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Tina Russell (nee Linda Marie Sanderson, later Linda Marie Mintzer) gives her best performance ever in 1973's Whatever Happened to Miss September? One of Tina's classic loops, Private Secretary, appears as part of Miss September's past.

"The search for Barbie Hendleton (Tina Russell), a sensitive, loving, highly sexual college graduate who poses for a nude photo in Town House magazine, is instigated by a wealthy man who falls in love with her picture. You get the feeling in her scenes with Eric Edwards, Marc Stevens, a Latin lover and even a bisexual scene with Helen Madigan, that Tina is not only a good actress but is being herself." (Rimmer)

The standard orgy scene reunites all characters at the end and the detective discovers that porno people are nice folks, which is frequently true.

The bisexual couple Tina and Jason Russell (John Sanderson) "lived in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone and seemed typical of urban young marrieds - except that both hail from small-town America and have not yet told their parents [1973] how they earn a living.

"A 24-year old brunette with finely chiseled features and a crisp Radcliffe air about her, Tina writes and speaks with total candor about the night she came upon Jason and a friend named Eric making love and decided to join them." (Bruce Williamson in Playboy 1974)

"Friends should make love," says Tina. "It helps friendships grow....People worry a little about vaginitis, because the guys can transmit it from girl to girl, but we seldom worry about V.D. because everyone knows everyone else. Anyway, there are only seven or eight people we're willing to f--- on film.

"I never knew love until I met Jason. Whenever I have to fantasize in a movie, I relate it to him."

According to rumor, Tina entered porn because "she liked big dicks and Jason only had a small dick. She particularly loved black guys with big dicks."

Around 1973, Tina  lost her husband for a few months to 17-year old porn newcomer Jean Jennings who blew through a pile of leching men including Russell.

Russell appeared frequently in early to mid '70s porn. She wrote two books, one on the sex organs, and another Porno Stars, published by Pinnacle, which reveals her philosophy.

Russell lived in a sexually open marriage. "My husband and I often shared our love with another female or male or couple. But it was always a spontaneous interaction with close friends, and not a planned party... I am an insecure person and cannot trust many people fully enough to abandon myself to them. As a result I have always preferred a one-to-one relationship."

Despite being a swinger and a porn star of more than 100 films, Tina preserved her female instinct for "a one-to-one relationship."

She refused to do bestiality, S-M and anal sex.

"I have spent much of my life searching for the transcendental orgasm... but it has been a search for quality through selectivity...not quantity... A transcendental orgasm is totally and completely letting go. You are completely with yourself, your orgasm and your partner."

Despite her hundreds of sex partners on screen and off, Tina preferred sex with intimacy.

An alcoholic, Russell developed cirrhosis of the liver, withered away to 70 pounds, and died at age 30 on May 18, 1981.