Fantastic Femmes: Dorothy Dandridge in Tarzan's Peril...UNCUT on TCM!

Saturday morning, 12:00pm (EST)
Right after two chapters of Ace Drummond (A pretty entertaining 1930s serial)

Dorothy Dandridge in her only genre role as Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba.

The working title of this film was Tarzan's Mate in Peril.
It's an original story, not based on a Tarzan novel or short story.
The first Tarzan picture to have new footage featuring the cast shot in Africa, instead of Hollywood with Africa stock footage.
According to various Hollywood Reporter news items, exterior filming took place from July to September 1950 in Kenya (which was then British East Africa), including Meru National Park, as well as Uganda and Tanganyika.
After eight weeks of interior shooting at the RKO-Path Studios in Culver City, CA, the production finshed filming in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City.
Here's the trailer (in French)...

The shooting of one of the scenes in Tarzan's Peril is featured in the bioflick Introducing Dorothy Dandridge starring Halle Berry as Dorothy...

Our Valentine's Day Gift to You...Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson

Halle Berry IS Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson in Die Another Day.

Oh yeah, Pierce Brosnan's there, too.

Bond Girls Illustrations by Magdalena Babińska

Here's an interesting series of illustrations of "Bond Girls" (actresses who've appeared as heroines, villainesses or, to be polite, set decoration in the 007 film series by talented artist Magdalena Babińska.
Shown is Halle Berry as Jinx from Die Another Day.

Fantastic Femmes PixPost--Halle Berry Redux

We end the month with a PixPost of a previous Fantastic Femme fave...

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Didn't think so!

Fantastic Femmes PixPost: Halle Berry IS Ororo Munroe aka Storm!

It's MY blog, and I felt like doing it!You got a problem with that?

Fantastic Femmes--Maya Rudolph

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HERE!

Costume Comparison: Halle Berry IS Storm!

 In place of my usual pithy prose, the first in an ongoing series of costume comparisons between comic and live-action versions of characters.
First up:
Storm's original Dave Cockrum-designed costume

and the film version as worn by Halle Berry in the first X-Men film.

Ain't it a shame they didn't let her wear the comics version? ;-)

Interestingly, they modified the comics version to somewhat reflect the movie's design...

Fantastic Femmes--Halle Berry

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