Thanks for this great upload. Arcadia Lake is not forgotten. She's considered one of the top 15 dead porns stars of all time to this day by some along with Erica Boyer.
She was one of the adult film stars I never knew about. Granted my ability to get any kind of adult films, or even magazines was pretty slim. I mentioned before that some friends and I had gone out exploring and we had found a abandoned trailer/mobile home out in the woods. Inside there were a few stacks of adult magazines. OUI, Swank, Velvet, Hustler, High Society, Penthouse, a few Playboys, and one other magazine called Swedish Erotica. That's where I learned the names of stars like Seka, Annette Haven, Kay Parker, Gloria Leonard, Juliette Anderson aka Aunt Peg, Shauna Grant, Linda Wong, and others. Later when I got older, 18 to be specific, we had a few Adult Stores. One in particular had "Booths" in the back. Some of which had holes cut in some of the walls. At the time I had no idea what or why those were there. My buddy, on his 18th birthday found out the "hard" way. I had promised to take him to the one on South 13th street. I had gone back a couple times but it was nasty. Anyways I was looking at the assortment of smoking tools when my friend came out white as a 👻Ghost👻. He grabbed my arm and said "We're leaving! NOW!!" He literally ran to his car. I ran after him, got into the car and I asked, "WTF dude!?!?!" To which he replied, "I was inside watching a movie when I looked down and sticking through the hole in the a wall was a erect dick with a $20.⁰⁰ bill attached to it with a rubber band. I started laughing my *ss off until I saw how freaked out he really was. At that point the frequency of going there dropped a LOT!! Before the internet came into existence places like that were one of the few places you could get videos without feeling like everyone was judging you. At the 📼📼video📼store📼📼, I'd always end up with a really hot girl at the check out. Walking up with a couple of movies like Halloween, Rambo, Friday the 13th, and say Forrest Hump or Batman and Throbbin` was pretty embarrassing when your 19-21 years old.
A lot of these classic P stars especially from the 70s have figured out how to disappear though... And there's always rumors and legends made up about them.
Arcadia Lake/Michelle Carpenter was born in 1957, not 1958. The woman that died it NY was not her. Capenter was her married surname, and she married her husband after Arcadia/Michelle stopped making movies. Typicial amateur internet 'researcher' putting incorrect info out there. I'm referring who added it to IMDb and not this video, BTW. She was last known to be staying in a flop house in LA around 1982. This is probably one mystery that will that will remain as one.
I think if she were still alive she would have contacted Eric by now. As for him, he may not want to reveal that’s she’s still living (her privacy). Michelle was so pretty.
Thanks for another superb video. For me, Arcadia is the best thing about Debbie does Dallas, and she always had a wonderful sense of evanescence in her performances. Wasn't familiar with either her mysterious disappearance, nor even her relationship with Edwards. Merci mille fois!
2:46 "even when Edwards found out about her addiction"... ??? what addiction ??? never mentioned anything about an addiction up to this part.. or did I miss something???
someone, everyone, pumps out these videos and doesn't proof read or get someone else to read the vid. and catch the lack of complete threads and infor.
It's interesting that she played in 'Debbie does Dallas', because Bambi Woods starred in it and she disappeared also. You should do a documentary on her also. Then there's the adult film actress who was the subject of the movie [based on a true story] called 'Star 80.' I can't remember what her name was, she was murdered by her husband or ex-husband.
Dorothy Stratten was not an adult actress, but she was a Playboy centerfold and Playmate of the Year. She did a couple of movies and appeared in a few TV series. She was a rising star when her jealous husband murdered her.
You're confusing Dorothy Stratten (Playboy Playmate) with Shauna Grant who met a similar demise. The latter committed suicide. The former was a murder/suicide. PBS had a docu in the late 80s early 90s on Grant. I remember Jerry Butler & Ron Jeremy were some of the featured interviewees.
Don't wanna be cynical, but I have heard and seen too many of such disappearances and those all point to the partner murdering and disposing of the body.
Nope. Eric Edwards wouldn't do anything of the like. He went out of way to help get sober and her life in order. I've never heard anyone that knew him say a bad word about him. She started hanging out with addicts, relapsed, left him and was last known to be living in a flop house in LA in around 1982. He was later told by a man that she overdosed, and that man was with her when it happened. It will probably never known what happened to her for sure.
Sad, and a bit creepy, for her to disappear like that. I suppose when you want to disappear, you can do those times. Either that or she's passed, and she is little known, so it gets swept away.
She was quite a girl. She looked like she loved the industry. I'd like to know more about her disappearance,maybe if there was interviews w/ family members?
Yup....in 1988 she was part of a compilation my buddy found amongst his dad's porn collection hidden behind his stereo system....I was 14 going on 15....she was in the first scene and I did this: 😳 lol
Arcadia was very sexy and natural in her performances. I heard Eric/Rob's version of their life together on another podcast and he also discussed his volatile relationship with Renee Summers and I'm starting to believe that there is definitely something off about her "demise". I guess we can only speculate and enjoy her body of work...or play😉.
You really should make videos on male adult stars. I'd love to know the history of one "R. Bolla", who did both mainstream and adult films, but which came first?
edwards killed her more then likely. or she died in his presssence and he got rid of her. porn star past and past boyfriend is no reason to go into the witniess protection program and completely disappear.
I’ve watched a few of your where are they videos and the number of times you’ve posited that they could have faked their own death leaves me in stitches. Nobody does this. Nobody did this. Why? Because it’s expensive, time consuming and the people you’re talking about are mostly fucked up druggies, alchies, suffering from mental and physical trauma, with very little money and there is no way they are gonna be able to go traipsing around the country, getting death certificates, bribing county clerks, paying for fake cemetery plots, whatever. You’re living in your own fantasy world so stop including this in your stories.
it's like a lot of vids.jumping to some conspiracy theory as an "explanation". often, there is no explanation. it's like why people sometimes do really bad stuff to others. We WANT to believe there an honest explanation for their behaviour. No, there isn't. They just have NO empathy chip in their "Motherboard" and were born that way. Seen it........too often.
It depends on how you define "mainstream" success -- something that becomes part of the zeitgeist at the time is considered mainstream. In that era, it was one of those movies that everyone seemed to have watched -- kind of like Deepthroat.
This is ridiculous to think this is any kind of mystery. She was a huge drug addict and it killed her. Eric Edwards helped her get sober and she decided she didn't want that anymore. She didn't go off anywhere to some alternative world completely healthy life. She did as much as Elvis Presley did!
OMG! I LOVED this dark and dusky beauty with such a smoking tight body and wish she had done more without Eric. Alas, she fell prey to the same fate as so many of her peers of the time. Such a loss.
@@totigerus Those were descriptive ads for the live sexual acts in the theatre, they were not film ads. The 1st poster clearly says, Live Couples Acts. The marquee says, Hottest Live Acts in the US, Live Nude Girls.
Thanks for this great upload. Arcadia Lake is not forgotten. She's considered one of the top 15 dead porns stars of all time to this day by some along with Erica Boyer.
She was a true natural beauty.
She was one of the adult film stars I never knew about. Granted my ability to get any kind of adult films, or even magazines was pretty slim. I mentioned before that some friends and I had gone out exploring and we had found a abandoned trailer/mobile home out in the woods. Inside there were a few stacks of adult magazines. OUI, Swank, Velvet, Hustler, High Society, Penthouse, a few Playboys, and one other magazine called Swedish Erotica. That's where I learned the names of stars like Seka, Annette Haven, Kay Parker, Gloria Leonard, Juliette Anderson aka Aunt Peg, Shauna Grant, Linda Wong, and others. Later when I got older, 18 to be specific, we had a few Adult Stores. One in particular had "Booths" in the back. Some of which had holes cut in some of the walls. At the time I had no idea what or why those were there. My buddy, on his 18th birthday found out the "hard" way. I had promised to take him to the one on South 13th street. I had gone back a couple times but it was nasty. Anyways I was looking at the assortment of smoking tools when my friend came out white as a 👻Ghost👻. He grabbed my arm and said "We're leaving! NOW!!" He literally ran to his car. I ran after him, got into the car and I asked, "WTF dude!?!?!" To which he replied, "I was inside watching a movie when I looked down and sticking through the hole in the a wall was a erect dick with a $20.⁰⁰ bill attached to it with a rubber band. I started laughing my *ss off until I saw how freaked out he really was. At that point the frequency of going there dropped a LOT!! Before the internet came into existence places like that were one of the few places you could get videos without feeling like everyone was judging you. At the 📼📼video📼store📼📼, I'd always end up with a really hot girl at the check out. Walking up with a couple of movies like Halloween, Rambo, Friday the 13th, and say Forrest Hump or Batman and Throbbin` was pretty embarrassing when your 19-21 years old.
you'd be perhaps surprised even today at the number of people that pass on and there's no record, no one looking, no legacy. it happens.
Thank you for posting this. It's true.
A lot of these classic P stars especially from the 70s have figured out how to disappear though... And there's always rumors and legends made up about them.
Asian mother may have disowned her daughter for doing porn.
and listed as c19
But let’s find every single person who sold Matt perry drugs.
Arcadia Lake/Michelle Carpenter was born in 1957, not 1958. The woman that died it NY was not her. Capenter was her married surname, and she married her husband after Arcadia/Michelle stopped making movies. Typicial amateur internet 'researcher' putting incorrect info out there. I'm referring who added it to IMDb and not this video, BTW. She was last known to be staying in a flop house in LA around 1982. This is probably one mystery that will that will remain as one.
She was Eric Edwards' girlfriend and (sadly) died of a heroin overdose in the 80s.
It's not a mystery. It's mystery when someone who isn't a huge heroin addict and is living a healthy life disappears. So the opposite of this.
I think if she were still alive she would have contacted Eric by now. As for him, he may not want to reveal that’s she’s still living (her privacy). Michelle was so pretty.
Wow!What a beauty!I'll have to look up some of her movies!Still waiting for Jessie St.James!You may have done her already?
Yes, she's really beautiful. I haven't made one on Jessie St.James yet, but I will be. 👍
@@RetroGlamor What about both Nina Hartley & Linda Wong THEMSELVES TOO AS WELL OKAY.
One lady I never knew about myself, so many to discover; great find for me. Here, one again, Gloria Lenard.
Wow, this is a top-notch video. just subbed.
Please do one on the 'death' of Lisa Deleeuw, who some say is still alive.
Thanks for your kind words about the video and channel, and your activity with various comments. You definitely know your stuff 👍
Thanks for another superb video. For me, Arcadia is the best thing about Debbie does Dallas, and she always had a wonderful sense of evanescence in her performances. Wasn't familiar with either her mysterious disappearance, nor even her relationship with Edwards. Merci mille fois!
No problem, thanks for your support. 👍
"Unemployed musician boyfriend persuaded her to try it....". Well, that's that.
Yes, I included that in my script without passing judgement, but you obviously sensed the vibe of my point. 👍
I was at work and drove a young lady with her own tools: "So, what's the boyfriend on the couch's name"? If one is working the other isn't!!
2:46 "even when Edwards found out about her addiction"... ??? what addiction ??? never mentioned anything about an addiction up to this part.. or did I miss something???
someone, everyone, pumps out these videos and doesn't proof read or get someone else to read the vid. and catch the lack of complete threads and infor.
It's interesting that she played in 'Debbie does Dallas', because Bambi Woods starred in it and she disappeared also. You should do a documentary on her also. Then there's the adult film actress who was the subject of the movie [based on a true story] called 'Star 80.' I can't remember what her name was, she was murdered by her husband or ex-husband.
Dorothy Stratten
Dorothy Stratten was not an adult actress, but she was a Playboy centerfold and Playmate of the Year. She did a couple of movies and appeared in a few TV series. She was a rising star when her jealous husband murdered her.
@@michaelj.campagna404 Oh yeah I forgot, and used the wrong term.
@@mook2478 Yes, that's the name.
You're confusing Dorothy Stratten (Playboy Playmate) with Shauna Grant who met a similar demise. The latter committed suicide. The former was a murder/suicide. PBS had a docu in the late 80s early 90s on Grant. I remember Jerry Butler & Ron Jeremy were some of the featured interviewees.
Don't wanna be cynical, but I have heard and seen too many of such disappearances and those all point to the partner murdering and disposing of the body.
😢yep
Nope. Eric Edwards wouldn't do anything of the like. He went out of way to help get sober and her life in order. I've never heard anyone that knew him say a bad word about him. She started hanging out with addicts, relapsed, left him and was last known to be living in a flop house in LA in around 1982. He was later told by a man that she overdosed, and that man was with her when it happened. It will probably never known what happened to her for sure.
@@GAF6921 good enough.
It’s likely. Either the partner or someone else. She didn’t just walk away.
@@GAF6921 what is a flop house?
Very odd that the guy wasn't a suspect in the disappearance
She was gorgeous.🥰 Thanks for the info.👍🏽 I’m about to look her up now.😏
Enjoy. 😃
Bro I NEED TO SEE LILLY MARLENE!!!
She was absolutely stunning..
Sad, and a bit creepy, for her to disappear like that. I suppose when you want to disappear, you can do those times. Either that or she's passed, and she is little known, so it gets swept away.
I'd really like to think that she is still alive.
You know there was a lot of the same talk about Jim Morrison after he died. you never know...
It's weird how people can just vanish into the ether never to be seen or heard from again.
Arcadia Lake was gorgeous. 🥰
She was quite a girl. She looked like she loved the industry. I'd like to know more about her disappearance,maybe if there was interviews w/ family members?
Anyone remember Taija Rae?
Yup....in 1988 she was part of a compilation my buddy found amongst his dad's porn collection hidden behind his stereo system....I was 14 going on 15....she was in the first scene and I did this: 😳 lol
She was so fine .. so natural and soft and her face was straight up beautiful.
@jatodd3746 do you remember Cyndee Summers, adult movies actress from 1970's and '80's?
@jatodd3746 what about Cyndee Summers?
They don't want to be found.
only film i saw one of her scenes was Debbie does dallas. she was quite a beauty
Check out some of the others I mention.. she's even better in those films.
@@RetroGlamor ok
@@RetroGlamor I wish I knew where I could find HQ version of her movies.
She's been 66 today.
Arcadia was very sexy and natural in her performances. I heard Eric/Rob's version of their life together on another podcast and he also discussed his volatile relationship with Renee Summers and I'm starting to believe that there is definitely something off about her "demise". I guess we can only speculate and enjoy her body of work...or play😉.
They're all alive, just bored and moved on to other things. It's like Roberta Pedon, totally alive even though Google says she isn't! 🤷♂
She was a real beauty.
2:47 what addition exactly? Three months for detox?
Heroin, and then methadone.
It's always fishy when the boyfriend is the last to see a woman & nobody hears from them ever again.
Great video. Will you be doiyvideos on male actors? If so, I’d like to request a video about Cal Jammer.
Wrong channel Cecil.
Blew his brains out.
I'd read that she died of a heroin overdose in 1991, but who really knows
yeah, that story is everywhere. but the source of that info is eric edwards, the sleeze-bag heroin-addict boyfriend.
As I explore in the final stages of the video, the evidence for that is scant. I personally think she is still alive and doing well.
I don’t think Edwards did anything to her. I think she OD’d in early nineties and her druggie friends didn’t report it. hope she’s still alive. 🙏
Maybe she just quit and change her name
You really should make videos on male adult stars. I'd love to know the history of one "R. Bolla", who did both mainstream and adult films, but which came first?
Maybe I will... the list of female stars is huge though, and I am focusing the channel there to be honest.
Someone in her circle murdered her and that's why she disappeared or gave her drugs she OD on so the same thing
What about Shauna Grant , I would like to see a bio on her
Sad story
edwards killed her more then likely. or she died in his presssence and he got rid of her. porn star past and past boyfriend is no reason to go into the witniess protection program and completely disappear.
Bingo
I’ve watched a few of your where are they videos and the number of times you’ve posited that they could have faked their own death leaves me in stitches. Nobody does this. Nobody did this. Why? Because it’s expensive, time consuming and the people you’re talking about are mostly fucked up druggies, alchies, suffering from mental and physical trauma, with very little money and there is no way they are gonna be able to go traipsing around the country, getting death certificates, bribing county clerks, paying for fake cemetery plots, whatever. You’re living in your own fantasy world so stop including this in your stories.
it's like a lot of vids.jumping to some conspiracy theory as an "explanation". often, there is no explanation. it's like why people sometimes do really bad stuff to others. We WANT to believe there an honest explanation for their behaviour. No, there isn't. They just have NO empathy chip in their "Motherboard" and were born that way. Seen it........too often.
Edwards killed her IMO
he killed her.
She was probably murdered for some reason
Debbie Does Dallas was NOT a mainstream success. it WAS in the zeitgeist and very well KNOWN, for a porn film. doesn't make it a mainstream success.
It depends on how you define "mainstream" success -- something that becomes part of the zeitgeist at the time is considered mainstream. In that era, it was one of those movies that everyone seemed to have watched -- kind of like Deepthroat.
Ashlyn gere please
I requested her too and this guy hasn't done one on her.
The 90s should be off-limits!
@darrint3573 she was the best I wonder what she looks like now
@@curragh4635 Hoping she hasn't gone "Wildenstein." ehe
Jade Wong, Desiree West and Mai Lin please.
This is ridiculous to think this is any kind of mystery. She was a huge drug addict and it killed her. Eric Edwards helped her get sober and she decided she didn't want that anymore. She didn't go off anywhere to some alternative world completely healthy life. She did as much as Elvis Presley did!
OMG! I LOVED this dark and dusky beauty with such a smoking tight body and wish she had done more without Eric. Alas, she fell prey to the same fate as so many of her peers of the time. Such a loss.
I personally think she is still alive.
"Lake and Edwards were deeply in love"....meanwhile they effing other people for money..."Love", Okay then.
Who is narrating this? Sounds like Jared Harris
I thought it was Richard Atenborough.
HEARD THE NAMEE BEFORE BUT THATS ALL.
1:22 Was there really a movie named "Rape In The High Rise"?
Not to my knowledge - unless you are thinking of Cronenbergs's Shivers or Wheatley's High Rise.
@@MauditePart So then what is that poster at 1:22?
@@totigerusGood eye! A book or performance, perhaps?
@@totigerus Most likely the title of one of the Live Act's Show's, like Cops and Rubbers that's on the end.
@@totigerus Those were descriptive ads for the live sexual acts in the theatre, they were not film ads. The 1st poster clearly says, Live Couples Acts. The marquee says, Hottest Live Acts in the US, Live Nude Girls.
wow, i really couldn't care less.
It wasn't a complete waste as you've confirmed that you're an ass-hat.