Sorority Girl

Sorority Girl (1957)

The Shock-by-Shock Confessions of a SORORITY GIRL! Smart... Pretty... And All Bad!

An affluent, malevolent girl at an all-female boarding school torments her fellow pupils while navigating a contentious relationship with her mother, who controls her late father's inheritance money.

Date of release
1957-10-01
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 1m
Genres
Drama
Director
Roger Corman

Casting

Interesting facts

Sorority Girl is a 1957 film noir exploitation film directed by Roger Corman. It stars Susan Cabot as Sabra, a sociopath who plays a very disruptive role in a sorority, with Barboura Morris, Dick Miller and June Kenney. It was released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Motorcycle Gang.

Production

Corman stated that the script was developed by AIP. He did not like it and had some of it rewritten, although not as much as he wanted.

Filming started on July 15, 1957 at Ziv Studios. Some scenes took place at the mansion of Ruta Lee in Laurel Canyon.

Susan Cabot later recalled working on Corman's films:

We would have some sort of a script, but there was a lot of, "Who's going to say what?" and "How 'bout I do this?" — plenty of ad-libbing and improvising. But Roger was really great in a way; he was very loose. If something didn't work out, he changed it right away. He gave me a great amount of freedom, and also a chance to play parts that Universal would never have given me — oddball, wacko parts, like the very disturbed girl in Sorority Girl.

Corman later recounted filming an emotional scene with Cabot, first via a medium shot, then via a close-up, and that her performance in the scene wasn't as strong using the latter. This prompted him to learn more about acting, so he enrolled in acting classes given by Jeff Corey, where he met Jack Nicholson and Robert Towne.

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