{"id":3103,"date":"2012-05-29T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2015-07-27T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:33:09","slug":"who-was-kitty-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/performers-directors\/who-was-kitty-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was… Kitty Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kitty<\/a>
Kitty Swan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As her real name was Kirston Svanholm, I’m guessing she was Danish or Swedish. Was she a model? Very likely. Was she a singer? \u00a0Apparently so. \u00a0Was she in Eurocult films? Most certainly. Beyond that, however, the woman is a mystery. Oh, apart from the fact that she shares her name with a popular lighting fixture from the swinging sixties!<\/p>\n

Most of her roles were tiny and often uncredited. Her first part seems to have been as ‘Girl in Shower’ in Alessandro Blasetti’s Io, io, io… e gli altri<\/strong> (65), but after that she started popping up all over the place. She has a tiny part as one of the nubile female assassins in Deadlier than the Male<\/strong>, and appeared in other Eurospy films like The Big Blackout<\/strong> (Perry Grant, agente di ferro<\/em>, 66) and Nazi SS<\/strong> (Borman<\/em>, 66). One of her more prominent performances at this time – in terms of press coverage at any rate – was in Franco Prosperi’s The Professional Killer<\/strong> (Tecnica di un omicidio<\/em>, 66), which garnered a considerable amount of attention in publications like the UK Continental Film Review (which featured several pictures of Ms. Swan and her co-star, Franco Nero).<\/p>\n

In 1968, she played the title role in Ruggero Deodata’s Gungala la pantera nuda<\/strong>, one of the first of the rather peculiar ‘Jungle Girl’ films that were briefly popular at the time. Carrying on in the same vein, she was the female lead in a couple of Manuel Cano films, King of the Jungle<\/strong> (Tarz\u00e1n en la gruta del oro<\/em>, 70) and Tarzan and the Treasure of the Emerald Cave<\/strong> (Tarz\u00e1n y el arco iris<\/em>, 72). The shooting of the former, in Florida, was marred by an accident in which Kitty and her co-star Steve Hawkes were badly burned – they were tied to wooden stakes when some gasoline soaked leaves caught fire – causing them to spend some months in hospital receiving skin grafts.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, these turned out to be her last performances on film or television, and there’s no information at all on her post-cinema career. If anybody knows anything more about the elusive Ms. Svanholm, please let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just who the hell was Kitty Swan? The simple answer to this, as far as I can figure, is that nobody seems to know all that much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[324,1212,7],"tags":[1015,1016],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}