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She was crowned Miss Ulster County for Miss America and was de-crowned (ala Vanessa Williams) for a 7 second scene in Bad Girl's Dormitory, wouldn't relinquish teh crown fought them and got nationwide publicity which took her from a stage actress to film actress.
She is currently making the rounds of film conventions, signing autographs and posters and such, all over the country, Chiller Theatre, Hollywood Collectibles, Big Apple and many more.
She's also signed to begin filming "Little Warriors" this year and a George Romero film in the fall of 2007.
She gained 2 PhD's, one in Psychology and on in Hypnotherapy (also had a stint as a professor of ASL at New York University)after losing partial hearing and working with the Deaf community created Access Deaf Consulting for which she has won numerous awards including the CA Governor's Distinguished Service Award, Media Access Awards and Aegis awards to name a few for her work as a technical advisor and producer in work such as Breaking Through with JoBeth Williams & Kellie Martin, Blue Rodeo with Ann-Margret & Kris Kristofferson, the TV show "ellen" and more including her own talk show Deaf Perspectives. She's created an all deaf children's choir "Bridges Sign Choir" and the L.A. Bridges Theatre Co. of the Deaf which has done numerous projects and some of the children in the choir appeared in Breaking Through as students.
She is also a member of the American Board of Disability Analysts, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and more (all info can be seen on her websites)
Dr. Delora, is just one of the many titles in her career including, "Queen of the B's" and recently an "Icon of Fright" (which she finds humorous since she only did a few horror related films, the rest were comedies and dramas)and the best of course was Emmy magazines "most rmarkable actor in Hollywood" an honor never before nor since bestowed upon an actor by Emmy magazine.
The movie Cleo/Leo in which she co starred was the film by Chuck Vincent which Blake Edwards used to base his movie "Switch" with Ellen Barkin & JoBeth Williams on and JoBeth's character was based on Jennifer's original character in the low budget version of this story.
Jennifer has played characters from hookers to nuns to psychologists and more.
At this point in her career she still works as a leading lady and character actress, and is enjoying having the opportunity to meet her fans at conventions in between film work. She is also working as a producer and writer of several films and TV projects.
She is now with Double Play Management
Tony Pellicone at 800 214 0812 and can be contacted for work in front of and behind the camera, technical advising, script requests and celebrity appearances for conventions and especially her work with many fundraisers including tennis and golf fundraisers.
She spends what little time she has in between riding her motorcycle, spending time with family and friends (new and old) and her dog Angel, an American Eskimo miniature who is also a licensed hearing dog for the Deaf, writing scripts and enjoying all the great benefits that she considers being lucky enough to be a constantly working actor allows her.
She's also proud to have had the opportunity to have worked with the likes of Ann-Margret,JoBeth Williams, Kellie Martin, Troy Donahue, Linda Blair, Kris Kristofferson and the wonderful stars she has become friends with from the celebrity autograph shows who are wondeful people. She adores Ann-Margret her motorcycle riding look alike)& Roger Smith who were so kind and close to her while working on Blue Rodeo and she has remained in touch with and close to her co workers and directors she's worked with. Jennifer's dream is to work in a film opposite Susan Sarandon, Ann-Margret, Cher and others she has admired, and especially those people tell her she looks like and should work with in some great quality fun films (but in her heart still loves doing low budget films and the fans that love them!).
"Going to the Emmy's every year is great - winning one would be fantastic!" she recently said in an interview.
She can be found all over the internet by Google and any other general search... "but", she warns "don't believe EVERYTHING you see or where to find her as people are using my name to get people to some pretty out there sites".
Reviews
Switch (1991)
Based on "Cleo/Leo" done in 1989 My role played by JoBeth Williams
As taken from the IMDb "Cleo/Leo": I portrayed the role on which JoBeth Williams role was based. A low budget romp, it was then taken and redone by Blake Edwards. Here is the quote from the page on Cleo/Leo and the review (saying it was better than this one) is attached (I personally loved this one and got a real kick out of seeing it brought from low budget to high budget and some (yikes) 7 years LATER I worked side by side WITH JoBeth teaching her sign for the TV movie "Breaking Through" as technical adviser and Co-Starring as Sister Anne in this based on a true life story.
you can check out this quote by going to my name : Jennifer Delora or to Cleo/Leo on the IMDb.
"Essentially the same story Blake Edwards released two years later ("Switch" (1991)) told by a cast of B-movie actors, scream queens and ex-porn stars. In my opinion it's actually the better of the two movies. Deeply flawed don't get me wrong, but far better then Edwards' go at the same subject.
Written and directed by Chuck Vincent (also well known for his XXX origins), "Cleo/Leo" is far bolder then most gender switching comedies. I think it must have grown out of Vincent's need to have a late night premium cable friendly T&A showcase that he could sell more so then any artistic drive. But for whatever the reasons may be, sexists Leo, trapped inside the desirable body of Cleo, goes farther then most and as a result actually ask more questions of him/her self then most. Side by side against it companions in the vary small genre of reincarnated sex change centered comedies this little movie is at times surprisingly unflinching, and funny to boot.
Don't get me wrong, as I said its flaws are many, and worse still this seldom re-released video is very hard to find. So don't kill yourself looking for it, and more importantly don't kill me if you find it disappointing. But it is a cute B-movie and worth the watching time if you some times like your comedies cheesy, cheap, and adolescent. "
funny thing is, when I worked with JoBeth and was in touch with her when I was in LA - I had never realized it because I hadn't seen the film in a long time so it's kind of funny, especially since my career in the 80's (I'm still working but the IMDb is not up to date), I was told I looked like her; when me met in 96, found it to be true and got it from a lot of people so it's humorous to me.
But if you liked this (by the way I'm not the XXX star I'm the 'scream queen mentioned above - just a note hehe) check out the very funny, silly low budget version... and yeah, I carry out a gun in this one, and dump the guy in the water, and get called a "Dyke" by him before chasing him with a gun my line "How would you like to function without any balls" as I point the gun to his crotch, chase him, shoot him, he dumps in the water and comes out - a woman ! .. lots of the same thing and those same 80's HAIRSTYLES yikes..
Enjoy
Jennifer Delora, PhD
Bad Girls Dormitory (1986)
Great info on Bad Girls Dormitory: but missing info
Heck, I'm giving it a 10 cuz I star in it as Lisa and because I can. It's really exactly as reviewed. But a romp nonetheless.
Only wanted to add that if you checked the IMDb & other sites you'd see that I've been extremely busy starring in films after that and then for ABC, CBS, TV and so forth. SO I didn't stop at the low budget genre that they were. Yes those fights were pitiful mostly because the other woman did not follow the choreography: i ended up so bruised and battered: her kicks to my stomach were real, and so forth. Every choreographed move that was a hit became a kick and the kicks became hits so she beat the crap out of me!! Lots of stories about it but hell, the movie gave me a career. If it wasn't for 7 seconds in the shower topless I wouldn't have been de-crowned from Miss Ulster County for Miss NY Miss America and gotten the calls for all the work I've done. So the publicity didn't hurt! Just had to watch it for a thing I'm doing at my old high school where they've studied horror films and the like for their film history classes and they studied mine (poor them) and I'm going there for a "Inside the ACtors Studio" type thing for the school and have to show scenes and talk about all those films including this one that not at the time, but later made me a name and I STILL all these years later have fans of all those films so they are bad to the bone, but at least in a humorous, Saturday night nothing better to do way.
ENJOY Jennifer Delora
Breaking Through (1996)
Thanks: I did the consulting to teach her how to act Deaf!
Glad you thought so.I think she was remarkable and the hardest worker.
We had a lot to do to have her go from a girl with no linguistic skills to the girl at the end. She was amazing.
JoBeth also gave a brilliant performance that she worked hard to have to speak and do ASL at the same time.
I also played the Nun: Sister Anne after being in so many lower budget not even 'b' films, it was great. See me on the IMDb!!
The kids in the classroom and the choir? my real all deaf kids choir "Bridges Sign Choir" in LA.
Keep watching and see other films I've done. Fred Gerber directed and he has also directed the award winning "Desperate Housewives" and more!!!
Working a lot and many projects still, but the IMDb isn't up on them all, I can't do everything you know!!
Jennifer Delora