Jeanie Pepper has a juicy (or should I say sweet?) role in "Chocolate Kisses", one of the better VHS features spotlighting Black actresses early in the VHS era.
It starts with a montage of Hollywood, oddly beginning with a closeup of Red Buttons' plaque on the Walk of Fame (that's a pretty random choice of movie star), then the corny shot of the Capitol Records building, followed by "Jagged Edge" playing at Grauman's Chinese.
Story concerns Herschel Savage's failing Kisses Chocolates candy company. After he humps his secretary Heather Wayne, whose top billing is definitely unearned, we go directly to Ron Jeremy at a motor hotel with two Black hookers: Jeannie Pepper and Purple Passion. He balks at paying $200 for both but they insist (amounts to about $560 in today's money).
Mean banker Rick Savage turns Herschel Savage (hmm, I wonder how many movies feature both savages?) down on financing, giving him only 30 days till foreclosure, and Hersch decides salesmanship might save the business. He advertises for two gung-ho salesmen, with Pepper & Purple responding -after they f*ck him silly, they're hired.
Sex is their sales weapon, with big orders from Tom Byron, Buck Adams and Shone Taylor resulting. Rick is so impressed that he invests the bank's money into the business and is rewarded by two Kisses Girls (working at the chocolates plant) Bunny Bleu and Jennifer Noxt shtupping him. Ending has funny "Where are they now?" credits for each character.
Quite enjoyable, and the oddest touch was a building facade in the middle of the movie -a building for See's Chocolates! Don't tell me that was accidental.
