Kitten Natividad

Standing just 5'3' tall and weighing 118 pounds, Kitten's measurements are a mind-boggling 44-25-35. Kitten Natividad was born Francesca Natividad on February 13, 1948 in Juarez, Mexico just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. Yes Natividad is her real last name, Kitten Natividad is a Latin gal! Her Mom was just 16 when Kitten Natividad was born, she gave birth at home with her grandma as midwife. Kitten Natividad was the first of nine siblings although only her sister Eva Garcia shares the same parents as her.

The summer before Kitten Natividad senior year,  Kitten Natividad worked for Stella Stevens at her home in Coldwater Canyon. Kitten Natividad scrubbed and cleaned, Stella taught her how to cook. She would give big parties, and Kitten Natividad would answer the door and have to wear a white uniform. Kitten Natividad met lots of people like Warren Beatty and Linda Evans. Seeing them by the pool Kitten Natividad thought, "this is fun I want to be a movie star".

Her first love came also during the senior year, Kitten Natividad family had always insisted on chaperons but this time they didn't so this was also her first sexual experience. She slept in separate rooms and late at night he would creep in through the window and they would make love. When they finally did elope it didn't work out and Kitten Natividad was back home.

Kitten Natividad went back to Los Angeles to work for Stella again. Kitten Natividad was there for about a year than took a trade school course and ended up working at IBM as a key punch operator. Making very little money and looking for other options, Kitten Natividad discovered that the sister of one of her neighbors made a living as a stripper and earned $300 a week which was twice as much as she made. Kitten Natividad took off her clothes, looked at herself in the mirror and said "well, I have a great body", so Kitten Natividad asked her for help and she introduced her to the club owner.

And so in 1969 Kitten Natividad made her dancing debut at a club in Pasadena called Gianone's. Kitten Natividad was so nervous and concentrating on what she was doing that she didn't notice any thing else. The crowd was howling and roaring and all Kitten Natividad knew that they were throwing money and she liked it! When Kitten Natividad finished she asked if they were clapping and they said that you could hear it two blocks away! Before long Kitten Natividad was making $600-700 a week including tips. Kitten Natividad went to an talent agency and auditioned all over the San Bernadino area working a couple clubs a night. The money was great and Kitten Natividad kept busy working long hours. The agency told Kitten Natividad that her original name Frances wouldn't work and because she was very shy, way back then, they gave her the name Kitten.

As Kitten her breakthrough came in 1973 with winning the Miss Nude Universe title in San Bernadino. Kitten Natividad was 25 but lied about her age because her agent said that the judges liked young women. Kitten Natividad was working at a club in Pasadena called the High Light, and Morganna (the Kissing Bandit) and her agent Sparky Blain came in. Sparky thought that Kitten Natividad had a good body and he asked her to enter the Miss Nude Universe contest. About forty five girls were in the contest, it wasn't fixed because she didn't know any of the judges and Sparky didn't talk to any of them. He had such faith in her and gave her the confidence to walk on the stage and feel like the most beautiful girl in the world. Even with all of that confidence Kitten Natividad still went crazy when she won!

Kitten Natividad switched permanently from go-go dancing to stripping and made a career decision to follow this road. After winning Miss Nude Universe, Sparky had her doing all sorts of publicity stunts, special appearances at clubs, college campus fraternities, other beauty contests, bikini walks and nude press conferences. All of these stunts helped to boost her career. The bikini walks were in central business districts at lunchtime with press interviews all across the country from New York to Los Angeles. And all of these events were centered around a club performance. As a headlining stripper she was the only girl on stage and it was all very new with the nudity. She would always give 100 percent to the job when a customer laid down a dollar she would go to him and gyrate as much as she could, it was hard work but this was her school to become a good stripper. She learned to give individual attention and picked up nuances from the other dancers and made them her own.

By the mid 70s Kitten Natividad was on top of the stripping scene but her next step was at hand. Kitten Natividad had a girlfriend named Shari Eubanks, who starred in Supervixens which was and still is one of Russ Meyer's greatest hits. Sherry and her worked at the Classic Cat on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and Kitten Natividad told Russ that she would be a great Russ Meyer girl, because of her big tits. Russ was looking for a girl to narrate his new film Up! so he came down to the club, and she found him quite attractive.

Kitten Natividad turned on the charm full tilt for Russ and got the part. His films were always tangled in story, but Up! was perhaps the weirdest film that Russ ever made. The plot had something to do with Hitler's daughter and sadomasochism. The first thing that you see on screen is her nude perched in a tree with a dubbed voice announcing that she is your guide to the story, the embodiment of the body. He was very tough on her during the shooting of her scenes, and after the endless takes she would be exhausted and sometimes in tears. When she realized that his perfectionism brought out qualities in her that she didn't know she had gave him 100%. Through the rest of the picture they cut back to her every ten minutes so she could explain just what's going on. Russ uses all sorts of different scenes, with lots of close-ups on her big breasts and other parts of her anatomy. Released in October 1976, UP! was not as successful as Supervixens.

Six months after Russ and Kitten Natividad were working together, she left George and moved in with him. He wanted her in a more prominent role in his next film, but first he wanted her to loose her heavy accent. She has always been proud of her heritage, proud of where she came from.  Russ hired dialect coach Robert Easton, who helped her get rid of the accent by learning a Southern accent. Once she got that down it was easy to overcome her accent. Russ paid him $100 an hour and they worked eight hours a day, she got very frustrated, but it all paid off.

With all this work Russ put her in the lead of his next film Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens. At first Russ had planned to use Ann Marie, the blonde stripper who is as close to Little Annie Fanny as anyone would ever see in the flesh, who's humongous 67 bust line would be a top candidate for a Meyer Girl. But after Kitten Natividad had tested for the sultry lead of Lola Langusta, Russ really liked her acting and couldn't find another girl who would work harder for the part or as willing to be nude all the time. Of course, Russ also had a big crush on her and they had a relationship that lasted 12 years. Together, with his friend and collaborator Roger Ebert, the script was reworked for her as the lead. They worked for over 12 hours on the script so she could play both Lola and Lavonia. She thinks that it worked out better than the original script would have been.

Ultravixens had all the makings for a hit but the film had a hard time getting distributed across the country.  Russ discovered that he would make more money on video sales than ticket sales. While Russ's films were on hold her modeling career took off. When she had been dancing in clubs there were many photographers who wanted pictures of her, at the time she thought it was good for extra money to model between sets. Little did she know that the pictures would be published and by 1977 there was an outpouring of pictorials on her. Kitten Natividad couldn't believe she was on the cover of so many magazines! This really paid off for her at work, because wherever she did work she got more money, she could earn over $1,000 a week when other girls were only making $50 a night.

Many of the photo spreads she worked on were steamy girl/girl shoots with many associates from strip clubs and Russ's films. Kitten did sessions with Candy Samples, Uschi Digard, Patty Plenty and many others. By the end of the 70's the level of stardom that she had achieved on the strip circuit demanded more elaborate and lavish shows. And here is where she came up with using a giant champagne glass in her act. She just got in and bathed on stage.  She used Bobby Darin's hit Splish Splash and had a lot of fun with her tits on stage jiggling and caressing them.  At the end of the performance she would let a couple lucky members from the audience dry her off with a towel.

After Russ she ended up in a lot of extra scenes in films, rock video's and features in adult movies. Kitten Natividad was the stripper at Sean Penn's bachelor party in September 1985, it was at the Roxy Nightclub on the sunset strip. When Harry Dean Stanton showed up late to the bash, Penn picked up her blouse and said "See what you missed?" and shoved Stanton's face into her cleavage.

In between acting jobs and other gigs she has been running her fan club, keeping healthy and young at heart. But for now she is not traveling or making many appearances.  She thinks that sexuality comes from within.  And she is still pursuing a career in films. Another thing on her agenda is to do a real autobiography. She'd really like to write her own life story, the real truth. She's been with men that no one would believe and had some pretty wild experiences. She thinks it would make quite a story. And she is certainly right.