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+category: "Crime & Abuse Networks"
+tags:
+  - Person
+  - AdultFilm
+  - RCHorsch
+summary: "New York adult film actress of the 1970s, one of the industry's early performers, who appeared in R.C. Horsch's Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig."
+location: "New York City"
+relations:
+  - type: participant_in
+    with: "[[The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig]]"
+    role: "performer"
+    fn: 3
+created: 2026-09-23
+updated: 2026-09-23
+---
+
+Darby Lloyd Rains, born Barbara in 1947 ("not 1948 as it says some places on the internet," she said), is a former adult film actress who was among the early group of New York performers of the 1970s with [[Marc Stevens]], [[Tina Russell]], [[Georgina Spelvin]] and [[Jamie Gillis]]; she played the lead in *Naked Came the Stranger* (1975).[^1][^2]
+
+### Early Life
+
+She grew up in [[Yorktown Heights, New York|Yorktown Heights]] in [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]]. Her father, from a musical family of the Pacific Northwest, had roles in Broadway productions of the 1950s including *[[Brigadoon]]* and *[[The Pajama Game]]*, toured with a male quartet, the Revelers, and later taught music at a local high school. With a friend she formed a singing duo, Cranberry, which recorded for [[Liberty Records]] with Joe Negroni of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers as producer; the record never had a real release.[^1] Her early films included *Sex U.S.A.* and *Dark Dreams* (1971).[^1] In February 1973 she appeared in *[[The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig]]*, shot in [[Philadelphia]] by [[R.C. Horsch]].[^3][^4]
+
+### Elizabeth Arrest
+
+In 1974, she said, Stevens persuaded her to make a personal appearance at a new theater in [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]], the Liberty, which was showing *Lady on a Couch*; police arrested her, Stevens and a man named Allen under a local ordinance against exhibiting adult films. "I told the cops, 'We're not exhibiting anything!'" she said. The authorities, she said, released them on condition that they sign a document absolving the police of blame. She left New York in the late 1970s.[^2]
+
+### Footnotes
+
+[^1]: "NYC Starlets, Part 5: Darby Lloyd Rains, Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (Act 1)," *The Rialto Report,* February 2, 2025. https://www.therialtoreport.com/2025/02/02/darby-lloyd-rains/
+[^2]: "NYC Starlets, Part 5: Darby Lloyd Rains, Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Act 2)," *The Rialto Report,* January 26, 2025. https://www.therialtoreport.com/2025/01/26/darby-lloyd-rains-2/
+[^3]: West, Ashley. "Unknowing Ray Horsch, Episode 2: Performance," *The Rialto Report,* Podcast 172, September 20, 2026 (republishing interviews recorded in 2013). https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/09/20/ray-horsch-3/
+[^4]: "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 2, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html