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'Foxy Brown' is selling Pam Grier's body just like it was sold a couple years ago in a half-dozen Philippine women-in-prison pictures." [12] Linda Gross of the Los Angeles Times stated, "For the most part, 'Foxy Brown' is just another movie about vengeance, vigilantes, dope, call girls and violence — interspersed with sex, vulgarity and hatred."
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.
Grier subsequently played similar characters in the AIP films Foxy Brown (1974), Friday Foster and Sheba, Baby (both 1975). Coffy is a favorite of Quentin Tarantino, and he ranks it high among his top 20 best films. [24] He later hired Grier for Jackie Brown in 1997, a film with clear inspiration from films like Coffy and Foxy Brown. Tarantino ...
But Grier's combination of steeliness and sensuality appealed to both male and female moviegoers, sending her subsequent star vehicles like Foxy Brown, Sheba, Baby and Friday Foster to the top of ...
The actress is producing a seven-part limited series based on her book “Foxy: My Life in Three Acts.” Pam Grier […] Pam Grier to develop ‘Foxy Brown’ musical, TV series based on her memoir
But Grier's combination of steeliness and sensuality appealed to both male and female moviegoers, sending her subsequent star vehicles like Foxy Brown, Sheba, Baby and Friday Foster to the top of ...
Foxy Brown: American International Pictures: Jack Hill (director/screenplay); Pam Grier, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Harry Holcombe, Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig, Bob Minor, Tony Giorgio, H.B. Haggerty, Kathryn Loder, Juanita Brown, Fred Lerner, Boyd "Red" Morgan 7 Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter: Paramount Pictures / Hammer Film Productions
Credited with breaking boundaries in Black cinema and widely heralded as one of the 1970s’ foxiest femme fatales, Grier starred in a range of action films, including “Coffy,” "Foxy Brown ...