Also known as: Carrie Nations, The
Origin: Hollywood, CA, USA
The Carrie Nations was a fictitious all girl group that starred in the 1970 hippie and sexploitation 20th Century Fox film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls , or BVD for short. Band members included guitarist and lead vocalist Kelly "the singer" McNamara (played by Dolly Read), bassist Casey "the swinger" Anderson (played by Cynthia Myers) and drummer Petronella "the soul sister" Danforth (played by Marcia McBroom). BVD, co-written and directed by Russ Meyer and co-written (with screenplay credit) by future famous film critic Roger Ebert, was completely unrelated to the 1967 movie Valley of the D…