Jul 31
On July 31, 1990, Common Law Cabin was released on VHS in Wes5 Germany.
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On July 31, 1990, Common Law Cabin was released on VHS in Wes5 Germany.
“I like that Lennie Small character of Steinbeck’s, I’m sure he won’t mind if I borrow him…” -Russ Meyer, I assume
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
Tura Satana/Russ Meyer
“Spend any time around Tura Satana and you can’t help but fall under her spell. One whiff of that perfume – Luna Mystique, if you must know – and you’re a goner, my friend. She’s got a smoky, mischievous chuckle that says life’s a game and the deck’s been marked, so we might as well laugh. Satana still gets a kick out of life and enjoys kicking it back. There’s something noble about Tura. She slugged her way through years of gin mills and flesh pits with nary a dent to her dignity.”
/ From the essential Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer (2005) by Jimmy McDonough /
Born on this day 88 years ago: striking Amazonian Russ Meyer leading lady (John Waters calls her tough-as-nails performance as the vicious Varla in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966) "one of the best villains in screen history”), tassel-twisting burlesque queen (billed as “Miss Japan Beautiful”) and all-round ultra-vixen, the fiercely bodacious Tura Satana (Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi, 10 July 1938 - 4 February 2011). Do the Watusi or karate chop someone today in Satana’s memory! Pictured: Tura Satana in the 1963 film Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? via Tura Satana Productions. Their exciting 2025 documentary (simply entitled Tura!) is compulsory viewing.
“The way Indians could sniff out buffalo, Edy can sniff out flashbulbs,” wrote reporter Burt Prelutsky. “At the mere mention of the word “camera” her lips automatically moisten and her teeth part.” Decked out in some skimpy concoction designed to make passersby walk into walls, she’d muse to one reporter, “There is a certain satisfaction in frustrating men. I’m getting back at them and it’s a good feeling.” In her prime, every day was a press conference for Edy. “You mustn’t let a man feel too sure,” she instructed. “Instead of giving him your whole box of candy, you’ve got to ration it out one piece at a time.””
/ From the essential Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer (2005) by Jimmy McDonough /
Born on this day: perennial starlet, sex kitten, the former Mrs Russ Meyer and quintessential ultra-vixen Edy Williams (née Edwina Beth Williams, 9 July 1942). Reflecting on their stormy marriage, Meyer famously recalled that the fun lasted “about 45 minutes, but we were married for four years.” Williams’ voracious performance as predatory porn queen Ashley St Ives in Meyer’s 1970 sexploitation magnum opus Beyond the Valley of the Dolls – particularly her purring delivery of the line “You’re a groovy boy. I’d like to strap you on sometime” - ensures her cult cinema immortality.
TURA SATANA
in "Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill !!" (Russ Meyer, 1965)
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