Edwina Beth Williams is an American television and film actress who is best known for her acting work in the films of Russ Meyer, to whom she was married from 1970 to 1975.
Williams at the 62nd Academy Awards, 1990
Russell Albion Meyer was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor. He is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful sexploitation films that featured campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women, such as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!. Meyer often named Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) as his definitive work.
Meyer in 1996 (photo by Roger Ebert)
Promotional shot for Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Meyer (left) and Roger Ebert in 1970
Meyer's gravestone, located in the Stockton Rural Cemetery in Stockton, California