Lindsay Bloom

Who is Lindsay Bloom?

Lindsay Diane Bloom is an American actress and former beauty pageant contestant.

Bloom is a native of Omaha, Nebraska. At age 17 she decided to become an actress and entered beauty pageants to gain attention. She was Miss Omaha in the 1968 preliminaries for the Miss America Pageant. She did not advance to the national level. In 1969, she won the title of Miss Utah.

"Later I was Miss Arizona in the Miss USA competition for Miss World. I was second runnerup. And in 1973 I was Miss USA for the Miss International Pageant and went to Japan," she said in a 1975 article. "I placed fourth." She declined offers to appear in Playboy magazine, stating that "...I've refused three times to pose nude in Playboy because it can't help my career."

In 1975, Bloom was cast in the lead role of an American International Pictures drive-in theatre fare, Six Pack Annie, about a "beer-guzzling, truck-driving Southern belle," in a scanty wardrobe. "Some of the language I use is pretty salty," she said. "That and the nude scene is why they gave it an 'R' rating."

Bloom was cast as detective Mike Hammer's secretary Velda in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and The New Mike Hammer.