{"id":33131,"date":"2013-08-24T20:39:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T20:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=33131"},"modified":"2017-04-13T00:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T00:08:27","slug":"haji-an-actress-featured-in-cult-films-by-russ-meyer-dies-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=33131","title":{"rendered":"Haji, an Actress Featured in Cult Films by Russ Meyer, Dies at 67"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haji, an Actress Featured in Cult Films by Russ Meyer, Dies at 67<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2013-08-17<\/p>\n

Daniel E. Slotnik<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Haji<\/a> [Barbarella Catton], a voluptuous actress who played one of three homicidal go-go dancers in Russ Meyer\u2019s<\/a> 1965 cult film \u201cFaster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!<\/a>,\u201d died on Aug. 9 in Southern California<\/a>. She was 67.<\/p>\n

Her death was confirmed by the dancer and actress Kitten Natividad<\/a>, a friend, who said she did not know the cause. She said Haji had high blood pressure and heart problems in recent years and was taken to a hospital after falling ill at a restaurant in Newport Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Haji, a brunette of Filipino and British descent, met Meyer, the celebrated B-movie<\/a> director, in the mid-1960s while she worked in a strip club in California<\/a>. He cast her as the lead in his biker movie \u201cMotorpsycho<\/a>\u201d (1965) even though she had no acting experience…<\/p>\n

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Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n