Arcadia Lake aka Michelle Carpenter worked frequently throughout the late 70's and early 80's. She was briefly married to porn stud Eric Edwards, but the pressures of porno stardom proved to be too much for the match to bear. She died of a drug overdose in 1990.

Edwards says that Arcadia Lake "was the first person I thought I really loved." He met her in the late '70s and spent a year getting her off the Methadone program. "The government was no help. She was a drug user and wanted to get clean. After a year of detoxing, she finally came clean. I loved her for having the strength to do such a thing. I was a doctor daddy type."

Eric found her work in porn. "She got back into drugs and that destroyed me. I wanted to be where she was because I loved her so much. She left me when my money was gone for another 'sugar daddy.'"

Eric blames Arcadia for introducing him to drugs like cocaine which took him several years to get over. "Down in the gutter, I struggled to stay alive. Whenever I'd done too much coke I realized it would be stupid to go in front of the camera. At least I had that awareness. Sometimes I'd refuse a role because I was so strung out from cocaine. I remember times I passed out and woke up thankful to still be alive.

Lake first performed in 1978's Summertime Blue where she portrays a high school girl who is introduced to sex by Edwards and Jean Jennings. Arcadia did another famous threeway in Young Wild & Wonderful with Eric and Kandi Barbour. She had a small part in the non-explicit film The Story of O.

Lake appears in five scenes in Arcadia Lake's Fantasies and displays her oral skills in Honey Throat. She retired from porn 1984.