Slideshow: The life and career of Pam Grier

Mom & Dad in 1962 at her sister Aunt Mignonne’s house

(Photo by Pam Grier)

Baby Rodney, Aunt Mignonne and Me in Denver

Photo by Pam Grier

Me, Dad, and Rod, ready to go for a ride

(Photo by Pam Grier)

Me, Mom and Rod, at church on Easter

Photo by Pam Grier

Me in junior high- seventh grade

Photo by Pam Grier

My senior high school photo. I’m wearing the sweater I shared with Krista

Photo by Pam Grier

The morning after the Miss Colorado Universe Beauty Pageant, where I won first runner-up.


(Photo by Pam Grier)

Me in the Miss KHOW Beauty Contest. I was so nervous during the contest that I put my swimsuit on backward!

(Photo by Pam Grier)

My Levi’s billboard, from the streets of Manhattan

(Photo by Pam Grier)

My friend Jack Silverman took this picture of a marquee in Chicago—a surprise to me.

(Photo by Pam Grier)

Gloria Steinem courageously put me on the cover of Ms. Magazine. Acclaimed author Jamaica Kincoid wrote the story.

(Courtesy of Ms. Magazine)

A fight scene from The Big Doll House

(Photo by Pam Grier)

Jet Magazine photo of Freddie Prinze and me attending the NAACP Awards in Los Angeles.

(Photo by Isaac Sutton)

A letter of apology from John Lennon

(Photo by Pam Grier)

Richard at his house in Northridge, California preparing to go for a bike ride with me. The infamous yellow Jaguar is in the foreground.

(Photo by Pam Grier)

Press picture of a wedding scene with Richard in Greased Lightening

(Courtesy of Warner Bros.)

My sister, Gina, Richard, and me at Mom’s house in Denver.

(Photo by Pam Grier)

Paul Newman and me on the set of Fort Apache, The Bronx

(Photo by Pam Grier)