# Tura Satana dies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 7, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tura-satana-dies/570507 "2011-02-07T12:17:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tura-satana-dies/570507/1 "2011-02-07T12:17:53Z")
Best known for her role in **Faster Pussycat, kill, Kill!** , but I remember her best from **The Astro-Zombies**. Her over-made-up face , her exotic style, and her formidable bust all made her memorable.She was 72 [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap\_en\_mo/us\_obit\_tura\_satana](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_en_mo/us_obit_tura_satana) ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tura-satana-dies/570507/2 "2011-02-07T13:11:08Z")
Aww, that’s sad. I only know her from _Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!_ but I thought she had a unique star quality. Definitely one of those films where I was cheering her on despite the fact that she’s (sort of) the bad guy. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2011, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tura-satana-dies/570507/3 "2011-02-07T18:40:05Z")
I only know of her from Faster Pussycat, but when I saw it on TCM a couple years ago they had a brief interview with her. She seemed like a really fun broad – just clear that she had a ball making movies and having dudes ogle her, but wasn’t hung up on past glories like some. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tura-satana-dies/570507/4 "2011-02-08T00:14:30Z")
I didn’t know until reading one of her obituaries that, like Bettie Page and Marylin Monroe, she’d modeled for Harold Lloyd’s [nudies](http://www.photographersgallery.com/by_artist.asp?id=170) (2-click rule: she’s in the thumbnail with the spider. Venus de Milo-level NSFW) ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tura-satana-dies/570507/5 "2011-02-08T01:16:17Z")
Wow. I just saw her on the rock documentary _Let’s Spend the Night_ about rock groupies. She was describing how Elvis proposed to her and she turned him down because their marriage would ruin his career (since she was an exotic dancer). She seemed fascinating and was still quite attractive into older age. How sad that she’s gone now, but I bet she’s having fun in heaven with the King. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tura-satana-dies/570507/6 "2011-02-08T01:21:25Z")
[Here’s a photo of her safe for work](http://www.toutlecine.com/images/star/0002/00023245-tura-satana.html), taken from _Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!_ ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tura-satana-dies/570507/7 "2011-02-08T01:23:06Z")
What’s interesting is some other softcore ladies also left us as I mentioned in this [thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=596165)