Pam Grier – SWINDLE Magazine

“That book taught me everything about being an actress,” says Grier, 59. Under Corman's mentorship, she landed her first movie roleâ€"a bit part in Beyond the Valley of the Dollsâ€"and went on to become the reigning queen of 1970s blaxploitation film. As feminism's bras burned bright, ... Grier talked to SWINDLE for two hours over the phone from her hotel room in Vancouver, where she was shooting the sixth season of the groundbreaking lesbian TV drama The L Word. ...