Joi Lansing - Web of Love

Scopitones, those clunky 16mm jukeboxes in clubs and bars in the Sixties, are a treasure trove of garish pre-MTV musical wonders, and “Web Of Love“ is one of the art form’s most delirious delights. Joi Lansing (real name Joyce Wassmansdorff) was a platinum blonde nightclub chanteuse and bit player in movies and TV, but was better known to Middle America as Frank Sinatra’s on-again, off-again floozie, and she capitalized on her tabloid infamy by playing up the sexpot image in three Scopitones made in 1964. “