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Alice Arno

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Comely, buxom, and shapely redhead stunner Alice Arno was born Marie-France Broquet on June 29, 1946 in Poland. The daughter of French naturist parents, Alice had no issues pertaining to nudity, and was justifiably proud of her exquisitely voluptuous body. After initially establishing herself as a glamour model (she posed for such notable photographers as Roland Carre and Serge Jacques and was featured in magazines from all over the world), Arno made her film debut in an uncredited bit role in 1967. Alice went on to do small parts in mainstream movies and more substantial roles in down'n'dirty low-budget exploitation fare throughout the 1970's. She's perhaps best known for acting in a handful of racy pictures for legendary Spanish maverick Jesús Franco. Arno acted in several films with her actress sister Chantal Broquet and was often in demand to shoot steamy scenes to spice up other directors' pictures. In addition, Alice also worked informally on various movies not only as an on-set photographer and continuity person, but also handled costume and make-up duties as well. Arno called it a day as an actress in 1979.
- IMDb mini biography by: woodyanders

Sister of Chantal Broquet.
Since her family had a business that sold and imported artifacts from Latin America, Arno worked for the family firm in between acting assignments.
Arno (who was raised in a family of nudists) worked as a nude model (posing for Pop, Men, Topfilm...) when she began her film career in 1969 at the age of 22.
Arno became one of the most popular figures of European exploitation film, working for Eurociné and for Robert de Nesle's Comptoir Français de Productions Cinématographiques.
Arno appeared in ten films with her sister Chantal Broquet, who also worked as a model and actress in low-budget European film productions.

What embarrasses me most in films where I have to show myself naked are the erotic scenes with boys: it's not always very funny... The contact with a boy itself isn't embarrassing, but I always ask myself what his reaction will be... and how it will go. Otherwise, I'm relatively laid back no matter the scene to play.
A nude photoshoot is very different. There is much less action in the nude photography. You are limited to posing, but you can do more beautiful things more confidently in photography... When you make a session of poses, it happens that you work for four or five hours. What interests me is taking different poses non stop, expressions too... Nudity in the cinema isn’t much more difficult, but it’s less fun.
I’ve been walking naked since I was a little child. My whole family are naturists; so I don’t really remember the first time when I got naked... As for my first sessions as a photo model, I had already done naturist photography with friends... so there was no problem.

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