Femmes Fatales | Sep 6 2017 |
Don't it make her brown eyes blue (or her blue eyes brown).
Ramsay Ames is not well known today, but she had a nice career, appearing in movies such as The Black Widow, Below the Deadline, and The Mummy's Ghost. She also worked as a model, dancer, pin-up, and television host—the latter in both the U.S. and Spain. During her years in Spain, she became close with Ava Gardner, who was also living there, and we imagine they got up to all sorts of mischief. This is an amazing photo of Ames. The photographer obviously wanted to comment on the luminescence of her eyes by setting them against several pieces of gleaming jewelry. We were curious what color they were. A quick check on the internet—and this is the thing about the internet—turned up definitive assertions that they were brown, but others that they were blue. We'd prefer brown, but maybe they were both, like one of each. In any case, it's a very successful photo. We don't have a date on it, but we can safely assume it's from around 1945.
Femmes Fatales | Oct 4 2009 |
A strange light in your eyes.
We thought we'd go a bit more modern with our femme fatale today with this production still of American actress Theresa Russell from her 1984 remake of The Razor's Edge. It isn't a pulp style movie, but this shot certainly has the hallmarks. Russell also appeared in such films as Dario Argento's 1982 thriller Tenebre, the 1980 art film Bad Timing, and the 1987 murder mystery Black Widow. We won't be seeing her here again probably, but this was a nice appearance.