KATHY TROUTT, ‘The Blue Lagoon’
Kathy Troutt was hired to search Fijian waters for dolphin that might be trained to appear in a major feature film. At Dunk Island, Kathy was hired to do nude stand-in for the leading female actor. At the last moment this plan was changed and the actor performed her own nude underwater sequence – however, Kathy received enormous advance publicity.
Kathy underwater photo by Valerie Taylor for Peer Productions(postcards)
Kathy did nude stand-in scenes and especially all the diving for a main teen actor, Brooke Shields.
Some film crew members later estimated that Kathy is in much of the finished movie!
Ron and Val Taylor (below) also worked on underwater scenes for Blue Lagoon, in Fiji with Kathy. Photo © by JH Harding (1967)
KAT – FEATURE FILMS
Kathy Troutt – center, top row
The Blue Lagoon script had the boy star of the film riding a pair of dolphin as per this example. That plan was dropped when finding and then training dolphin in Fiji was not going to be practical. Kathy Troutt was ‘body double’ for the young actress who starred in the movie. The Blue Lagoon link (below) is to You Tube (9 December 2013)
Kathy in centre – top row.
Others include Kay Overell, Tanya Binning and Eva Cropp
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