California Star
California Star, also known as Calstar, Cal-Star and California Star Productions, is a major spanking video producer that has been in business since the 1980s. Based in Lancaster, California, they offer fetish videos, specifically bondage, spanking, tickling and discipline.
British imports
In addition to producing a vast inventory of original material, Calstar has been one of the largest U.S. distributors of British corporal punishment (mostly caning) import videos since the mid-1980s. This is largely due to the Video Recordings Act of 1984 which effectively banned the sale of spanking videos in Britain.
Many of the older U.K. titles were originally made by Tallion, Imprint Productions, as well as spanking magazine producers Blushes and Kane. These are marketed in three separate product lines: the English Discipline Series, English Punishment Series (a "Best of" collection), and English Spanking Classics.
Performers
Many top fetish stars from the '80s and '90s as well as popular up-and-com[[ing actresses have worked for Cal-Star including Kiri Kelly, Alexis Payne, Gia Regency, Belinda Clark, Gemini, Jewell Marceau, Danielle Hunt, Rebeckah Jordan, and Anastasia Pierce.
Well-known mainstream horror actress Linnea Quigley, using the alias Jesse Dalton, performed in four California Star fetish videos: Avenged, Stalked, Scorpion (all 1986), and Flash (1987).
Quigley's fellow scream queen Michelle Bauer (under the names Pia Sands, Pia Snow, and Kim Bittner) appeared in Trap (1985), with Julia Parton, Tied & Tickled (1985), with Jennifer Brooks, Teri Learns the Ropes (1987), and Greek File (1987).