TURA! TURA! TURA!

7-10-12  FOUR DEGREES FROM IGGY..Child bride, internment camps, martial arts, gang leader, model, burlesque queen, police dispatcher, revenger, singer and subject of songs, movies, TV, Harold Lloyd, Billy Wilder, Tempest Storm, ELVIS, Russ Meyer, a cult legend; these are all part of the amazing life of the incredible TURASATANA, born today in 1938. Like Bogie as Rick, Boris as The Monster, Bela as Drac, MM as Lorelei, and Laughton as Bligh, Tura'a VARLA in Russ Meyer's "Faster Pussycat, KILL! KILL!" is one of American cultures most indelible icons. And she wrote much of her own dialogue, too ("I don't beat clocks, I beat PEOPLE!").

  IG/CONNECT: Tura worked with Russ who worked with Steve Jones ( "Who Killed Bambi?") who worked with IGGY.

FUN FACT # 1 : A young ELVIS proposed marriage to Tura, who turned The King down but kept the ring. Imagine a child by ELVIS and Tura!

FUN FACT # 2 : At the end of an episode of The Man FromU.N.C.L.E. ("Finny Foot Affair") Napoleon Solo asks Tura's character if she is going to join her dead boss in death by committing Hara Kiri. She replies: "You got the wrong century, JACK!"

FUN FACT # 3 : Varla is the first female movie character to kill a man with her bare hands.