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      • Pam Grier was a struggling UCLA film student in the late 1960s when she got an intriguing offer. To pay for school she was working part time as a switchboard operator at a casting agency.
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  4. www.factinate.com › people › pam-grier-factsFoxy Facts About Pam Grier, The Queen Of The 1970s

    Soon enough, Grier was in LA...but her first job wasn’t exactly glamorous. While interviewing to become a switchboard operator, she lied and said she knew how to operate the tech. While she managed to teach herself to use a switchboard, thankfully Grier wouldn’t need to use those skills for long.

  5. www.nytimes.com › pam-grier-interviewPam Grier on Maintaining Her Independence and Identity in ...

    Sep 15, 2019 · What an odd thing it is to have a career like Pam Grier’s. Her long, respectable tenure as an actress is illuminated in the public memory by two long-ago cinematic beacons — the first being ...

  6. www.msn.com › en-us › tvPam Grier Discusses Her Role in Them: The Scare and the ... - MSN

    Apr 25, 2024 · Pam Grier's first Hollywood role came in 1970 by way of 20th Century Fox's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, where she played a partygoer.From there she'd go on to star in a number of Blaxploitation ...

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  8. www.msn.com › en-us › entertainmentPam Grier Shares Stories From Her Most Memorable Roles - MSN

    The ’80s brought new opportunities for Grier to appear on television. She got the role of Valerie Gordon, an NYPD officer, on Miami Vice.Several years later, Grier got the role that she is most ...

  9. www.theguardian.com › film › 2022Pam Grier: ‘I was part of a female cinematic revolution’

    Sep 3, 2022 · Sat 3 Sep 2022 06.55 EDT. P am Grier was at the cinema with friends in the early 1990s, watching a violent thriller by a hot young director, when she experienced a minor shock. The motor-mouthed ...

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  10. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000427Pam Grier - Biography - IMDb

    Mini Bio. Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, NC, one of four children of Gwendolyn Sylvia (Samuels), a nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier Jr., an Air Force mechanic. Pam has been a major African-American star from the early 1970s. Her career started in 1971, when Roger Corman of New World Pictures launched her with The Big Doll House (1971 ...

  11. www.imdb.com › name › nm0000427Pam Grier - IMDb

    Actress: Jackie Brown. Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, NC, one of four children of Gwendolyn Sylvia (Samuels), a nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier Jr., an Air Force mechanic. Pam has been a major African-American star from the early 1970s.