---
category: Crime & Abuse Networks
created: 2026-09-23
location: New York City
relations:
- fn: 3
  role: performer
  type: participant_in
  with: '[[The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig]]'
summary: New York adult film actress of the 1970s, one of the industry's early performers,
  who appeared in R.C. Horsch's Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig.
tags:
- Person
- AdultFilm
- RCHorsch
updated: 2026-09-23
---

Darby Lloyd Rains, born Barbara in 1947 ("not 1948 as it says some places on the internet," she said), is a former adult film actress who was among the early group of New York performers of the 1970s with Marc Stevens, [Tina Russell](/people/tina-russell/), [Georgina Spelvin](/people/georgina-spelvin/) and Jamie Gillis; she played the lead in *Naked Came the Stranger* (1975).[^1][^2]

### Early Life

She grew up in Yorktown Heights in Westchester County. Her father, from a musical family of the Pacific Northwest, had roles in Broadway productions of the 1950s including *Brigadoon* and *The Pajama Game*, toured with a male quartet, the Revelers, and later taught music at a local high school. With a friend she formed a singing duo, Cranberry, which recorded for Liberty Records with Joe Negroni of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers as producer; the record never had a real release.[^1] Her early films included *Sex U.S.A.* and *Dark Dreams* (1971).[^1] In February 1973 she appeared in *[The Erotic Memoirs of a Male Chauvinist Pig](/misc/the-erotic-memoirs-of-a-male-chauvinist-pig/)*, shot in Philadelphia by [R.C. Horsch](/people/rc-horsch/).[^3][^4]

### Elizabeth Arrest

In 1974, she said, Stevens persuaded her to make a personal appearance at a new theater in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the Liberty, which was showing *Lady on a Couch*; police arrested her, Stevens and a man named Allen under a local ordinance against exhibiting adult films. "I told the cops, 'We're not exhibiting anything!'" she said. The authorities, she said, released them on condition that they sign a document absolving the police of blame. She left New York in the late 1970s.[^2]

[^1]: "NYC Starlets, Part 5: Darby Lloyd Rains, Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (Act 1)," *The Rialto Report,* February 2, 2025. https://www.therialtoreport.com/2025/02/02/darby-lloyd-rains/
[^2]: "NYC Starlets, Part 5: Darby Lloyd Rains, Why Do Fools Fall In Love (Act 2)," *The Rialto Report,* January 26, 2025. https://www.therialtoreport.com/2025/01/26/darby-lloyd-rains-2/
[^3]: West, Ashley. "Unknowing Ray Horsch, Episode 2: Performance," *The Rialto Report,* Podcast 172, September 20, 2026 (republishing interviews recorded in 2013). https://www.therialtoreport.com/2026/09/20/ray-horsch-3/
[^4]: "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women," *The Philadelphia Inquirer,* August 2, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html