HOPE ELLE'S CELEBRITY FEMME FATALE BOSS BADASS, PAM GRIER: This intelligent sexy badass is believed to have been discovered by director Jack Hill, who cast her in his women-in-prison films The Big Doll House (1971) and The Big Bird Cage (1972). While under contract at AIP, she became a staple of early 1970s blaxploitation movies, playing big, bold, assertive women, beginning with Jack Hill's Coffy (1973), in which she plays a nurse who seeks revenge on drug dealers. Her character was advertised in the trailer as the "baddest one-chick hit-squad that ever hit town!" The film, which was filled with sexual and violent elements typical of the genre, was a box-office hit. Grier is considered to be the first African-American female to headline an action film, as protagonists of previous blaxploitation films were males. In his review of Coffy, critic Roger Ebert praised the film for its believable female lead. He noted that Grier was an actress of "beautiful face and astonishing form" and that she possessed a kind of "physical life" missing from many other attractive actresses. Grier subsequently played similar characters in the AIP films Foxy Brown (1974), Sheba, Baby, and Friday Foster (both 1975). Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. Grier became known in the early 1970s for starring in a string of 1970s women in prison and blaxploitation films such as The Big Bird Cage, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and Sheba, Baby. She starred as the titular character in Quentin Tarantino's 1997 crime film Jackie Brown, for which she received a Satellite Award and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She has also been nominated for a SAG Award. ~Wikipedia~ #pamgrier #blackgirlmagic #blackhistory #blackexcellance #vintage #vintagehollywood #oldhollywood #vintage #hollywood #classichollywood #classic #cinema #oldmovie #actress #retro #classicmovies #movies #icon #moviestar #vintagestyle #legend #oldhollywoodstars #classicfilm #movie #film #vintagemovies #70sfashion #70sstyle #70shair https://www.instagram.com/p/B3VrM-8p2UW/?igshid=1s21nvu92r7vn
