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Michelle Bauer
Bauer at GlamourCon
Born
Unknown

(1958-10-01) October 1, 1958 (age 67)
Montebello, California, U.S.
Other names
  • Kim Bittner
  • Michelle McClellan
  • Pia Snow
Occupations
  • Actress
  • model
Years active1981–present
Height5 ft 7 in (170 cm)

Michelle Bauer (born October 1, 1958), also credited as Pia Snow, Kim Bittner, and Michelle McClellan, is an American actress, model, and B-movie scream queen.

Early life

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Michelle Bauer was born on October 1, 1958,[1] in Montebello and grew up in Simi Valley, California.[2] Her mother was a preschool teacher and her father was a condominium manager. After her parents' divorce, she stayed with her mother.[2]

She was not born Bauer; it is her married name.[3]

Career

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Bauer was Penthouse magazine's "Pet of the Month" for July 1981[4] and also appeared in many other adult magazines during the early to mid-1980s, under a number of different names.[citation needed]

Bauer starred in the pornographic film Café Flesh (1982) under the name of Pia Snow.[5][6] She states that she was happy to appear in the film and on the covers of other films with an X rating, but insisted on a double for the sex scenes. Bauer appeared in several other pornographic titles under her Pia Snow moniker, including Bad Girls (1981), Nightdreams (1981), and others.[citation needed]

Bauer's Penthouse centerfold appearance led to acting for the Playboy Channel and a film try-out for director Fred Olen Ray. Ray liked her audition, and offered her the part if she would be willing to dye her hair black. Her first B movie was The Tomb (1986),[4] it would be the first of many. Along with Linnea Quigley and Brinke Stevens, Bauer became one of the most prominent B-movie scream queens in the late 1980s.[7][8][4] In addition to multiple films for Ray, she has worked with cult directors David DeCoteau, Jesús Franco and Zalman King and shared the screen with genre stars such as Sybil Danning, Monique Gabrielle, Julie Strain, Lina Romay, George Kennedy, David Carradine, Gunnar Hansen, Paul Naschy and Erik Estrada.

Her career is one of the main subjects of the 2011 documentary Screaming in High Heels: The Rise and Fall of the Scream Queen Era by director Jason Paul Collum.[9] She returned for the 2020 follow-up short Screaming in High Heels: The Reunion which again reunited her with Quigley and Stevens.[10]

Personal life

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Bauer retained her married name as a screen name. After she and her husband divorced, he filed a lawsuit requesting she not use it for her films. She tried appearing as Michelle McClellan, using the name of her second husband, in Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), but the press resisted, so she returned to Bauer, which the first husband eventually accepted.[3] The McClellans have a daughter.[2]

Selected filmography

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References

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  1. ↑ Albaugh, David (April 11, 2023). "Michelle Bauer: The Queen of Horror and Advocate for Animal Welfare". David's Basement of the Bizarre. Retrieved May 7, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 Shepard, Jewel (1992). "Michelle Bauer". Invasion of the B-Girls. Forestville, California: Eclipse Books. pp. 6–13. ISBN 1-56060-158-2.
  3. 1 2 Szebin, Frederick C.; Carson, Catherine (Fall 1995). "Michelle Bauer". Femme Fatales. Vol. 4, no. 2. Archived from the original on March 7, 2002. Retrieved September 30, 2007 – via PicPal.
  4. 1 2 3 Sagliani, Devan (August 25, 2014). "The Scream Queens: 4 Actresses Who Defined A Horror Genre". The Escapist. Archived from the original on December 3, 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
  5. ↑ Jones, Stephen (2000). The Essential Monster Movie Guide: A Century of Creature Features on Film, TV and Video. New York: Billboard Books. pp. 69, 81. ISBN 978-0-8230-7936-0. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ Jones, Alan. "Cafe Flesh film review". Radio Times. Archived from the original on March 12, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2007.
  7. ↑ Washington, Julie E. (March 31, 2000). "I Scream You Scream We All Scream for Scream Queens". The Plain Dealer. Retrieved March 20, 2019 – via NewsBank.[dead link]
  8. ↑ Butler, Robert W. (August 12, 2004). "She reigns as scream queen of B movies". Chicago Tribune. Knight Ridder/Tribune News. Archived from the original on September 29, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  9. ↑ Hallam, Scott (September 15, 2011). "It's Ladies Night in New Anthology Film 'Shy of Normal' and Documentary 'Screaming in High Heels'". Dread Central. Archived from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Screaming in High Heels: The Reunion (2020)". Mubi. Retrieved May 7, 2026.
  11. ↑ "Mockbuster | Where to watch streaming and online in Australia". Flicks. Retrieved November 1, 2025.
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