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'''Tura Satana''', (born '''Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi''' July 10, [[1935]] in Hokkaidō, Japan), is a [[Japanese]] born [[American]] [[actress]] and former [[exotic dancer]]. She is mostly remembered for her role as "Varla" in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film, ''[[Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!]]''.


== Biography ==
'''Tura Satana''' (July 10, 1938 – February 4, 2011) was a [[Japanese]]-born [[American]] [[actress]] and former [[exotic dancer]]. She was best known for her role as "Varla" in [[Russ Meyer]]'s 1965 cult film, ''[[Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!]]''
Tura Satana's father was a silent movie actor of [[Japanese]] and [[Filipino]] descent, and her mother was a circus performer of [[American Indian]] and [[Scots-Irish]]  background. After the end of World War II and a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California, she and her family moved to the Westside of Chicago. Tura developed breasts very early and despite being an excellent student, she was constantly harassed for her figure and Asian heritage. Walking home from school at the age of nine she was gang raped by five men. Her attackers were never prosecuted and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off. <ref>{{cite book|last=McDonough|first=Jimmy|title=Big Bosoms and Square Jaws|year=2004|pages=pp 158-159}}</ref>
 
This prompted her to learn martial arts, in particular karate (she would also study Aikido) and in the next fifteen years she eventually tracked down each rapist and enacted revenge. <ref name="MCD159">McDonough pg. 159</ref> "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them. They never knew who I was until I told them."<ref name = "MCD159"/>
==Early life==
Satana was born '''Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi''' in Hokkaidō, [[Japan]]. Her father was a silent movie actor of [[Japanese]] and [[Filipino]] descent, and her mother was a circus performer of [[American Indian]] ([[Cheyenne]]) and [[Scots]]-[[Irish]]  background. After the end of World War II and a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California, she and her family moved to the Westside of Chicago. She developed breasts very early and, despite being an excellent student, was constantly harassed for her figure and [[Asian]] heritage. Walking home from school at the age of nine she was gang raped by five men. Her attackers were never prosecuted and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off.<ref>{{cite book|last=McDonough|first=Jimmy|title=Big Bosoms and Square Jaws|year=2004|pages=158–159}}</ref>
This prompted her to learn the martial arts of aikido and karate and, over the next 15 years, track down each rapist and exact revenge.<ref name="MCD159">McDonough pg. 159</ref> "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them," she said years later. "They never knew who I was until I told them."<ref name = "MCD159"/>


As a teenager, Tura was sent to reform school and became the leader of a gang of teenage girls. In an interview with ''Psychotronic'' magazine, she said, "We had leather motorcycle jackets, jeans and boots and we kicked butt." At 13 years of age she was married in Hernandos, Mississippi, a short-lived union arranged by her parents and the family of her 17-year-old groom.
Because of the rape and the bribed judge, she was sent to reform school as a teenager and became the leader of a gang. In an interview with ''Psychotronic Video'', she said, "We had leather motorcycle jackets, jeans and boots and we kicked butt." At 13, she was married in Hernando, Mississippi, a short-lived union arranged by her parents and the family of her 17-year-old groom.


[[Image:Tura Satana 2.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Tura Satana during her years as "Miss Japan Beautiful"]]
[[Image:Tura Satana 2.jpg|left|thumb|220px|Tura Satana during her years as "Miss Japan Beautiful"]] Satana then came to Los Angeles at age 13 with a fake ID and tried her hand at blues singing. When that failed, she started modeling as a bathing suit photography model and posed nude for the silent screen comic Harold Lloyd, who did not know she was underage. Lloyd told Satana she should be in films because she was photogenic. While working as a photographic model, Satana contracted makeup poisoning and could not wear any makeup due to the ensuing skin erosions. She returned to Chicago to live with her parents and started dancing. Satana danced at the Club Rendevouz in Calumet City, Illinois, where she was known as Galatea, the Statue that Came to Life. She was offered a raise to become a stripper. She eventually became a successful exotic dancer, traveling from city to city and working with [[Rose Le Rose]], [[Maxine Martin, The Skyscraper Girl]], [[Tempest Storm]], [[Candy Barr]] and [[Stunning Smith the Purple Lady]]. Satana credited silent film star and 3D photographer Harold Lloyd with giving her the confidence to pursue a career in show business: "I saw myself as an ugly child. Mr. Lloyd said, 'You have such a symmetrical face, the camera loves your face... you should be seen.'"<ref>McDonough pp 160-161</ref>  
Tura then came to Los Angeles at age fifteen with a fake ID and tried her hand at blues singing and B-girl work eventually becoming a successful exotic dancer and traveling from city to city, working with the likes of Rose Le Rose, Maxine Martin The Skyscraper Girl, [[Tempest Storm]], [[Candy Barr]] and Stunning Smith the Purple Lady. Tura Satana credits silent film star and 3D photographer Harold Lloyd with giving her the confidence to pursue a career in show business. "I saw myself as an ugly child. Mr. Lloyd said, 'You have such a symmetrical face, the camera loves your face...you should be seen.""<ref>McDonough pp 160-161</ref>  


At 19, Tura became pregnant - but still danced for the next eight months with a typical week of work earning her around $15,000.  
At 19, Satana got pregnant, but continued dancing for the next eight months, earning a typical weekly salary of about $1,500.


== Acting career ==
==Acting career==
Her early acting career saw Tura take on a few television appearances on ''Hawaiian Eye'', ''The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'', ''The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.'', ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' with Jack Palance, ''Burke's Law'', and others. She also began appearing in movies, including ''Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?'' where she played a dancer with Dean Martin and Elizabeth Montgomery. That same year, she had a cameo as a Paris prostitute in the musical ''Irma La Douce'' with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine.
During her early career, Satana appeared on television shows such as ''Burke's Law'', ''The Greatest Show On Earth'', ''Hawaiian Eye'', and ''The Man From U.N.C.L.E.''. She also appeared as a dancer in ''Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?'' with Dean Martin and Elizabeth Montgomery. That same year, she had a cameo as a Parisian prostitute in the musical ''Irma La Douce'' with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine.


After starring in [[Russ Meyer]]'s ''[[Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!]]'' (1965), Tura worked mainly with campy cult film director, Ted V. Mikels in ''The Astro-Zombies'' (1968), ''The Doll Squad'' (1974) and ''Mark of the Astro-Zombies'' (2002). She has also apeared as herself in various documentaries and TV shows including ''The Incredibly Strange Film Show'' (1988), ''Strip de velours'' (2005) and ''Sugar Boxx'' (2007) which is currently in post production and co-stars fellow [[Russ Meyer]] alumnus [[Kitten Natividad]].
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]].


== As Varla in ''Faster Pussycat! Kill Kill!'' ==
===''Faster Pussycat! Kill Kill!''===
Satana's most noted screen role is Varla in the 1965 film ''Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!''--a very aggressive and sexual female character for which she did all of her own stunts and fight scenes.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schwartz|first=Adolph|title=A Clean Breast|year=2004}}</ref>
Renowned film critic Richard Corliss called her performance "...the most honest, maybe the one honest portrayal in the Meyer canon and certainly the scariest."<ref name="MCD167">McDonough pg 167</ref>


Tura Satana's most noted screen role is Varla in the [[1965]] film ''[[Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!]]'' - a very aggressive and sexual female character for which she did all of her own stunts and fight scenes. <ref>{{cite book|last=Schwartz|first=Adolph|title=A Clean Breast|year=2004}}</ref>
Originally titled ''The Leather Girls'', the film is an ode to female violence, based on a concept created by Russ Meyer and screenwriter Jack Moran. Both felt at her first audition that Satana was "definitely Varla."<ref name="MCD167"/> The film was shot on location in the desert outside Los Angeles during days above 100 degrees and freezing nights, with Satana clashing regularly with teenage co-star [[Susan Bernard]], because of Susan's mother disrupting the set.
Renowned film critic Richard Corliss called her performance "...the most honest, maybe the one honest portrayal in the Meyer canon and certainly the scariest." "<ref name="MCD167">McDonough pg 167</ref> In the book Incredibly Strange Films critic Jim Morton wrote of Tura, "By the end of the film she seems almost supernatural."
Meyer said she "was extremely capable. She knew how to handle herself. Don't fuck with her! And if you fuck with her, do it well! She might turn on you!"<ref name="MCD167"/>


Originally titled ''The Leather Girls'', the film is an ode to female violence, based on a concept created by independent filmmaker [[Russ Meyer]] and screenwriter Jack Moran. Both felt at her first audition that Tura Satana was "definitely Varla." "<ref name="MCD167"/> The film was shot on location in the desert outside LA during days above 100 degrees and freezing nights, with Satana clashing regularly with both Meyer and teenage co-star [[Susan Bernard]]. Meyer said Tura "was extremely capable. She knew how to handle herself. Don't fuck with her! And if you fuck with her, do it well! She might turn on you!" <ref name="MCD167"/>
She was fully responsible for adding key elements to the visual style and energy of the production, including her costume, makeup, usage of martial arts, dialogue and the use of spinning tires in the death scene of the main male character.<ref>McDonough, pg 173</ref> Meyer cited the extreme tension on the set caused by Satana as the primary reasons for the film's lasting fame. "She and I made the movie," said Meyer.<ref>McDonough, pg 178</ref>
Meyer came to greatly regret not using Satana in his subsequent productions.<ref>McDonough, pp 176-179</ref>


Tura was fully responsible for adding key elements to the visual style and energy of the production including her black low cut costume, makeup, usage of martial arts, snappy dialogue and the use of spinning tires in the death scene of the main male character."<ref>McDonough, pg 173</ref> Meyer cited the extreme tension on the set caused by Tura's larger-than-life personality, and Tura Satana herself, as the primary reasons for the film's lasting fame. "She and I made the movie," said Meyer."<ref>McDonough, pg 178</ref>
==Later years==
Russ Meyer came to greatly regret not using Satana in his subsequent productions."<ref>McDonough, pp 176-179</ref>
After making Ted V. Mikels' ''The Doll Squad'' in 1973, Satana was shot by a former lover. She later found employment in a hospital, a position she kept for four years. She had studied nursing at Firmin Deloos Hospital. She was then briefly employed as a dispatcher for the Los Angeles Police Department. In 1981, her back was broken in a car accident. She spent the next two years in and out of hospitals, having two major operations and approximately fifteen others.


== Later years ==
==Personal life==
Satana dated Elvis Presley but turned down his marriage proposal.<ref>{{cite book|last=Des Barres|first=Pamela|title=Let's Spend the Night Together|year=2008}}</ref> Satana married a retired Los Angeles police officer in 1981, and remained married until her husband died in October 2000.  She has two daughters from a previous relationship. Her older daughter Kalani had a cameo role in Mikels' ''Ten Violent Women''.  She had remained friends with Mikels till her death.


After making Ted V. Mikels' ''The Doll Squad'' in 1973, Tura was shot by a possessive former lover. Following this, she found employment in a hospital, a position she kept for four years. She was then briefly employed as a dispatcher for the Los Angeles Police Department. In 1981, her back was broken in a car accident. She spent the next two years in and out of hospitals, having two major operations and approximately 15 others.
==Death==
Satana died on February 4, 2011, in Reno, Nevada, United States. Her long-time manager, Siouxzan Perry, stated the cause of death as heart failure.<ref>[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/tura-satana-cult-actress-is-dead/?src=twrhp Artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com]</ref>


Tura married a retired L.A. police officer.  They have two daughters. Their older daughter had a cameo role in Mikels' ''Ten Violent Women''.
==Selected filmography==
* ''Irma La Douce'' (1963)
* ''[[Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!]]'' (1965)
* ''Our Man Flint'' (1966) (uncredited)
* ''The Astro-Zombies'' (1969)
* ''The Doll Squad'' (1974)
* ''Man Hands and Swollen Glands'' (1990)
* ''Mark of the Astro-Zombies'' (2002)
* ''Sugar Boxx'' (2008)
* ''The Haunted World of El Superbeasto'' (2009)
* ''The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels'' (as herself) (2010)


In an October 2008 interview, Tura commented, "I wore a 36 [[D]] bra when I was 13. I am now now a 40 [[HH]]."<ref>{{cite web|
==Tributes==
title= Sexpot star of 'Faster, Pussycat!' returns for art show: Tura Satana's curvy path leads back to Chicago |
Alternative metal band Tura Satana are named after her and Argentinian band Babasonicos has a song in her honor, ''¡Viva Satana!''
url= http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/galleries/1240778,tura-satana-faster-pussycat-102608.article|work= Chicago Sun-Times|date=2008-10-26|author=Hoekstra, Dave}}</ref>


== Popular culture references==
Seattle industrial band Kill Switch...Klick released a four song EP in 2008 featuring [[Super Amanda]] on vocals performing four different mixes of the Tura Satana Tribute song "Hemi Charger."
*Cult Australian indie band, Ratcat, released a single in 1990, on which the B-Side (penned by Simon Day) was "Tura Satana".
*Nu-metal band Tura Satana was named after her.
*Acclaimed film director Quentin Tarantino once remarked that he would have 'given up five years of his life' to work with Tura Satana circa 1960's."<ref>McDonough, pg 392</ref>
*'The Mountain Goats' "Song For Tura Satana" appears on ''Zopilote Machine''.
*Las Vegas-based burlesque performer and founder of The Sin City Grind Kittens, Elaina Satana, adopted the surname as a tribute to Tura, one of her biggest inspirations.


== Selected filmography ==
== Further reading ==
{{filmography start|style=listfull}}
*{{Cite book|author= Frasier, David K.|year=1998|title=Russ Meyer : The Life and Films : A Biography and A Comprehensive, Illustrated, and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography|publisher=McFarland & Co|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=0-7864-0472-8}}
{{film|Irma La Douce|released=[[1963]]|style=listfull}}
*{{Cite book|author= McDonough, Jimmy|year=2005|title=Big Bosoms and Square Jaws : The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film|publisher=Jonathan Cape|location=London|isbn=0-224-07250-1}}
{{film|Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!|style=listfull}}
*{{Cite book|author= Meyer, Russ|year=2000|title=A Clean Breast : The Life and Loves of Russ Meyer (3 Volume Set)|publisher=Hauck Pub Co|location=El Rio, TX|isbn=0-9621797-2-8}}
{{film|Our Man Flint|released=[[1966]]|notes=uncredited|style=listfull}}
*{{Cite book|last=Paul|first=Louis|year=2008|title=Tales From the Cult Film Trenches; Interviews with 36 Actors from Horror, Science Fiction and Exploitation Cinema|chapter=Tura Satana|pages=199–203|publisher=Wayne State University Press|location=Detroit|isbn=978-0-7864-2994-3}}
{{film|The Astro-Zombies|image=The Astro-Zombies.jpg|released=[[1969]]|style=listfull}}
*{{Cite book|author= Des Barres, Pamela|year=2007|title=Let's Spend The Night Together|id=|ISBN=13-978-1-55652-668-8}} Chapter 1 features Tura Satana.
{{film|The Doll Squad|released=[[1974]]|style=listfull}}
{{film|Mark of the Astro-Zombies|released=[[2002]]|style=listfull}}
{{filmography end}}


==Notes==
==References==
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== Further reading ==
==External links==
*{{cite book|author= Frasier, David K.|year=1998|title=Russ Meyer: The Life and Films : A Biography and A Comprehensive, Illustrated, and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography|publisher=McFarland & Co|location=Jefferson, N.C.|id=ISBN 0-7864-0472-8}}
* [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081027/PEOPLE/810279997 "The fastest of the Pussycats," 2008 appreciation by Roger Ebert
* Isted, Marc (1992). [http://picpal.com/tarart.html "Go - Go Tura!!! Satana!!! The Psychotronic Interview!!!"] in ''Psychotronic #12'', Michael J. Weldon, ed. New York: Psychotronic Video.
*{{cite book|author= McDonough, Jimmy|year=2005|title=Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film|publisher=Jonathan Cape|location=London|id=ISBN 0-224-07250-1}}
*{{cite book|author= Meyer, Russ|authorlink=Russ Meyer|year=2000|title=A Clean Breast: The Life and Loves of Russ Meyer (3 Volume Set)|publisher=Hauck Pub Co|location=El Rio, TX|id=ISBN 0-9621797-2-8}}


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Tura Satana

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Born July 10, 1938(1938-07-10)Hokkaidō, Japan
Died February 4, 2011 (aged 72)
Reno, Nevada, US
Years active 1963–2011
Ethnicity Asian, Caucasian
Nationality American
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Tura Satana (July 10, 1938 – February 4, 2011) was a Japanese-born American actress and former exotic dancer. She was best known for her role as "Varla" in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

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Early life

Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her father was a silent movie actor of Japanese and Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of American Indian (Cheyenne) and Scots-Irish background. After the end of World War II and a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California, she and her family moved to the Westside of Chicago. She developed breasts very early and, despite being an excellent student, was constantly harassed for her figure and Asian heritage. Walking home from school at the age of nine she was gang raped by five men. Her attackers were never prosecuted and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off.[1] This prompted her to learn the martial arts of aikido and karate and, over the next 15 years, track down each rapist and exact revenge.[2] "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them," she said years later. "They never knew who I was until I told them."[2]

Because of the rape and the bribed judge, she was sent to reform school as a teenager and became the leader of a gang. In an interview with Psychotronic Video, she said, "We had leather motorcycle jackets, jeans and boots and we kicked butt." At 13, she was married in Hernando, Mississippi, a short-lived union arranged by her parents and the family of her 17-year-old groom.

Tura Satana during her years as "Miss Japan Beautiful"

Satana then came to Los Angeles at age 13 with a fake ID and tried her hand at blues singing. When that failed, she started modeling as a bathing suit photography model and posed nude for the silent screen comic Harold Lloyd, who did not know she was underage. Lloyd told Satana she should be in films because she was photogenic. While working as a photographic model, Satana contracted makeup poisoning and could not wear any makeup due to the ensuing skin erosions. She returned to Chicago to live with her parents and started dancing. Satana danced at the Club Rendevouz in Calumet City, Illinois, where she was known as Galatea, the Statue that Came to Life. She was offered a raise to become a stripper. She eventually became a successful exotic dancer, traveling from city to city and working with Rose Le Rose, Maxine Martin, The Skyscraper Girl, Tempest Storm, Candy Barr and Stunning Smith the Purple Lady. Satana credited silent film star and 3D photographer Harold Lloyd with giving her the confidence to pursue a career in show business: "I saw myself as an ugly child. Mr. Lloyd said, 'You have such a symmetrical face, the camera loves your face... you should be seen.'"[3]

At 19, Satana got pregnant, but continued dancing for the next eight months, earning a typical weekly salary of about $1,500.

Acting career

During her early career, Satana appeared on television shows such as Burke's Law, The Greatest Show On Earth, Hawaiian Eye, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. She also appeared as a dancer in Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? with Dean Martin and Elizabeth Montgomery. That same year, she had a cameo as a Parisian prostitute in the musical Irma La Douce with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine.

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.

Faster Pussycat! Kill Kill!

Satana's most noted screen role is Varla in the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!--a very aggressive and sexual female character for which she did all of her own stunts and fight scenes.[4] Renowned film critic Richard Corliss called her performance "...the most honest, maybe the one honest portrayal in the Meyer canon and certainly the scariest."[5]

Originally titled The Leather Girls, the film is an ode to female violence, based on a concept created by Russ Meyer and screenwriter Jack Moran. Both felt at her first audition that Satana was "definitely Varla."[5] The film was shot on location in the desert outside Los Angeles during days above 100 degrees and freezing nights, with Satana clashing regularly with teenage co-star Susan Bernard, because of Susan's mother disrupting the set. Meyer said she "was extremely capable. She knew how to handle herself. Don't fuck with her! And if you fuck with her, do it well! She might turn on you!"[5]

She was fully responsible for adding key elements to the visual style and energy of the production, including her costume, makeup, usage of martial arts, dialogue and the use of spinning tires in the death scene of the main male character.[6] Meyer cited the extreme tension on the set caused by Satana as the primary reasons for the film's lasting fame. "She and I made the movie," said Meyer.[7] Meyer came to greatly regret not using Satana in his subsequent productions.[8]

Later years

After making Ted V. Mikels' The Doll Squad in 1973, Satana was shot by a former lover. She later found employment in a hospital, a position she kept for four years. She had studied nursing at Firmin Deloos Hospital. She was then briefly employed as a dispatcher for the Los Angeles Police Department. In 1981, her back was broken in a car accident. She spent the next two years in and out of hospitals, having two major operations and approximately fifteen others.

Personal life

Satana dated Elvis Presley but turned down his marriage proposal.[9] Satana married a retired Los Angeles police officer in 1981, and remained married until her husband died in October 2000. She has two daughters from a previous relationship. Her older daughter Kalani had a cameo role in Mikels' Ten Violent Women. She had remained friends with Mikels till her death.

Death

Satana died on February 4, 2011, in Reno, Nevada, United States. Her long-time manager, Siouxzan Perry, stated the cause of death as heart failure.[10]

Selected filmography

  • Irma La Douce (1963)
  • Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
  • Our Man Flint (1966) (uncredited)
  • The Astro-Zombies (1969)
  • The Doll Squad (1974)
  • Man Hands and Swollen Glands (1990)
  • Mark of the Astro-Zombies (2002)
  • Sugar Boxx (2008)
  • The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009)
  • The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels (as herself) (2010)

Tributes

Alternative metal band Tura Satana are named after her and Argentinian band Babasonicos has a song in her honor, ¡Viva Satana!

Seattle industrial band Kill Switch...Klick released a four song EP in 2008 featuring Super Amanda on vocals performing four different mixes of the Tura Satana Tribute song "Hemi Charger."

Further reading

  • Frasier, David K. (1998). Russ Meyer : The Life and Films : A Biography and A Comprehensive, Illustrated, and Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co. ISBN 0-7864-0472-8. 
  • McDonough, Jimmy (2005). Big Bosoms and Square Jaws : The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 0-224-07250-1. 
  • Meyer, Russ (2000). A Clean Breast : The Life and Loves of Russ Meyer (3 Volume Set). El Rio, TX: Hauck Pub Co. ISBN 0-9621797-2-8. 
  • Paul, Louis (2008). "Tura Satana", Tales From the Cult Film Trenches; Interviews with 36 Actors from Horror, Science Fiction and Exploitation Cinema. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 199–203. ISBN 978-0-7864-2994-3. 
  • Des Barres, Pamela (2007). Let's Spend The Night Together.  Chapter 1 features Tura Satana.

References

  1. ↑ McDonough, Jimmy (2004). Big Bosoms and Square Jaws, 158–159. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 McDonough pg. 159
  3. ↑ McDonough pp 160-161
  4. ↑ Schwartz, Adolph (2004). A Clean Breast. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 McDonough pg 167
  6. ↑ McDonough, pg 173
  7. ↑ McDonough, pg 178
  8. ↑ McDonough, pp 176-179
  9. ↑ Des Barres, Pamela (2008). Let's Spend the Night Together. 
  10. ↑ Artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

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