Dyanne Thorne

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In Memoriam: Dyanne Thorne passed away in Las Vegas on January 28, 2020, at the age of 83 due to pancreatic cancer. She was born on October 14, 1936, in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, and was known for her work as an actress, nude model in pin-up magazines, and as a former showgirl in Las Vegas. Thorne became well-known for her striking figure and ample bosom, leading to her typecasting as a seductive and abusive female warden in film roles. Her typecasting was cemented by her performances in the infamous "Ilsa" series of sexploitation films, which played a significant role in the development of the Nazi exploitation genre.

Her film career began in 1964 when she portrayed "Lahna Monroe" in the sexploitation film Sin in the Suburbs, directed by Joseph W. Sarno. Her co-star, Audrey Campbell, later gained notoriety for her role as the dominatrix Olga in a series of "roughie" films. Thorne continued to star in various exploitation films and sex comedies, including Love Me Like I Do (1970) and Wam-Bam, Thank You, Spaceman (1973), before rising to fame as Ilsa, a brutal Nazi dominatrix echoing Campbell's character.

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1974) became a surprising success, generating three sequels and giving birth to numerous imitators, thereby establishing a distinct subgenre within Nazi exploitation films. Thorne's portrayal of Ilsa is marked by her depiction as a sadistic jailer who mistreats her predominantly female prisoners. The four films in the series include Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975), widely regarded as the first and most notable in the genre. Filmed on the sets of Hogan's Heroes, Thorne's Ilsa is a voluptuous commandant running a POW camp during World War II, where she performs cruel and questionable medical experiments on her captives, including sexual assaults; male prisoners who failed to comply were castrated. Despite her demise in the original film, her character was resurrected for the sequel, Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976), in which she captures Western women to train them as sex slaves in a fictional Arab setting.

The third installment, Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia, takes place in 1953, just before Stalin’s regime fell. In this film, Ilsa oversees a Russian gulag where she is attended to by guards eager to win her favor. As Stalin dies, she finds herself evacuating this oppressive place. The final entry, Greta - Haus ohne Männer (1977) (also known as Ilsa, The Wicked Warden), is set in a corrupt Latin American regime. In a departure from her Nazi persona, Thorne plays the character Greta, a bisexual prison warden overseeing a rehabilitation center