1. Gloria Leonard later went into public relations and worked for Elektra Records.
18 Facts About Gloria Leonard
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Gloria Leonard is best known for her role in The Opening of Misty Beethoven, Radley Metzger's erotic reimagining of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion.
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Gloria Leonard was hired by the magazine's publisher Carl Ruderman, who wanted a female publisher of a men's magazine.
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Gloria Leonard convinced magazine owner Ruderman to purchase more of these numbers and the business began to be successful using the magazine to promote the service.
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Gloria Leonard remarked to a colleague, "Yeah, I knew Ralph Lauren when he was Ralph Lipschitz".
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Gloria Leonard was presenter at an awards ceremony for Video Review magazine that was emceed by Klein.
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Gloria Leonard had been a guest on several talk shows, including Oprah, Geraldo, Maury, Larry King, Morton Downey Jr.
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Gloria Leonard has hosted her own television shows - The Leonard Report: For Adults Only and later, Gloria Leonard's Hot Shopper Hour.
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Gloria Leonard helped found and was a lifetime member of one of the industry's earliest adult actress support groups.
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Gloria Leonard served as administrative director of the Adult Film and Video Association of America, the adult film industry trade association, from 1989 to 1992, until that organization merged with the Free Speech Coalition.
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Gloria Leonard was a feminist and free speech advocate, and debated on the issues of pornography and censorship and their impact on the women's movement at several colleges and universities.
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Gloria Leonard won the Best Actress award for Taboo, American Style from the AFAA.
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Gloria Leonard is a member of the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame and Adult Video News Hall of Fame.
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Gloria Leonard was Jewish and raised in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City.
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Gloria Leonard was a single mother, more mature than most porn ingenues, and had had other occupations, such as a Wall Street broker and publicist.
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Gloria Leonard was separated from Hollander, her third husband, when he died in 2002.
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Mailer, a noted womanizer, struck up a conversation with Gloria Leonard after recognizing her.
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Gloria Leonard had made her home in Waimea, Hawaii, in what proved to be her last years.