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Femmes fatales were standard fare in hardboiled crime stories in 1930s pulp fiction.. A femme fatale (/ ˌ f ɛ m f ə ˈ t æ l,-ˈ t ɑː l / FEM fə-TA(H)L, French: [fam fatal]; lit. ' fatal woman '), sometimes called a maneater, [1] Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising ...
Carmen Miranda, Lupe Vélez (notably in the eight-film Mexican Spitfire series that lent its name to the stock character) Femme fatale: A beautiful, alluring, woman who is also traitorous, cunning and deceptive. She draws men into a honey trap, and may be motivated by revenge or money. Catherine Tramell (Basic Instinct) Ruth Wonderly (The ...
[5] [6] [7] Suslova has often been portrayed as a femme fatale. [8] Fyodor Dostoyevsky called her one of the most remarkable women of his time. [7] Her own works include a short story Pokuda, published in Mikhail Dostoyevsky's Vremya magazine in 1861, Do svadby (1863), [7] and the autobiographical Chuzhaya i Svoy, published in 1928. [9]
For the 1944 film of the same name, Barbara Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. The character is considered one of the best femme fatale roles in film noir history. [ 1 ] The character was ranked as the #8 film villain of the first 100 years of American cinema by the American Film Institute in the AFI's 100 Years ...
A femme fatale (/ ˌ f æ m f ə ˈ t ɑː l / or / ˌ f ɛ m f ə ˈ t ɑː l /; French: [fam fatal], literally "lethal woman"), is a prevalent and indicating theme to the style of film noir. The portrayal of women in film noir, and more specifically the term “femme fatale”, has been a topic of intrigue and fascination for decades. The ...
Femme Fatale is a 2002 erotic thriller film [2] [3] written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars Antonio Banderas and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. [4] Upon its release, Femme Fatale received mixed reviews from film critics and became a box office flop.
It popularised the word vamp (short for vampire), [2] which describes a femme fatale who causes the moral degradation of those she seduces, first fascinating and then exhausting her victims. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry , finding it "culturally, historically, or ...
Fatal Woman may refer to: . the concept of the "femme fatale"The Fatal Woman, a 1915 Dutch film; an alternate title for Femme Fatale, a 1991 film; Norine Fournier Lattimore, professionally known as "Dolores", also referred to as the "Fatal Woman of the London Studios"