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Actor Born: July 21, 1920 in Cheyenne, WY Death: August 16, 2004 in Ahwatukee, AZ Biography:A true screen oddity, Universal's exotic Paula the Ape Woman was, according to the lady herself, part Arapaho Indian and part British nobility. Her adopted name was Mildred Davenport and she had been a Harry Connover model prior to signing with Universal in 1942. As "Acquanetta" (or Burnu Acquanetta, meaning "Burning Fire"), the darkly handsome starlet starred as the "Captive Wild Woman" (1944), Universal's only female monster. Like her distant relative, the Panther Woman of "The Island of Dr. Moreau", Paula Dupree was part animal, part human but with a tendency to turn back into the former under stress. Unfortunately, the transformation scenes were rather ill-advised, "Acquanetta" appearing to change from Caucasian girl to African-American to gorilla, a sequence, according to many critics, that conjured up the ridiculous racial theories of the Nazi regime. Even more ill-advised was an incredibly... Full Biography
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