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Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and martial artist. Described by Quentin Tarantino as cinema's first female action star, [ 2 ] she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action , blaxploitation and women-in-prison films for American International Pictures and New World Pictures .
Cultural critic Nelson George notes, "Pam Grier was a cult figure who was even embraced by many feminists for her ball-breaking action movies. She remains one of the few women of any color in American film history who had vehicles developed for her that not only emphasized her physical beauty but also her ability to take retribution on men who ...
The Big Doll House is a 1971 American women-in-prison film starring Pam Grier, Judy Brown, Roberta Collins, Brooke Mills, and Pat Woodell.The film follows six female inmates through daily life in a gritty, unidentified tropical prison.
Pam Grier shouldn't have to be told that she's a game changer. ... As the ’80s dawned, Grier explored career paths beyond movies, alternating stage and TV roles with a burgeoning interest in ...
Pam Grier was excited to make the film as it involved a trip to Italy and she had enjoyed working with Markov. [4] The movie was the first feature directed by Steve Carver, who worked in post production at New World. Carver recalled " The script had several scenes in which the girls were undressed—one of Roger’s prerequisites.
Hit Man is a 1972 American crime film directed by George Armitage [2] and starring Bernie Casey, Pam Grier and Lisa Moore. [3] It is a blaxploitation-themed adaptation of Ted Lewis' 1970 novel Jack's Return Home, more famously adapted as Get Carter (1971), with the action relocated from England to the United States.
Greased Lightning is a 1977 American biographical film [1] starring Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, and Pam Grier, and directed by Michael Schultz.The film is based loosely on the true life story of Wendell Scott, the first Black NASCAR race winner and later a 2015 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee.
Bad Grandmas is a 2017 American action comedy film directed by Srikant Chellappa starring Pam Grier, Judge Reinhold, Florence Henderson, and Randall Batinkoff. It is an independent film written by Chellappa and Jack Snyder. Filming took place in 2015, before veteran actress Florence Henderson's death in November of the following year.