Modern Femmes Fatale: Part 51

Alyson Hannigan


Amber Heard


Brighdie Grounds


Carol Alt


Helena Bonham Carter


Jennifer Tilly


Joelle Carter in Justified (TV Series 2010)


Lara Stone


Minnie Driver in Owning Mahowny (2003)


Rianne Ten Haken

Adventures in Androgyny: Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau as “Thomas” in Jules & Jim (1962)

Rub-a-dub-dub: Lili St. Cyr

Lili St. Cyr and Dale Robertson prepare for a scene in Son of Sinbad (1955)

Inside Looking Out: Marilyn Monroe

The Seven Year Itch (1955)

Smoking in Bed: Nancy Kelly

Parachute Battalion (1941)

Sweater Girl: Susannah York

Susannah York and Lilli Palmer in Sebastian (1968)

For the Boys: Dorothy Donegan

Dorothy Donegan, pianist, and the Camp Robert Smalls swing band at NTS, Great Lakes. June 16, 1943

Bathing Beauties: Doris Day

Reflections: Sharon Tate

Valley Of the Dolls (1967)

Outlandish Hats: Carmen Miranda

That Night in Rio (1941)

The Eyes Have It: Yvonne de Carlo

Criss Cross (1949)

Bevy of Beauties: Mary Pickford's Tea Party

1928, Actresses at Mary Pickford's Tea Party
(Image © John Springer Collection/CORBIS)

Back row, Alice Day, June Collyer, Dorothy Gulliver, Gwen Lee, Molly O’Day, and Sally Eilers. Front row, Sue Carol, Lina Basquette, Mary Pickford, Lupe Velez, Flora Bramley, and Ann Christy.

Light and Shadow: Exile Express (1939)

Anna Sten, Alan Marshal & Jerome Cowan in Exile Express (1939)

On the Set: Marilyn Monroe

Wardrobe/makeup still of Marilyn Monroe for The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Holiday Honeys: St Patrick's Day

Lucille Ball


Adele Mara (Image © Bettmann/CORBIS)

The original caption for this photo was:

"April 1946 --- Actress Adele Mara is dressed for St. Patrick's Day. Perhaps the four leaf clovers will bring her luck. --- "

This does nothing to explain the fact that she appears to be about to heave a brick at someone, which is not a tradition that is generally associated with St Patrick's Day, as far as I know. Another slight incongruity is that St Patrick's Day was March 17th, 1946, so she's doing her clover-decorated brick chunking in the wrong month.

The Art of the Dangle: Geneviève Bujold

Modern Femmes Fatale: Part 50

Dree Hemingway


January Jones (Mad Men Season 4 Promo)


Anna Friel


Julia Alexandratou


Julianne Moore


Kate Winslet


Maggie Gyllenhaal


Theresa Russell in Whore (1991)


Trish Goff


Zooey Deschanel

Adventures in Androgyny: Eddie Cantor

Eddie Cantor with Barbara Weeks and Charlotte Greenwood in Palmy Days (1931)

Rub-a-dub-dub: Sophia Loren

Inside Looking Out: Ladies Behind Bars 21

Glynis Johns and Diana Dors in Young and Willing (1954)
(aka The Weak and the Wicked)

Smoking in Bed: Mamie Van Doren

Mamie Van Doren in Girls Town (1959)

Sweater Girl: Noreen Nash

Noreen Nash and William Bendix on the set of TV's "The Life of Riley," Aug. 8, 1959

For the Boys: Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich autographs the cast on the leg of TEC 4 Earl E. McEarland in a U.S. hospital in Belgium (1-24-1944)

Bathing Beauties: Nancy Carroll

Reflections: Leslie Caron

Outlandish Hats: María Corda

The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)

The Eyes Have It: Sylvia Sidney