from Joe Bob Briggs' article about Herschell Gordon Lewis"That fall they shot Scum of the Earth, about a gang of pornographers who lure young college girls into posing for dirty pictures, but their big break came when Friedman hooked up with the owner of the top burlesque theater in Cincinnati, Eli Jackson.
Jackson wanted to finance a nudie film starring his wife, the stripper Virginia “Ding Dong” Bell (measurements 48-24-36), who was so well-known nationally that she commanded a queenly $1,500 a week. Herschell and his partner made a quick deal to shoot the film as hired guns—the finished product, lost to posterity, was called Bell, Bare and Beautiful—but it was really just an excuse to put together a cast and crew with someone else’s money so they could use the extra time to make Blood Feast at the Suez Motel in Miami Beach."