Lada St. Edmund

St. Edmund became a popular nationally known go-go dancer on the 1965–1966 NBC-TV rock music series Hullabaloo.

[1] St. Edmund married in the late 1970s and moved to Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

She also appeared on the short lived ABC-TV anthology series ABC Stage 67.

[1] As she struggled to find roles, she met Hal Needham through Dinah Shore.

[2] After her meeting with Needham, and with the encouragement of Burt Reynolds, she studied to be a stunt performer.

She performed a motorcycle jump over cars on a television pilot for Evel Knievel, and suffered a compression fracture.

She was unable to perform one day and the woman who was her stand-in ended up being paralyzed during a scene.

[1] St. Edmund's stunt work eventually made her the highest paid stuntwoman in Hollywood history.

[1] As a personal trainer, she has a youth training program called Modern Miracles.