October 1, 1958 / Libra / Age 67
Michelle Bauer is an American-born Penthouse model, B-movie actress, porn actres, and scream queen. She was born Michelle Denise Medvitz on October 1, 1958 in Montebello, California, United States.
Throughout her modeling career, she has also appeared as Michelle McClendon, Michelle McClellan, Pia Snow, Kim Bittner, Michelle McLellan, Michelle McClellen or Pia Sands.
Michelle Bauer was crowned Penthouse Pet of the Month in July 1981, stepping into the spotlight at 22 years old. Her measurements are 36-24-36. Michelle Bauer has charming brown eyes, rich brown hair, and natural breasts.
There are faces that make the frame work harder — a camera magnetism that insists on attention. Michelle Bauer’s story ignited in the grain and glow of glossy pages: a July 1981 Penthouse pictorial that arrived like the first beat of a daring, cinematic pulse. Those photographs signaled momentum, a fearless energy poised to move beyond the page.
On screen she cultivated that same unbothered confidence. Her Penthouse centerfold opened doors — invitations to on-camera work, the Playboy Channel, and auditions across the independent film scene — and she met each opportunity with composure and control. Whether appearing under different names in the early 1980s magazine churn or shaping how her image landed in genre productions, she projected a mood both controlled and provocatively assured.
Her passage into underground and cult cinema was purposeful. Working as Pia Snow in the cult film Cafe Flesh (1982), she stepped into an underground mythology and earned a reputation for embracing unconventional creative spaces. A director’s sightline changed her trajectory when Fred Olen Ray saw an audition and offered her a part on the condition she dye her hair black; she agreed, and The Tomb (1986) became her first B-movie, the overture to a long run as one of the era’s “scream queens.” She later surfaced in genre favorites — Demonwarp (1988), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), Virgin High (1991), Red Lips (1995) — and her life and career became central to the 2011 documentary Screaming in High Heels: The Rise and Fall of the Scream Queen Era, a film that framed how she and her peers helped shape a moment where glamour, horror, and independent filmmaking intertwined. Even her professional surname, Bauer, taken from her first marriage, weathered legal disputes and rebranding attempts to become the name audiences recognized.
She remains, in memory and on film, a study in camera confidence: a young model who moved deliberately into cult-film legend, ever mindful of how she would be seen.
Height: 5'7 (170 cm)
Weight: 119 lb (54 kg)
Breast: 36" (92 cm)
Waist: 24" (60 cm)
Hips: 36" (92 cm)
Breast type: natural
Zodiac: Libra
Ethnicity: caucasian
Hair сolor: brown
Eye сolor: brown