Tahnee, Raquel’s beautiful daughter, started off strong in Hollywood with a nice role in Cocoon, including a tiny bit of nudity done by a body double. That turned out to be her career highlight. She couldn’t get arrested in the USA, so like many other disgruntled American actresses, she took a shot at European cinema.
In her case, BAD European cinema. She made some real stinkers. The two films where she did nude scenes without a body double are rated 4.4 and 2.3 at IMDb. Night Train to Venice, the 2.3, is particularly awful. It stars Hugh Grant at his smarmiest in the beginning of his stammering, floppy-haired days. Malcolm McDowell just sort of hangs around in the shadows, acts mysterious and cashes his paycheck. I just watched the film, and still don’t know what it is about.
Tahnee herself reviewed it better than anyone else!
Just for fun, I extracted the last two minutes of the film “as is” to create the clip below. The (inept) love scene is intercut with some travelogue footage that I would normally cut out, but I thought you might enjoy seeing just how bad the film is. Mind you, this entire sequence is essentially an epilogue. The film’s alleged plot was complete, and there’s nothing left but what you see in the clip (all of which is unnecessary), which meanders into the closing credits.
I guess the director realized (1) that he forgot to show Tahnee’s breasts; (2) that he had paid for some cool helicopter footage of Venice, so he might as well use it; and (3) he needed a place to insert the lovely, lilting “Night Train” theme. My guess is that the composer was contractually obligated to come up with something, and probably spent all of two minutes to write down some perfunctory words and chords. It’s like those little songs that Mel Brooks made up on the spot when he was challenged by a talk-show host to create a song about any subject, using a certain musical genre.
Oh, that Night Train
It carries your dreams
It’s not like a day bus
Or even an afternoon ricksaw
Yeah, Night Train
Oooo, yeah!
OK, I made that up, but the real song is no better.
Anyway, back to Tahnee’s nudity …
Lethal Obsession, aka Der Joker (1987)
Night Train to Venice (1993)
Here are the clips: an HD video from Lethal Obsession, and the DVD clip from Night Train to Venice, as mentioned above.
As her career seemed to be winding down, Tahnee made a last-ditch effort to revive it by showing the works to Hef in 1995.
Not much work came out of it. She closed off her nudography as she had begun it – with a body double – in a film called Body and Soul.
When the 90s ended, she gave up the grind and retired completely into private life. She made a clean break. She really hasn’t been heard from in the quarter-century since since she walked away. She’s 63 now, and I don’t have any idea what she looks like these days.
If you are using Mr Skin as a resource on use of body doubles then be aware that they are often wrong. That site always assumes body double if you can’t see the face, but they don’t seem to realize that it is often hard to show a face and ass at the same time. They seem to expect the director to work some magic to make sure we know it isn’t a body double. I don’t think most directors worry about that too much.
Not only has Mr Skin had to retract the use of a body double on many occasions when they find out it wasn’t, I’ve also seen some instances where you can indeed clearly see the actress’ face at some point and they just missed it. Basically, they aren’t really trying to find out that hard. They just half ass it.
The woman in Body and Soul looks nothing like Tahnee.
The woman in Cocoon is at least the right shape, so it could be Tahnee, but if so, they chose a strange way to compose the shot.
I think Tahnee had another body-doubled sex scene in “Improper Conduct”. My fuzzy recollection is that her character disappears from the movie early.