Fantastic Femmes PixPost--Halle Berry Redux

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

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Fantastic Femmes PixPost: Dorothy Dandridge IS Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba

In her only genre role, Dorothy Dandridge played Melmendi, Queen of the Ashuba in 1951's Tarzan's Peril.

An original story, not based on any of Edgar Rice Burroughs' stories, the film was the third of five movies starring Lex Barker as Tarzan and it was directed by Byron Haskin, who went on to A-list genre films like 1953's War of the Worlds.
It was also the first Tarzan film to have scenes shot on location in Africa.
(Previous films used existing stock footage from other movies.)

One of the scenes from the film is recreated in the biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge starring Fantastic Femme Halle Berry as Dorothy playing Melmendi.
Here's a comparison between a scene in the original film and the biopic's version of it.

Melmendi, nor her tribe, the Ashuba, have appeared in any Tarzan story (in any media) since...

Note: technically, this is a Pix Post, but it's also a Hero(ine) History and Fantastic Femme entry!

Fantastic Femmes PixPost; Jessica Marie Alba: the Sequel

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

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PixPost--Whitney Houston from 1985 to 2005

1985

Portrait 1985

American Music Association 1987

1988

Grammy 1988

1990

1993

1995

1996

Grammy 2000

2005

To celebrate the return of Fantastic Femme Whitney Houston and the debut of her new album I Look to You on Monday, August 31, we present our very first PixPost (a selection of pix covering a certain event or person)

Enjoy!