CATWOMAN Post 3: LEE MERIWETHER (BATMAN the movie 1966) and other Catwomen (click to enlarge)

I love Val Lewton's 1940's chillers, particularly The Curse of the Cat People, starring Simone Simon.  She was in the original wonderful Cat People, and the sequel really is by name only, as it has nothing to do with Cat People. But there is something magical and mysterious about it, and its one of those sequels, like the sequel to Frankenstein...The Bride of Frankenstein, that has more going for it than the original. A little girl conjures up an imaginary friend that appears to her in her backyard. Its her father's dead first wife, who she never knew. A very quirky and moody classic. And it has creepy neurotic Kathleen Byron, who played the mad nun in Black Narcissus.  Here she plays the despised daughter of the old woman the little girls befriends. Kathleen has a stare that could make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. In the original Cat People, she was one of the Cat People...always staring at Simone Simon in cafes, before she knew she was a Cat person also.
The last still is Lucille Ball in the sumptuous 40's Ziegfeld Follies. She whips her dancing cat women into place in this very over the top production number, after alighting from a carousel filled with beautiful women riding carousel horses. 

JEFF CHANDLER: RUGGED 50's LEADING MAN

Contrary to popular belief, Jeff Chandler's so called love for wearing women's clothing, has been retracted by former wife Esther Williams. (last photo) She now admits it was made up to help sell her autobiography after her publishers insisted she steam it up. Jeff Chandler (1918-1961) was 6' 4" and was a  rugged and charismatic leading man of the 1950's. As a boy he grew up knowing Susan Hayward and they later made one film together.  He was good friends with Sammy Davis Jnr and Tony Curtis, even offering Sammy his eye, when Sammy lost his.  He starred with Joan Crawford in one of my favorite movies, 'Female on the Beach'. By that time Joan was playing the 'older woman', as was Jane Wyman with Rock Hudson, and Joan certainly heated up the screen in this classic camp melodrama. Jeff sadly died at the age of 42, at the height of his popularity, from blood poisoning after spinal surgery for a slipped disc. His films included: 'Broken Arrow', 'Iron Man', 'Foxfire', 'The Tattered Dress'. 'Jeanne Eagels', 'Raw Wind in Eden'. 'Ten Seconds to Hell'. 'The Story of David' and 'Thunder in the Sun'. 

MY PARIS: Marche Vermaison market dollshop, Marais shops, Hardware Shop Paris.