Dyanne Thorne

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Dyanne Thorne
Dyanne Thorne
Birthdate: October 14, 1932 (1932-10-14) (age 75)
Birth location: Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Birth name: Dyanne Maurer
Spouse(s): Howard Maurer
Measurements: 37D-22-35
Hair color: Blond
Skin color: White
Natural breasts: Yes
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Alias(es): Lahna Monroe / Rosalee Stein / Diane Thorne / Penni Walters
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Dyanne Thorne (born October 14, 1932, in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA) is an American actress and model. Due to her commanding figure and large breasts, she was usually typecast into a sexual and physical abusive female warden type. The typecast started as she took on the character of "Ilsa" in the Ilsa series of films.

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Thorne has starred in dozens of roles, but is most remembered for the role of the eponymous warden character in the Ilsa series of films. The buxom and lusty Ilsa character sexually and physically abused her (usually, but not always, female) prisoners. The character typecasted her for many similar roles in women-in-prison films.

Her last and also most mainstream feature film role was as James Belushi's transsexual father in the 1987 film Real Men (a point James Belushi happily stressed to his friend by grabbing her breasts).

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[edit] Later years

Contrary to some publications, Thorne did start but not complete her degree in Anthropology. Instead, during 10 years of simultaneous acting, she has earned a Ph.D. in Comparative religion. [1][2]

Today she and her husband Howard (both had roles in five same movies) are ordained ministers, who own an alternative wedding business in Las Vegas, Nevada. They conduct scenic outdoor weddings as an alternative to a traditional wedding chapel. [1][2]

[edit] Trivia

  • According to Celebrity Sleuth magazine, her natural measurements were already 37C-17-33 at age 15.[citation needed]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b A SCENIC WEDDING... The Alternative To A Chapel Wedding. Retrieved on 2007-09-30.
  2. ^ a b Steve Graf and Randy Waage (2007). A retroCRUSH INTERVIEW WITH THE STAR OF THE "ILSA" MOVIES. Retrocrush. Retrieved on 2007-09-30. “My earned degree is as a professor of comparative religions.”

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