Released in 1975, The Opening of Misty Beethoven received the first annual Erotic Film Festival Award for Best Movie and is widely regarded as the best adult movie ever. Loosely based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalian, it stars Jamie Gillis and Constance Money who performed in only eight X-rated movies.

Constance Money initially thought that The Opening of Misty Beethoven would be an R-rated picture.

"Misty is a good movie because it is real," says Constance. The incidents in the film were happening to me at the time, especially my relationship with Jamie. Henry Paris [the director whose real name is Radley Metzger] made me that character. He told me I couldn't act so I fit the part.

"I didn't get paid for Misty Beethoven. Nor did I sign a release. I didn't have a good attitude and I didn't like Henry Paris.

"Henry makes films with blood. Not money, blood. The man is sick. Anyone who squirts somebody in the face with K-Y
Jelly and cottage cheese for ten hours a day has got to be doing it for more than just film.

"Jamie beat me up sexually. Jamie and I had and still have a strange relationship. He's kinky.

"My sexual learning is just as Misty Beethoven showed. I started off clumsy.

"My favorite novelist is Jerry Kozinski. I read his Painted Bird right after shooting Misty Beethoven. It probably saved my
life. I was so depressed after that movie. The book lifted me out of it.

"Having done these films affects my relationships which is why I retired. A guy I'm going out with might go to a stag party where they show a tape, and other guys will say, 'Isn't that your girlfriend?' It's hard for them to deal with it because most of them are really straight.

"My mother was up one night watching cable TV with her boyfriend when she saw me.

"A couple of times in New York guys have come up to me and pulled their pants down. I was having dinner once and this guy
came up and flop, he pulled his cock out right there in front of us. But people aren't usually like that." (Adam, 5/80)

A rare porn performer featured in a multi-page Playboy layout, Constance retired to the Pacific Northwest for several years. Then she returned to Porn Valley in 1982 for A Taste of Money, a romantic account of her return to X.

After leaving the biz, Constance Money reverted to her real name Susan Jensen and moved to Alaska to run a restaurant.

Radley Metzger bestowed the porn name Constance Money on his Miss Beethoven star because she constantly asked him for money.