Dominatrix女支配者 — a dominant woman Salutation

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“I got a lot of flack from that. You have to realize I came out of a very serious acting group. Part of that philosophy is not only to be the best you can be, but help support & promote properties and projects that are going to make the world a better place. Respectable colleagues thought I had totally sold out by taking some of the projects that I’d taken. The truth is I hadn’t been offered the other kind.”

We Salute You, Dyanne Thorne!

Previously we saluted:

Valerie Leon

Framke Janssen

Julie Newmar

Shirley Eaton

Phyllis Davis

And yet, the movie was quite successful. In 1975, “Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS” actually made it into the top 50 grossing movies of the year, thanks to 42nd street and a plethora of drive-in movie theaters that specialized in low-budget films. “Sexploitation” and “Gore” films found a niche in the drive-in theater market of the 1970’s. Ilsa even spawned two sequels, “Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks” (1976) and “Ilsa: the Tigress of Siberia” (1977) as well as leading Jess Franco to re-title his movie “Greta, the Mad Butcher” (1977) to “Ilsa: the Wicked Warden” in order to cash in on Ilsa’s popularity. Ilsa radically changed Dyanne Thorne’s life, first negatively but then positively, as Dyanne Thorne became a favorite at many cult-film conventions.