BAMBI WOODS - DEBBIE DOES DALLAS
Born: July 12, 1955 as Debra DeSanto
Origin: Pierre, South Dakota
Years active: 1978-1985
If you’re somewhat a porn nerd as much as I am, chances are you’ve at least heard of the legendary Bambi Woods. And even if you’re not, you might at least heard of or even seen her most legendary (and just about only) role of Debbie in the 1978 XXX classic “Debbie Does Dallas”. This flick has become just as iconic as “Deep Throat” in the sense that it represents the Golden Age of Porn’s blockbusters that somehow made it to mainstream fame.
A 2005 article in The Age stated that Woods had died in 1986 of a drug overdose under lurid circumstances. In a 2005 Channel 4 documentary, Debbie Does Dallas Uncovered, Clark said the real name of Woods (which he declined to specify on camera) was used to trace her family in the mid 1990s, and a private investigator had been informed through indirect communications that she was living an ordinary life in the Des Moines area and wished to have no involvement with nor publicity concerning her former career.