Like a black comet streaking across the drive-in skies and sexploitation big screens, foxy, funky and furious African American actress Juanita Brown appeared like a flash of midnight illumination, and just as suddenly she was gone. Read more...
Like a black comet streaking across the drive-in skies and sexploitation big screens, foxy, funky and furious African American actress Juanita Brown appeared like a flash of midnight illumination, and just as suddenly she was gone. Low-brow aesthetes in the year 1974 were uplifted by visions of Juanita almost everywhere they looked, especially if they looked at Willie Dynamite (1974), Foxy Brown (1974), Black Street (1974) or Caged Heat (1974). The caramel-colored sass-pot went far, and she went fast, but, alas, at a pace that couldn’t last.
