The Rialto Report: Documentary Archives for Adult Films

12th September 2021

By its fourth year, Adult Video News (AVN) had evolved from an 8-page newsletter to a glossy magazine with over 80 pages per issue.

5th September 2021

Elroy Brandy shot some of the most notorious Avon films for Phil Prince in the 1980s – as will as films for Gerry Damiano and Cecil Howard.

29th August 2021

Did Dolly Sharp, one of the stars of Deep Throat (1972), have another life as the Hollywood & Broadway star?

22nd August 2021

Who was Dolly Sharp, one of the stars of Deep Throat (1972)? The Rialto Report looks for answers.

15th August 2021

By its fourth year, AVN had evolved from an 8-page newsletter to a glossy magazine with over 80 pages an issue.

8th August 2021

In 1978, Aldo Ray, a Hollywood star who had appeared with Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and Rita Hayworth, made a porn film.

1st August 2021

When the Mitchell Brothers opened the wildest live sex in their empire, they turned to one person to headline: adult film star, C.J. Laing.

25th July 2021

An unpublished, candid, revealing, late-night conversation with west coast adult film star, Lesllie Bovee, from 1977.

18th July 2021

We look back at Adam Film World magazine in 1987, and the life and legacy of Carl Esser, the magazine’s editor that year.

27th June 2021

Porsche Lynn, part 2 – from adult film stardom in America and Europe to BDSM and the life of a dungeon mistress.

20th June 2021

Porsche Lynn, part 1 – from stripping at Cinema X in Michigan to adult films with Reuben Sturman and Lenny Burtman in California.

13th June 2021

Rare pictures of adult film star George Payne, and his current day reaction to his first ever interview, in The Advocate back in 1973.