From: dbrady@primenet.com (David E. Brady)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.brady-bunch
Subject: Re: Susan Olsen - porno !?!?   Uh, no.
Date: 1 Jun 1998 23:51:01 -0700

wollam@earthlink.net wrote:

> I recently heard that Cindy Olsen made a porno!  Anyone know anything
> about this?

Here's the relevant portion of the Adult Movie FAQ, compiled by the
regulars of rec.arts.movies.erotica and alt.sex.movies:

[ BEGIN ]

http://www.rame.net/faq/part6.html

26.2 Do the Brady Girls Swallow? [updated]

I don't know... maybe they spit, but I can tell you they've never done
porn... but appearing nude? Could be.

Some people swear up and down that Maureen "Marcia" McCormick appeared
nude, though they usually don't remember the movie. I asked Craig Hosoda
(author of the Bare Facts) and he doesn't think she did, but he did mention
the movie "Texas Lightning" in his book.

To cloud the waters a little more, someone sent me this in the e- mail...

   Craig's objection to "Texas Lightning" is that the scene he has in mind was
   "dark, hard to see". Nothing much to see with only home equipment. But
   Craig MISSED the bar scene, where it is not dark. Her nip-slip is merely
   very quick. But yes, Maureen McCormick's nipple was exposed.

So, the issue is cloudy. I can't seem to find Texas Lightning in my area
video stores, so I have come to rely on grainy vidcaps that people are kind
enough to send to me.

Here's the accompanying text from a poster from
alt.binaries.nude.celebrities whom I have come to trust:


   These are vidcaps attached to this message which came from the 1981 film,
   TEXAS LIGHTING - Although the shots were very brief, there WAS nudity with
   Maureen McCormick. Some of these stills were published in an issue of
   Celebrity Sleuth (and I recommend that magazine above all others -
   including THE BARE FACTS GUIDE - though, I, myself do not write for Sleuth
   and even Sleuth is not 100% reliable) These caps were done by yours truly
   and I do not alter or fake any vidcaps.

But, as we know, nudity does not equal hardcore porn in any aspect, anyway.
Susan "Cindy" Olsen was never in pornographic movies. Nor is she, as
according to another rumor that is widely circulated, dead. She never
committed suicide. And she was never in an adult video. And she's not
related to the Folger's coffee lady.

In a recent interview with Howard Stern, Susan denied she ever revealed her
body to the camera. Howard was understandably disappointed.

A new reader of a.s.m. (lemetro@io.org) pointed out this little tidbit
which I think does a pretty darned good job of explaining the "Cindy did
Porn" rumor...

   "About 10 years ago or so there was this crappy American show called
   "Divorce Court" in which B and C list actors played the various parties in
   divorce cases supposedly drawn from real life. In one of these Susan Olsen
   played a young woman who was attempting to divorce her abusive, sleazeball,
   etc., etc. husband.

   He had hooked her on heroin, blackmailed her and forced her to act in
   pornographic movies."

   "I suspect that someone, having just glanced at this show, couldn't
   separate art from reality and leapt to the wrong conclusion and the rumor
   that she had done porn rose from this."

I'm told Susan Olsen is now a DJ for an LA radio station paired up with
ex-MTV host and Blues Traveler video-posterboy, Ken Ober.

There have also been some fake pictures of Marcia floating around, and they
are just that, fakes... and poorly done ones at that. I have not seen any
vidcaps from the aforementioned "Texas Lightning."

[ END ]


Obviously, the section is slightly out of date since Olsen is no longer a
disc jockey at radio station KLSX-FM (97.1) in Los Angeles. However, I
still think it's safe to say this is an urban myth.

Some additional thoughts to ponder:

Some have said that 1970s-era porn actress Dorothy LeMay ("Taboo") bears a
resemblance to the adult Susan Olsen. Also, I've heard a story that Olsen
once helped a film-industry friend create sound effects for a
science-fiction themed porn film.

A couple of notes about the other actresses:

Eve Plumb played a teen-age prostitute in the "Dawn" TV movies and there's
a photo that constantly circulates which is frequently described as a nude
shot of Maureen McCormick. It's pretty obviously not McCormick, just some
other woman. I think this may be where the FAQ's confused reference to
"fake pictures of Marcia" comes from, though there's nothing to suggest
that the photo has McCormick's face attached to someone else's body.

Bottom line: The evidence (or lack of it) suggests pretty strongly to me
that this is a persistent urban myth that refuses to die.