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Video Vixens (1975)

"What Pam Grier was to blaxploitation movies, what Bruce Lee was to kung fu movies, what Burt Reynolds was to good-ol'-boy movies, Rainbeaux Smith was to cheerleader movies. She truly has, without trying whatsoever, a Marilyn Monroe quality. She doesn't look like Monroe at all; she just has that kind of vacantness. She's not so much acting as she is existing. Imagine Marilyn Monroe as kind of a '70s hippie junky, then you kind of have Rainbeaux Smith." -- Quentin Tarentino

And on this date in 2002, the remarkable beauty who loomed so ethereal that the world naturally called her “Rainbeaux” departed this mortal coil.

Learn more and mourn with Mr Skin after the jump.

This past April I, Alix Lakehurst, was named Tromette of the Month. This placed me in an elite company of previous monthly Tromette honorees, as well as the women of Troma Films themselves-the original, immortal Tromettes who ignite the silver screen with searing star power and fresh, funky eroticism as unique as Troma itself.