero                     ( )
88  Swedish Erotica #60                   Caballero                     ( )
89  Sweet Little Things                   Collector's Video          85 ( )
90  Tailhouse Rock                        Western Visuals            85 ( )
91  Talk Dirty to Me, Pt. III             Dreamland-Morehead         84 (s)02?
92  Those Young Girls                     Paradise Visuals-Kiddar    85 (s)
93 ?Those Young Nurses                    Western Visual                ( )
94  Tits 'n' Clits                        Hot 'n' Hard Video            ( )
95  Traci Lords                           Cinema Tech-Ingley         85 (s)
96  Traci Lords Quickie                   Vidco                         (s)
97  Traci Takes Tokyo                     Traci Lords Co.-Cartier    86 (s)
98  Traci's Fantasies                     Caballero                     (s)
99  Tracy Dick: Sexual Investigator       ?                             (s)
100 Tracy in Heaven                       Paradise Visuals           85 ( )02?
101 Two-Timing Tracy                      Video2000/Masterpiece-Mann 84 (s)
102 We Love to Tease                      Vidco-Carpenter            85 (s)
103 What Gets Me Hot                      Intropics-Mader            84 ( )
104 Wild Things                           Cal Vista-Alex DeRenzy     85 (q)06
105 Young and Restless II                 ?-McCallum                 85 (s)
106?Young Girls Do                        Collector's Video-Vosse    84 ( )

Scene Key:

     l-lesbian
   dpp-double pussy penetration   (Traci never did an anal scene)

Role Key: 

   (s)-starring role
   (f)-Featured (more than 1 scene, but not main star)
   (1)-cameo (single scene appearance)
   (c)-compilation of scenes by star
   (q)-quickie, or collection of quickies in which she appears in one quickie

Notes:

   01-scene(s) removed for re-released movie
   02-scene(s) re-shot with Taija Rae (?)
   03-film re-shot with Tracey Adams
   04-She's in an 3min clip at the end of the tape, not in the movie itself.
   05-recut to remove scene(s) and redistributed as "Back To Class" 1987
   06-scene(s) replaced with Elle Rio and re-released in 1986

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MAINSTREAM FILMS
Year  Title (Studio) - Role
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1988  Not Of This Earth (MGM/UA) - nurse (played by Beverly Garland in
                                   original 1957 production); only
                                   mainstream nude scene ever done
1989  Fast Food ()               - Dixie Love a sexy spy employed by
                                   Jim Varney
1990  Cry Baby ()                - Wanda, one of Johnny Depp's gang
                                   Only the New York Times critique didn't
                                   attach the obligatory phrase
                                   "former porn queen" or some variation
                                   thereof to Lords' name.
1992  The Nutty Nut ()           - Miss Tress, 'the ultimate French maid'
1993  Intent To Kill ()          - Vicki Stewart who fights off a gang of
                                   killers with her martial arts master
                                   boyfriend (Michael Foley)
19??  An Evening In Paris ()     -
19??  Hollywood Boulevard II ()  -
19??  A Killing Time ()          -
19??  Object Of Desire ()        -
199?  Skinner ()                 -

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HOME VIDEO (Direct-to-Video Productions)
Year  Film - Role
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1985  Foxy Boxing    - Round Girl
1990  Shock 'Em Dead - rock band member attacked by voodoo vampires
1991  A Time To Die  - a photographer wrongly accused of drug trafficking
1991  Boxing Babes   - as the Round Girl
1992  Warm Up With Traci Lords - exercise video
      Choreographed by Tanya Everett of the Presidential Council of Physical
      Fitness.  The first and only completely Non-impact "Jazzthetics"
      exercise system (The Cellulite Burner).
19??  Raw Nerve      -
19??  Laser Moon     - a rookie cop
19??  A Time To Die  -

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TELEVISION
Show                    Date  Network  Episode
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Wiseguys              10/18/88 CBS "Date with an Angel" played Monique
MTV Video Awards        ?/?/88 MTV accepted award for Guns 'N Roses
Late Night            4/18?/88 FOX re: former career
A Current Affair      10?/?/88 FOX re: former career
CNN/CBN?                ?/?/88     re: porn stars in straight films w/G. Lynn
Entertainment Tonight 6/10?/88
Entertainment Tonight  1?/?/89     re: porn stars gone legit
Inside Edition           ?/?/?
Charles In Charge       ?/?/?      played Charles' (Scott Baio) girlfriend
Married With Children 10/01/89 FOX played a dental assistant
Married With Children ??/??/?? FOX played an heiress who hires Al
The Pat Sajak Show    04/13/90     re: Cry Baby (?)
Larry King Interview  03/16/90     re: Cry Baby, former career
Superforce            01/19/91     played an alien
MacGyver              06/03/91     played a damsel in distress (one of three)
Larry King Interview  08/??/91     personal life, new movie
Hard Copy             11/11/91     Showing delayed due to Monday Night Football
Whoopi Goldberg       04/??/93     re: former career; helping teens
Tommyknockers         05/09/93 ABC Film adaptation of Stephan King's bestseller
                                    played Nacy the postmistress
Inside Edition        05/11/93     talks about former career
Tales from the Crypt  10/20/93 HBO Episode: Two for the Show
                                   She get strangled, stabbed, cut up in a
                                   bathtub with an electric knife, packed in
                                   a trunk, thrown off a train, and fed to
                                   a garbage disposal.
Highlander            10/23/93 FOX Plays a fortune teller

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MUSIC VIDEOS
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"Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" by Helix (uncensored or both?) ?  Sexy Shorts?
"Stuck In Wonderama Land" by Dramarama

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MUSIC ALBUMS (vocals)
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"Little Baby Nothing" on Manic Street Preachers by Generation Terrorists
"Somebody to Love" on album _Acid Eaters_ by the Ramones

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MAINSTREAM MAGAZINES and NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Magazine/Paper      Date/Issue   Description
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Model Magazine         ?/?
Us                     ?/?
Easy Reader          ?/?/86?     bio info
LA Times             ?/?/?
New York Post        ?/?/88      re: Not Of This Earth
Muscle and Fitness    03/88 C    cover (modeled under real name)
Max (Italian)    Gennaio/89 P    p158-163 mainly photos shot by Jeff Dunas
Muscle and Fitness    05/89 C    cover (modeled under real name)
Arena                 05/90
Spin                 07?/90 P    Picture in swimsuit
Esquire               08/90 P    Picture
Film Threat #2        02/92 7CI  Cover, Interview
Movieline             01/93 I    Interview at her home with photos
USA Today          01/28/93 I    interview
Prevue                03/93
TV Guide           04/10/93      re: Tommyknockers
Femme Fatales v1#4  sprg/93 CA17 Covergirl and article about B-Movie
                                 career 17 photos as well as biographical
                                 information
People             05/03/93      What's She Doing Now?
Esquire (German)      04/90 AI   "Vom Pornstar zur eisernen Jungfrau"
                                 some photos, 2 page interview
                                 Mainly stuff about "Cry Baby"

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ADULT MAGAZINES: Articles, Pictorials, and Reviews
Magazine              Date/Issue            Description
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Video-X v6#6            06/84
Video-X v6#7            07/84
Velvet                  07/84
Oui                     09/84 CP under the name "Pammy" listed as age:23
Club                    09/84 P  listed as "Rita"
Penthouse               09/84 P  Pet of the Month (age listed as 22)
Girls Wide Open #2       ?/?
Harvey                   ?/?  P
Swank                   10/84 P  "Karla" by Suze Randall
Video-X v6#10           10/84
Video-X v6#11           11/84
Adult Cinema Rev v4#12  12/84
Uncensored Vids&Movies  01/85
Video-X v7#1            01/85
Expose                  02/85
Call Girl               03/85 R2 'New Wave Hookers' review and photos
High Society            03/85    Star Quality and back cover
Stag                    03/85 A  up and coming porn stars article
Swank                   03/85 C  Coverslut & 2 double/1 full page photo
Video-X v7#3            03/85
Gentleman's Companion   04/85 P  listed as "Andi"
Adam Film World Guide   05/85 A[6/2]
Adult Cinema Rev v5#5   05/85
Cinema Blue             05/85
Exotic X-Film Guide     05/85
Teenaged Schoolgirls #2 05/85 P  several pages of explicit photos (Danish)
Oui                     05/85 P  in leather as "Pammy"
Nugget                  05/85 P  New star pictorial
Expose                  06/85    The Best of Blue Movie
High Society            06/85
Velvet                  06/85
Adult Cinema Rev Summer ??/85
Adam Film World         07/85
Adult Video             07/85
Exotic X-Film Guide     07/85
Blue Climax #30         ??/85    X-photos with Steve Dark and Hershel Savage
Cavalier                08/85
Cinema Blue             08/85
Penthouse               08/85 1  in Letters section
Adam Film World v10#12  09/95 1  12 questions for Traci
Cheri                   09/85 A  article about 'Battle of the Stars'
                                 (age listed as 22)
Penthouse               10/85 P  anonymous pictorial, "The Elevator"
Hustler                 10/85 R  'Perfect Fit' & 'Harlequin Affair'
Cavalier                11/85
Adam                    12/85
Hustler                 12/85 PA pictorial with Rambone & Pam Gilbert.
                                 also, 'Sex Fifth Avenue' article
Stag Presents           12/85
Adam                    01/86
Chic                    01/86 P  pictorial, "The Lady and the Tramp"
                                 (name on cover)
Expose                  01/86
Cinema Blue             02/86
High Society            02/86    Tracy Lord's X-Rated Workout
Hustler                 02/86 CFP cover, centerfold [14-page layout used
                                  as source of dfg gifs] and interview
                                  (age listed as 23) 
Adam                    03/86
Adam Film World         03/86
Expose                  03/86
Gentleman's Companion   03/86
Max                     03/86 C  strips off a spacesuit
Adam Film World v2#11   04/86 A[4/3]
High Society            04/86 F  centerfold of Big Boob Special issue
                                 Society Child of the Month (no age given)
Velvet Talks!           07/86 CP cover, pictorial with nude male
Cheri                   08/86 R2 "Porn's Ten Best Flicks Since '76"
                                 picture with review of 'Battle of the Stars'
                                 and picture with Lip Service column
Best of Cheri       Summer/86 P  Pictorial under real name
Juggs Presents Tracy     1986    Special Edition
           & Christy
Hottest Porn Stars #3    ?/86 R  Amber Lynn, Traci Lords, & Ginger Lynn are
                                 featured with not-quite explicit scenes from
                                 their movies.
High Society        Winter/86
Video Start Intim #4/87 08/87 R[?/10] Reviews and photos in this German mag
Adam Film World v12#3   01/88 R  'I Love You Traci'
High Society            01/88
Live!                   01/88 A  "What's New In Blue: Traci Returns"
                                  no picture
Leisure Concepts Catalog ?/88    Traci Exposed
Porn Star Annual Adam   04/88 A
  Film World Guide
Hustler                07?/88    Asshole of the Month
Premiere                09/88    re: Sex in Cinema
Club International?    11?/88 C  cover (article?)
Premiere                02/89    Exercise tape
Celebrity Sleuth         1990 P  Legal photos, including movie scenes
Best of Mayfair #10   01?/90? P  pictorial (listed as "Patricia" age 21)
                                 6 pgs, 13 shots.
Adam Film World Guide   03/90 P1 Adam Film World Star Description
Prude V3, #1, i9         ?/?       photo spread?
Prude V4, #3, i14        ?/?  CI cover, interview

   A - Article             I - Interview       "Article Title"
   C - Cover               P - Pictorial       'Film Title'
   F - Centerfold          R - Movie Review
   # - Number of photos    [# pics/# pages]

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MISCELLANEOUS
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COMIC BOOKS
Celebrity Comics Traci Lords Unauthorized Biography .............$5.95 09/92
Celebrity Comics Traci Lords #1 LTD Trading Card Version
   Limited to 450 issues comes with two trading cards ..........$10.00 08/93

TOYS
Inflatable doll and 5 minute masturbation video .........................(?)

PHONE SEX
The Ultimate Fantasy/Phone Sex from Traci Lords/(213)828-8591 ..........1985

FAN CLUB NEWSLETTER
The Official Traci Lords Fan Club (3 bulletins)

Subject of Ronnie Mack single, "I Love Traci Lords" ....................1986?

reputed to have a book to be published
rumored to have an album in the works (with 'major band' ?Axl Rose?)

Traci Lords has a piece in a book called _Wednesday's Children_          (?)
  written/compiled by Suzanne Sommers. Its a book about physically/
  emotionally abused children.

T-shirts
Mugs

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POSTERS
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???? Untitled                  #2061 OSP Publishing
                               Traci in black lingerie lying on the floor
19?? Out Of the Blue   (23x25)
1990 Ripped Blue Jeans (23x25) #1702 Photo by Sam Maxwell
                               Published and Distributed by O.S.P Publishing
                               1001 Monterey Pass Road
                               Montery Park, CA 91754
     Jean Jacket       (23x25)
1990 Traci Lords-Pose  (23x25) #PNT-151 Photo by Sam Maxwell
                               National Trends, Inc
                               120 E. Columbia Ave
                               Potomic, MI 48055
                               1-800-669-0099
19?? One 23x78 door poster

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CALENDARS
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Traci Lords Calendar    1990
Traci Lords Calendar    1991
Traci Lords Calendar    1992


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