Michelle Bauer (born October 1, 1958), also credited as Pia Snow, Kim Bittner, and Michelle McClellan, is an American actress, model, and B-movie scream queen.
Early life
Michelle Bauer was born on October 1, 1958, in Montebello and grew up in Simi Valley, California. Her mother was a preschool teacher and her father was a condominium manager. After her parents' divorce, she stayed with her mother. She states that she was happy to appear in the film and on the covers of other films with an X rating, but insisted on a double for the sex scenes. Bauer appeared in several other pornographic titles under her Pia Snow moniker, including Bad Girls (1981), Nightdreams (1981), and others.
Bauer's Penthouse centerfold appearance led to acting for the Playboy Channel and a film try-out for director Fred Olen Ray. Ray liked her audition, and offered her the part if she would be willing to dye her hair black. Her first B movie was The Tomb (1986), it would be the first of many. Along with Linnea Quigley and Brinke Stevens, Bauer became one of the most prominent B-movie scream queens in the late 1980s. She returned for the 2020 follow-up short Screaming in High Heels: The Reunion which again reunited her with Quigley and Stevens.
Personal life
Bauer retained her married name as a screen name. After she and her husband divorced, he filed a lawsuit requesting she not use it for her films. She tried appearing as Michelle McClellan, using the name of her second husband, in Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), but the press resisted, so she returned to Bauer, which the first husband eventually accepted. The McClellans have a daughter.