Teutonic sex titan Brigitte Maier left her native Germany at age four to settle in Chicago, where she grew up in a conservative middle-class atmosphere and attended Catholic school. Draw whatever conclusions you like from that, but as soon as Brigitte was of legal age, she ditched the Midwest for Hollywood, landed work as a topless dancer, and went on to reign as one of the fledgling adult-film industry's first true superstars. After temporary disillusionment, Brigitte relocated to Sweden, where she rediscovered the joys of the blue screen. In time, Brigitte married visionary erotic filmmaker Lasse Braun and continued to redefine the boundaries of cinematic heat throughout the "Golden Age" of the 1970s.