We had a fair amount of fun identifying (and ranking) some “voluptuous” women recently. This time, with no examples from me to get it started, who do you think of when the term “femme fatale” is mentioned?
Name as many as you like – but please link to picture(s) of your candidates.
Jane Greer from Out of the Past.
Mamacita, Bubba! Right on.
Really though? A femme fatale has her own nefarious agenda, like Mary Astor in the Maltese Falcon. Not to be confused with your basic hard-bitten broad, who may or may not have a heart of gold.
Back before I was aware of the term, Hedy Lamarr (1913–2000) was the image I think of as my first encounter with the type. Damn, she would be 100 this year!
Not necessarily. One of many definitions:
The first would be somebody like Mata Hari, but the second could be most anybody.
A working definition – for purposes of this thread at least – can be found at this Wikipedia article.
Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity.
(A mere link to an image won’t do it; you need to see her flirting with the big lug, and then half-orgasming while he offs her well-insured husband at her signal.)
And likewise, Kathleen Turner in Body Heat.
Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker or Milady de Winter.
Which is a pretty good indication that the second is a lousy definition.
Most femme fatales (that we know of) are fictional.
Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah (and others I think. White Cargo, maybe?)
Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity
Kathleen Turner in Body Heat
Theresa Russell in Black Widow
Just about any film noir dame who plays the protagonist for a sap, and just about anyone who has the title role in a film called Black Widow.
That’s what I get for being slow.
Michelle Pfeiffer, Makin’ Whoopie
Why Don’t You Do Right, Jessica Rabbit
Two of those links are funky. The other two okay.
And her modern day analogy - Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) on the Americans
Rita Hayworth, The Lady From Shanghai
And the real-world counterpart, Anna Chapman.
'Nuff said.
Summarizing through Post #19:
Jane Greer from Out of the Past.
Julie London.
Mary Astor in the Maltese Falcon.
Hedy Lamarr (2) in Samson and Delilah
Mata Hari
Barbara Stanwyck (2) in Double Indemnity.
Kathleen Turner (2) in Body Heat.
Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker
Milady de Winter
Theresa Russell in Black Widow
Michelle Pfeiffer – Makin’ Whoopie
Jessica Rabbit – Why Don’t You Do Right,
Natasha Nogoodnik!
Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) on the Americans
Rita Hayworth, The Lady From Shanghai
Anna Chapman.
The Baroness.
