 He noted that Grier was an actress of "beautiful face and astonishing form" and that she possessed a kind of "physical life" missing from many other attractive 

Grier subsequently played similar characters in the AIP films "Foxy Brown" (1974), "Sheba, Baby", and "Friday Foster" (both 1975).With the demise of blaxploitation later in the 1970s, Grier appeared in smaller roles for many years.She acquired progressively larger character roles in the 1980s, including a druggie prostitute in "Fort Apache, The Bronx" (1981), a witch in "Something Wicked this Way Comes" (1983).