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Who's your favorite fatal femme?

Lotta Little

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Not limited only to film noir fans, of course! In your opinion, which fictional female had knock 'em dead style? I grew up wanting to be Brenda Starr, Girl Reporter, but for favorite femme fatale, it's gotta be Gilda with her black satin gloves.
 

Ethan Bentley

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Greta Garbo

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imoldfashioned

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Number one is Cyd Charisse in the Broadway Rhythm ballet but I really like Jean Simmons in Angel Face too (great final scene).

She's not really fatal but I always loved Dorothy Malone in The Big Sleep.
 

dhermann1

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Hedy

Ah, yes. Hedy Lamarr. Must see flick: "Algiers". Where ultimate chick flick meets great film noir, meets several other genres. And if you can find it, the original French version, "Pepe Le Moko", with Jean Gabin.
Oh, and if you can find it (getting back to Hedy), "Ecstasy".
 

Fletch

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Mary Astor

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Always either the wrong woman or the woman wronged. With sad dark eyes and a delicate elegance, Mary was a Midwest river-town girl of German-Portuguese-Scots-Irish heritage, but she spoke and carried herself like the blue-chip society dame her name evoked. Yet she always betrayed something deeper. Something that could be passionate or desperate, loving or cruel. Something you wanted to protect, or savage, or both.
 

HadleyH

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Film Noir Femme Fatale, Lizabeth Scott...




"Do you think I fell for that fancy tripe you gave me? It's not a new story baby... You killed him, Why lie? "

-Bogart to Lizabeth Scott in "Dead Reckoning"

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the girl was baaaadddddddddddd :D
 

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