Ursula Davis

Now, I'm not one of those people who constantly call attention to all the little known facts. Partly because it's alternately annoying or pathetic when people do that and try to make everyone else feel inferior, but mostly because when people do this they are really only calling attention to the fact that they know a lot of things that most people can get through life perfectly fine without knowing. Or to put it more simply, people who know all the trivia are probably trivial. However, I do like to do what I can to bring some recognition to people or things that in some way have made my life as a patron of esoterica more enjoyable.

This is Ursula Davis, whose mug has popped up in several films I have enjoyed in the past few months. She generally appears in Italian made movies of the sixties. The three I have seen her in so far have been Kong Island, Crypt of the Vampire and An Angel For Satan. Her list of film credits is fairly short, but then so is Tura Satana's. Quality, not quantity. She seems to always play the nice girl who is contrasted with a femme fatale. Here she is in what may be her greatest film, Kong Island, appearing at about 1:20. Kong Island weaves together a plot involving a mad scientist, mercenaries, gorillas who are radio controlled, a jungle girl, big sixties hairdos, dancing, a muscle man with glittering teeth, and of course Ursula. Unfortunately there are no midgets, but it's still a masterpiece in the Dementia Squad canon.