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The Pam Grier Nude
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Name: Pamela Suzette Grier |
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Welcome to The Pam Grier Picture Sites! This site truly contains only high quality scans, so you can stop searching for Pam Grier pictures from now on! For those new to the site, my philosophy on exactly what constitutes 'high quality' is found here. Be sure to check out all three picture galleries to your left.Keeping a successful career going for three decades and growing is no small feat, but Pam Grier -- boasting one of the coolest cinematic presences around -- has been able to keep her fire burning strong with sheer attitude and pure charisma.Pamela Suzette Grier was born May 26, 1949, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Little baby Grier only got to know her southern town for five years before her father, a mechanic in the Air Force, was transferred along with his family to Swindon, England. Pam and the rest of the Grier clan traveled around Europe on American Military bases before settling back in Denver, Colorado when Pam was 14. Four years after a self-described "awkward" high school experience, Pam went to Metropolitan State College, where she majored in pre-med. During her college years, she gained enough confidence in her physical beauty (and rightfully so) to enter the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant, which was done more for the possible financial benefits than for any reasons of vanity. After coming in second runner-up, Pamela went on to enter other beauty pageants, including one where she caught the eye of talent agent Dave Baumgarten, who was looking for black actresses to come to the new liberal Hollywood. A reluctant Grier was goaded on by her mother to jump on the opportunity. At first Pam didn't find any roles and accepted low paying jobs to tide her over. She finally hit the big time after trying out for B-movie artisan Roger Corman's The Big Doll House (1971) -- the precursor to many straight-to-video "women in chains" or "babes-in-bonds exploitation" flicks -- the film that launched her career. She also landed roles in the two 1972 sequels, The Big Bird Cage and Black Mama, White Mama (on the set of which she almost died from a tropical disease while filming in the Philippines -- it took her a year to recover). Despite their lack of any artistic ambition, the series of feminine jailhouse flicks were a success. Black Mama, White Mama introduced her name to the rest of Hollywood and she would become the first lady of Blaxploitation Cinema, which would conquer the theaters throughout the early '70s. The first of these strong black characters -- which were all a conscious refusion of years of weak cinematic black jesters and servants -- was Coffy who, in the film of the same name, goes on a violent rampage against drug pushers and white power structures. The film was a huge success in black theaters as well as for feminists of all ethnicities. Soon after, Pam would make an appearance in what seemd like a remake of Coffy, Foxy Brown (1974). From then, the Blaxploitation movement started to go stale and Pam starred in some lesser known films of the genre before they were dead by the mid-'70s. Pam's career took a less public turn through the '80s with roles in small films and some theater productions. In 1988, her career came to a total halt when she was diagnosed with cancer. She fought the disease to the point of remission over the next few years and re-ignited her career by the '90s. Short filmography: Grier was discovered by quickie director Roger Corman, who cast her in his women-in-prison pictures The Big Doll House (1971) and The Big Bird Cage (1972). She became a staple of the blaxploitation movies of the early 1970s, playing big, bold, buxom, and essentially interchangeable roles in such films as Coffy (1973), 'Sheba, Baby' (1975) and Foxy Brown (1974). With the demise of blaxploitation, Grier's career went into hiatus for some years. She worked her way into progressively larger character roles in the 1980s, including notably the stoned prostitute in Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), a witch in Something Wicked this Way Comes (1983), and Steven Seagal's detective partner in Above the Law (1988). She became a regular on the hit television detective series Miami Vice in 1985. Click on a link on the left to go to each gallery.
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