Tura Satana
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Tura Satana (July 10, 1938 – February 4, 2011) was a Japanese American actress, vedette, and exotic dancer.
Some of her film work includes the exploitation film Faster Pussycat, which she credits from 13 film and television credits.Kill!
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(1965) and the science fiction horror film The Astro-Zombies (1968).Early life
In Hokkaid, Japan, Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi. Her father, a Japanese silent film actor of Filipino descent, and her mother, a Native American (Cheyenne) and Scots-Irish immigrant, had a migrant background. Tura and her family immigrated to Chicago after the war II ended and a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California.
She was reportedly attacked by five men as she walked home from school right before her tenth birthday. Her attackers were never charged, according to Satana, and it was believed that the judge had been paid off. This led her to study martial arts, including aikido and karate, according to her. Satana tracked down every rapist and exact revenge over the past 15 years. Years later, she said, "I made a promise to myself that I would someday, somehow get to know all of them." "They had no idea who I was until I told them." Around this time, she formed "the Angeles" with Italian, Jewish, and Polish girls from her neighborhood. "We had leather motorcycle jackets, jeans, and boots...and we kicked butt," Satana said in a video interview with Psychotronic Video. She was sent to reform school as a result of regular delinquency. When she was 13, her parents arranged her marriage to 17-year-old John Satana in Hernando, Mississippi, which lasted nine months.
Satana moved to Los Angeles and began performing burlesque dancing by age 15, with fake names to mask the fact that she was not a juvenile. She was hired to perform at the Trocadero nightclub on the Sunset Strip and became a photographic model for Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3-D.
Satana returned to Chicago to live with her parents and started dancing at the Club Rendevouz in Calumet City, where she was referred to as Galatea. She was given a raise to become a stripper. Elvis Presley saw Satana perform at Chicago's Follies Theater, sparking a long-term relationship that ended in a marriage proposal that she turned down, according to some. Satana went from city to city, and she soon became a top exotic dancer. Lloyd gave her the confidence to pursue a career in show business: "I saw myself as an ugly child," she recalled. You have such a symmetrical appearance,' Mr. Lloyd said. "You should be seen," your camera adores your face.
Personal life
Satana claims to have dated Elvis Presley but turned down his marriage proposal, though she retained the ring.
Acting career
In the film Irma la Douce, which starred Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, Satana's debut role was a cameo as Suzette Wong, a Parisian prostitute. In Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed, she was next. (1963), which starred Dean Martin and Elizabeth Montgomery, was a film that debuted in the United States. Satana appeared in Burke's Law (1964) and The Man from U.C.L.E. (1964): A historical record of the United States (1964).
In the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat, Satana appeared as "Varla" in a starring role.Kill!
Kill! A very powerful and sexual female character for whom she did all of her own stunts and fight scenes. Richard Corliss, a veteran film critic, called her performance "the most sincere, perhaps the most realistic, and certainly the most frightening" representation of the Meyer canon, "probably the most honest, perhaps the most authentic portrayal in the Meyer canon. The film, originally called The Leather Girls, is a tribute to female violence based on a Russ Meyer and screenwriter Jack Moran's idea. Both thought at her first audition that Satana was "definitely Varla." The film was shot on location in Los Angeles during days when the temperature was more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit and freezing nights, with Satana frequently clashing with teenage co-star Susan Bernard due to Bernard's mother's reportedly violent behaviour on set. Satana was "highly able," Meyer said. She knew how to treat herself.Don't fuck with her!
And if you have to fuck her, do it well!
She might turn on you!"
Satana was responsible for the production's visual appearance and humour, including her costume, makeup, use of martial arts, discussion, and the use of spinning tires in the main male character's death scene. She had a few of the film's best lines. While confessing to a longing to see America, the gas station attendant was ogling her cleavage at one point in the film. Varla wrote, "You won't find it down there, Columbus." Meyer cited her as the film's most significant factor in the film's long-running success. "She and I made the film," he said. Meyer is said to have regretted not using Satana in subsequent works.
After Faster, Pussycat!
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Kill!, Satana was primarily film director Ted V. Mikels in films including The Astro-Zombies (1968) and The Doll Squad (1973). Satana was shot by a former lover when making Mikels' The Doll Squad in 1973. She later found work in a hospital, a position she held for four years. She had worked at Firmin Desloge Hospital and had studied nursing. She was then briefly employed as a dispatcher for the Los Angeles Police Department. In 1981, her back was broken in a car crash. She spent the next two years in and out of hospitals, having two major operations and about fifteen others.Malvina Satana, the sequel to The Astro Zombies, appeared in 2002, marking her return to acting in Mark of the Astro Zombies.