Mary Astor in the Maltese Falcon
The Baroness
Anne Boleyn
Lucrezia Borgia
Anna Chapman
Delilah
Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker and Milady de Winter
Eve of the Apple
Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction
Jane Greer from Out of the Past
Mata Hari (2)
Rita Hayworth (2) The Lady From Shanghai, and in Gilda, Salome
Jezebel
Hedy Lamarr (2) in Samson and Delilah
Lola of Damn Yankees
Julie London
Lorelei the Mermaid
Queen Mab, the Winter Queen from the Harry Dresden novels
Lola Montez
Ornella Muti as Princess Aura in the 1980 “Flash Gordon”
Natasha Nogoodnik!
Michelle Pfeiffer – Makin’ Whoopie
Jessica Rabbit – Why Don’t You Do Right
Keri Russell (Elizabeth Jennings) on the Americans
Theresa Russell in Black Widow
Salome
Barbara Stanwyck (2) in Double Indemnity
Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct
Kathleen Turner (2) in Body Heat
As far as I’m concerned “femme fatale” is a type and can be real or fictional. Pictures would be nice, but not essential, but a reference to what fictional work would really help if we are to go further than this thread with the concept.
It’s a Velvet Underground song off the album The Velvet Underground and Nico that Nico sang. I’m not sure Nico was a femme fatale though, but here she is anyway:
But maybe not Catwoman (Halle Berry) or Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway).
Numerous Bond Girls qualify as femme fatales, including Miss Taro (Dr No), Magda Volpe (Thunderball), Tiffany Case (Diamonds are Forever), Xenia Onatopp (Goldeneye), Severine (Skyfall) and many others.
The Black Widow from Marvel Comics’ “the Avengers” was originally introduced as a femme fatale Soviet secret agent in early Iron-Man comic books. (of course she defected to the West eventually.)
Let me suggest Marozia di Roma. Click the link to read a synopsis of that amazing woman written by SDMB’s own Mississippienne, though even the Wikipedia article describes her era as a “pornocracy.”
While I agree that many Bond girls technically qualify as femme fatales, they are typically extremely incompetent ones. I don’t think a real femme fatale should fall in love with their target at the drop of the hat.
Mary Astor in the Maltese Falcon
The Baroness
The Black Widow from Marvel Comics’ “the Avengers”
Anne Boleyn
Lucrezia Borgia
Tiffany Case (Diamonds are Forever)
Anna Chapman
Cleopatra
Delilah
Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker and Milady de Winter
Eve of the Apple
Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction
Jane Greer from Out of the Past
Mata Hari (2)
Rita Hayworth (2) The Lady From Shanghai, and in Gilda, Salome
Jezebel
Eartha Kitt (Catwoman)
Hedy Lamarr (2) in Samson and Delilah
Lola of Damn Yankees
Julie London
Lorelei the Mermaid
Queen Mab, the Winter Queen from the Harry Dresden novels
Marozia di Roma
Lee Meriwether (Catwoman)
Messalina
Lola Montez
Ornella Muti as Princess Aura in the 1980 “Flash Gordon”
Julie Newmar (Catwoman)
Nico
Natasha Nogoodnik
Xenia Onatopp (Goldeneye)
Michelle Pfeiffer (2) – Makin’ Whoopie and (Catwoman)
Jessica Rabbit – Why Don’t You Do Right
Keri Russell (Elizabeth Jennings) on the Americans
Theresa Russell in Black Widow
Salome
Severine (Skyfall)
Barbara Stanwyck (2) in Double Indemnity
Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct
Miss Taro (Dr No)
Kathleen Turner (2) in Body Heat
Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice
Fiona Volpe in Thunderball
Magda Volpe (Thunderball)
My thought on the modern Femme Fatale is Taylor Swift. Not her voice or performance but she does seem fairly fatal when she slays her exes in song or at the Grammys.
That’s who I came in here to add.
Linda Fiorentino as Bridget Gregory/Wendy Kroy in The Last Seduction. Oh. My. God! I freaking love that movie! She is the most evil woman in any movie I’ve ever seen.
Good call! You’ve helped me to consider the Kerry Drake comic strip’s character Champagne. Whether a true “femme fatale” or just enough to play with a preteen’s libido, I asked a while back An Extremely Arcane Request that I’m still trying to get to the bottom of.
