I didn’t remember her or this film, even though it features Eric Roberts as a shock-jock who will do anything for ratings, which sounds like my kind of mediocre entertainment.
Her filmography is sort of fascinating, although it raises more questions than it answers. This was her first film and she had a career that basically went nowhere from 1996-2001. She had small roles in two cheapies, including this one, and appeared in one major film (Scream) in the challenging role of “cheerleader in bathroom.” She then disappeared from the biz for more than 20 years, but has recently reappeared in several indie projects.
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It’s always a good time for The Eric Roberts Watch, AKA “the quest for a thousand.”
Eric Roberts now has 900 acting credits, and another 206 “self” appearances. To put that in perspective, Gerard Depardieu, who has been required by French law to appear in every French film since the 1960s, has only 251 acting credits.
Among real actors, meaning the ones who get lines and are listed in the credits, the closest living actor to Roberts is probably James Hong, with 468.
Before Hong and Roberts came along, the champion was Charles Lane, the mean old guy who always tried to shut down the Hooterville Cannonball, with 383 credits, always playing the same grouchy character, usually from New England, although he was actually from San Francisco. As his IMDb bio states, “Lane made a comfortable acting niche for himself making life wretched for someone somewhere.”
Among his scores of cookie-cutter crank roles, Lane was in top form as the stage manager in Twentieth Century (1934); the Internal Revenue Service agent in You Can’t Take It with You (1938); the newsman in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939); the rent collector in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946); the recurring role of Doc Jed Prouty, in the “Ellery Queen” film series of the 1940s, and as the draft board driver in No Time for Sergeants (1958). Frank Capra, the famed director, utilized the actor’s services for nine of his finest films, including a few of the aforementioned plus Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and State of the Union (1948).
TRIVIA: Lane may have been the last survivor of the infamous San Francisco earthquake. He not only made it through the quake, but he was still alive 101 years later!
The all-time record for acting credits at IMDb is held by Bess Flowers, with 1,121, but she was basically an extra, a crowd-filler who rarely had a line, and was not often listed in the credits. Another in that category is Harry Strang, with 523.
Anyway, here’s Leonora Scelfo, thanks to Johnny Moronic:
Ghost nipples!
Johnny’s film clips are here
I looked around and could not find any higher-definition version of this film. I did FF through a VHS rip, and decided it was not worth my time.