Lizzy Carter embarked on her acting journey in a manner akin to many others before and after her. In 1946, born aboard a drifting Junk near Portsmouth, England, her birth was a foreshadowing of a childhood spent sailing the seas with her parents. During her early years, tragedy struck when their sailboat was sunk by a Japanese gunboat, engaged in combat and unaware that homeland had already surrendered.
Lizzy and her parents were able to survive on a life raft, drifting for ten days before making it to a remote island. The island was both a blessing and a curse, as the survivors had food, shelter and fresh water, but the island was inhabited by a tribe of cannibals who had taken them captive. Lizzy’s parents became a cannibal nosh. Luckily for Lizzy, the cannibals were saving her for a special meal to celebrate the life of WC Fields, when she was rescued by missionaries, who traded a case of Spam and a box of sparklers for her.
With her parents gone, Carter was taken to a mission and raised by a half-witted, monkey chattering, Mongolian hunchback who fed her a steady diet of banana gruel and an occasional Marzipan. The hunchback taught her four languages, five if you count monkey chatter, and also introduced her to acting. Lizzy and the hunchback would put on plays and perform for the locals. Lizzy returned to the States for her last two years of high school, where she was voted "Most Talented" and " Most likely to throw feces."
Upon graduating college, on a whim, she auditioned and won the role of Prudence, the lead in the Long Island lensed nudie roughie, ONE SHAMEFUL WEEKEND (1966).
PLOT: Against her better judgement, Prudence accepts to go on a blind date with Harry. The evening starts well with dinner and dancing, but when the couple is joined by Harry’s three buddies, Tom, Dick and Roscoe, Prudence spends a weekend at Harry’s cabin, against her will, with the four inebriated louts, who use her as a sex toy for their perverted pleasures.
Grim in all respects, ONE SHAMFUL WEEKEND is tough sledding.
Carter then starred in THE WELCOME WAGON WANTON (1968), playing a suburban divorcee who takes it upon herself to welcome the newcomers to the neighborhood in her own special way.
Carter then made the jump from sexploitation to pure exploitation as a tough-talking gum-chewing car-jacking thugette in UNCHAINED ANGELS (1968).
Director Reece Bradford: . . . Liz was wonderful to work with, she brought a lot more nuance to her role of Twiggy than it required. I thought that with the right guidance she could become a major star. The only issue with directing Liz would be that out of the blue while acting she would relapse into monkey chatter. It might just be a line or two, and she wouldn't realize that she was doing it. But soon she'd be back on track like it didn't happen.
Fate had other plans in store for Carter as this would be her last film role for almost a decade.
Carter fell in love and married a hardware store owner in Glendale, CA.
So instead of selling sex by playing tramps and bikers she was now selling tools like clamps and pliers.
The last Carter was seen was for a small role as a crab shack waitress in the 1977 disaster epic TYPHOOEY.
PLOT: The US navy is testing a new bomb in the Pacific Ocean. The bomb triggers a massive underwater earthquake, which propels a giant typhoon towards California.
One of the few disaster films not produced by Irwin Allen, TYPHOOEY, was from the brain of Theodore McGregor, who was basically a low budget Irwin Allen, producing RICHTER SCALE 9.9 (1975), WILDFIRE (1977) aka WHAT IN BLAZES?, HAILSTORM: ICE PELLETS OF DOOM (1981) and THE DAY THAT THE EARTH BOTH FROZE AND BURNED AT THE SAME TIME (Made for TV 1983). McGregor would pass away from a fatal excess of ring around the collar stains while prepping his last film.
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