Two of the prisoners attract her attention - a hot-blooded redhead, and the prison-informant blonde.
While we are talking about her beauty, skills and professional life, we want to now take you on a ride through a Pam Grier bikini photo gallery.
The purpose is to teach people about organic gardening, health and nutrition among other things.
Tarantino said that she may have been cinema's first female action star.
In 1988, she was diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer and told she only had 18 months to live.
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