Arcadia Lake
- Actress
It has not been revealed for certain where Arcadia Lake was born, where
she went to school or where she died.
Ron Jeremy has said she was teaching a
college physical education aerobics class before beginning her adult
film career. In Show World--a Times Square sex emporium--around 1977,
she met Eric Edwards while dancing
on the live stage. He claimed to have helped her stop using cocaine
while she performed in films with him. He also said she was able to
leave a methadone treatment program with his help. They were said to
have married in 1980, but jealousies and disagreements followed
regarding his multiple partnerships. Of course, without methadone, it
was more difficult for her to stay off of cocaine. The money she earned
from her successful porn career and her troubled marriage only fueled
her return to her habit. Director
Carter Stevens, a director of photography
on many of her early films, said she "had the most beautiful, clear
porcelain skin" complexion he had ever seen. Arcadia had such a clean,
wholesome look in her films it was difficult to imagine that she had
any drug problems at all. Rumors about her 1991 death range from her
being the victim of a Mafia murder to her having faked her death so she
could leave the porn world and take a new--and more respectable--name
and career. Wherever she might be now, her beautiful dark, jet black
hair and unforgettable sweet smile could live forever in the dreams of
her fans.
While best known for her role in Debbie Does Dallas (1978), most aficionados agree that her best films were Secrets of a Willing Wife (1979)--in which she played a cook who seemed not connected to the film's main plot--Honey Throat (1980) and Summertime Blue (1979).
While best known for her role in Debbie Does Dallas (1978), most aficionados agree that her best films were Secrets of a Willing Wife (1979)--in which she played a cook who seemed not connected to the film's main plot--Honey Throat (1980) and Summertime Blue (1979).
