{"id":11730,"date":"2011-02-06T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T16:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=11730"},"modified":"2011-02-06T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T16:09:43","slug":"tura-satana-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/06\/tura-satana-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Tura Satana, 72"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>She was the quintessential Russ Meyers woman – a curvy figure with a tough-as-nails attitude. Tura Satana, the star of exploitation film director Meyers’ cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!<\/strong>, has died yesterday in Reno Nevada. Satana’s manager stated that the actress’ age as 72, though some sources list her year of birth as 1935.<\/p>\n

In Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,<\/strong> Satana played the leader of a gang of go-go dancers who kidnap a young couple and after they kill the boyfriend force the girl to accompany them on their continuing crime spree.<\/p>\n

Satana got her instincts for show business and her exotic looks from her parent’s unique mixed heritage. Her mother was a circus performer of American Indian (Cheyenne) and Scots-Irish background while her father was a silent movie actor of Japanese and Filipino descent. As a teenager, she traveled to LA to try her hand first as a blues singer then as a model. When modeling for Harold Lloyd, who had developed a passion for photography in his later years, the former silent film star advised her to give acting a try.<\/p>\n

Following her first film roles as a prostitute in the 1963 Jack Lemmon comedy Irma La Douce<\/strong>, Satana found herself appearing as a dancer in such movies as Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?<\/strong> (1963) with Dean Martin and Elizabeth Montgomery and the James Coburn spy-spoof Our Man Flint <\/strong>(1966). After Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!,<\/strong> Satana headlined the exploitation films The Astro-Zombies <\/strong>(1968) and The Doll Squad <\/strong>(1973).<\/p>\n

After starring in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Satana worked mainly with cult film director Ted V. Mikels in such films as The Astro-Zombies (1968), The Doll Squad (1974) and Mark of the Astro-Zombies (2002). She has also appeared as herself in various documentaries and TV shows including The Incredibly Strange Film Show (1988), A & E’s documentary called “Cleavage”(2003),Strip de velours (2005) and Sugar Boxx (2007) which is currently in post production and co-stars fellow Russ Meyer alumna Kitten Natividad.<\/p>\n

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