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Valerie Harper lookalike Lesllie Bovee quit dancing to enter porn in 1975. Beginning with pictures for Bob Chinn, Troy Benny, and Alex deRenzy, she parlayed her standout performances into bigger and better roles.

"The camera can intimidate and diminish, but for Lesllie it amplified and illuminated her generosity of spirit. Her feline eyes can smolder or twinkle, and under the movie lights they sparkle with vitality and good humor, for Lesllie is that rare flower who loves men as much as she loves sex. Watch her in the famous Engine Room Scene from deRenzy's Femmes De Sade and you will see sexual frenzy. She swarms over three stokers, while clear golden oil gushes over their gleaming, straining bodies.

"In 1976 she went to Hawaii with John Holmes for a porn re-vamp of the Barbara Stanwyk melodrama, Double Indemnity. The beauty of the island setting fades into insignificance next to Lesllie's as she f---s in fields and foam, on sand and summit. Eruption signaled the beginning of a string of lustrous achievements in a score of big budget features opposite the top sluts in the porn stable, until her retirement as the new decade began." (AFW 1/87)

Excalibur: "Leslie is a ribald brunette with an appetite for lust who was one of the top stars of 1970's erotica. She was a breasty little trollop who savored sex in all its forms and was always ready to go that one step further for the benefit of her viewing public. Leslie was very pretty, and came across like a sexually available substitute teacher that you always dreamed would show up at your high school.

"Leslie was definitely a fine example of the 70's liberated woman, taking control of and responsibility for her own sexuality without a hint of shyness or guilt. Leslie was into sex without strings, spouting a free love philosophy that she really did live by. She always enjoyed herself on camera, and felt that sex was nothing if it wasn't fun."

Her best performances include "The Ecstasy Girls," "Champagne For Breakfast," and "Maraschino Cherry." Bovee has been inducted into both the XRCO and AVN Performers' Halls of Fame.

One night in 1978, Lesllie changed the life of NY bathing suite buyer Stuart Allen. "We went on one date and then she moved in with me," he recalls. "She came for an evening and stayed two years."

Allen soon quit his job to produce and market porn.