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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. | New York City |
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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).12
Early Life
She grew up in Yorktown Heights, New York in Westchester County, New York. 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.34
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
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"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/ ↩︎
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"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/ ↩︎
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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/ ↩︎
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"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 ↩︎