Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Donna Duzit

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Nicknamed The Black Widow of Rancho Mirage

She was primarily active in adult films during the 1970s and 1980s.Notable Role: Under her pseudonym Donna Duzit, she appeared as the character Rachel Clark in the 1970 adult western film Nude Django (directed by Byron Mabe and produced by David F. Friedman).

While working on “Brand of Shame” (original title of “Nude Django”) Donna stated she broke her spine in a February 10, 1984, Palm Springs, Californa Desert Sun article. Also according to the article, she was she was a bride in a shotgun marriage to a wife beating sailor named Ishaq Mustafa Dajani from 1974 which resulted in her having two sons. She subsequently divorced Dajani in 1977 and with her two sons moved to Los Angeles to find her father.

In Los Angeles she worked as a waitress, cashier, bank escrow clerk and then as a Go-Go dancer at several clubs including the Boom-Boom Room in Gardena. She had breast implants returned her hair to its natural brunette, had her nose fixed and changed her name to Andrea Claire. Her dancing career led to modeling and acting. She appeared in several films “M*A*S*H”, “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” and “Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex”, On TV she appeared on ‘Days of Our Lives’, ‘Bewitched’.

She then became a Las Vegas call girl, married six times and was tried for murdering husband number five in 1981 two days later marrying husband #6. Convicted of the murder of husband #5 Robert Sand, Andrea Claire, as she was going by, was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison on May 14, 1981. She was released from prison in 2013 and died of cancer in Palm Springs, California on June 12, 2015, at the age of 74.

Donna Duzit appeared in one Euro-western, “Django Nudo und die husternen Madchen von Porno Hill” (Nude Django) as Rachel Clark in 1968.

DUZIT, Donna (aka Andrea Claire, Phyllis Cornelis, Andrea Mims, Samantha Scott, Prudence Smythe, Sarah Stunning) (Phyllis Claire Corneliss) [5/31/1941, New Jersey, U.S.A. – 6/12/2015, (cancer)] – film actress, married Herbert Wesley Denike [1935-1995] (1956-    ) mother of Guy Westley Denike [1957-2012], Douglas Charles Denike 91959–2023], married to Phillip Green (1966-1970), married to Ishaq Mustafa Dajani [1953-    ] (1974-1977), married to Derek Conte (19??-19??), married to ? (19??-19??), married to ?lumber executive Robert Sand [1911-1981] (1980-1981), married to water pump consultant Joe Mack Mimms [1926-1986] (1982-1983).

Nude Django – 1968 (Rachel Clark)