| skippy0001 | 28 Nov 2016 4:49 a.m. PST |
Best 'Bad Girl' in film, TV etc. Barbara Carrera
Kathleen Turner
Rosalind Cash
Anna May Wong
Veronica Lake help me here, my mind is awash… |
 etotheipi  | 28 Nov 2016 5:33 a.m. PST |
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| Ed von HesseFedora | 28 Nov 2016 6:13 a.m. PST |
Jane Greer as "Kathie" in "Out of the Past." |
 Jeff Ewing  | 28 Nov 2016 6:13 a.m. PST |
So you want actress rather than character? I nominate Rita Hayworth's perforomance in the film _Gilda_, with Barbra Stanwyck's in _The Postman Always Rings Twice_ a close second. |
| Ed von HesseFedora | 28 Nov 2016 6:14 a.m. PST |
Jeff, Do you mean Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity?" I thought Lana Turner was in "Postman?" Either of those plus Gilda are good choices! |
| Jeff Ewing | 28 Nov 2016 6:16 a.m. PST |
Yes, sorry, shouldn't compose while commuting. |
| Frederick | 28 Nov 2016 6:24 a.m. PST |
Zoe Saldana and Halle Barrie in addition to the excellent choices above |
| skippy0001 | 28 Nov 2016 7:37 a.m. PST |
Either characters or actresses that played them-good clarification, thanks. |
| Gunfreak | 28 Nov 2016 8:05 a.m. PST |
If Character? Then Milady de Winter from Three musketeers has to be high up on any list! |
| Wackmole9 | 28 Nov 2016 8:10 a.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 28 Nov 2016 8:18 a.m. PST |
Kathleen Turner in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and in Body Heat. "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."
"You're not very smart. I like that in a man." |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 28 Nov 2016 9:23 a.m. PST |
Golly,Film Noir is full of them. One definite pick is Peggy Cummins as Annie Laurie in "Gun Crazy"--1950. Doomed boyfriend: "Why can't you just rob people? Why do you have to kill 'em?" |
 FingerandToeGlenn | 28 Nov 2016 9:31 a.m. PST |
Lauren Bacall in To Have or Have Not. Not exactly a Mata Hari role, but she knew how to use her feminine wiles to get what she wanted. |
| skippy0001 | 28 Nov 2016 9:34 a.m. PST |
It was stated somewhere that Lauren Bacall was the Thinking Man's Pinup. Dragon Lady -Terry and the Pirates. Lucy Liu should play her. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 28 Nov 2016 9:49 a.m. PST |
As I've said before, I couldn't buy Mary Astor as a credible femme fatale in the Falcon. Bogart obviously saw right through her. The novel's Spade was a lot more conflicted. Couldn't buy her in "Red Dust", either. How any man with blood in his veins could pass up Jean Harlow for her Ice Queen character is beyond me. Here's a "literal" Femme Fatale: Simone Simon in the original Cat People. |
| William Warner | 28 Nov 2016 1:15 p.m. PST |
I agree on the Dragon Lady! Take a look: link |
| Greylegion | 28 Nov 2016 5:47 p.m. PST |
Rosamund Pike as Amy Dunne in Gone Girl. Bad chick in that flick. |
 miniMo | 28 Nov 2016 8:55 p.m. PST |
Bebe Daniels as Ruth Wonderly in The Maltese Falcon (1931).
[In this pre-code version, the character actually got to do bad things and not just say that she was bad!]
Rita Hayworth as Elsa "Rosalie" Bannister in Lady From Shanghai (1947). |
| Fish | 29 Nov 2016 4:21 a.m. PST |
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| abelp01 | 29 Nov 2016 5:25 a.m. PST |
Anothet vote for Lauren Bacall! |
| Sloth1963 | 29 Nov 2016 7:10 a.m. PST |
Veronica Lake is it. At least for me :) |
| Jeff Ewing | 29 Nov 2016 1:27 p.m. PST |
I forgot: Linda Fiorentino as Bridget Gregory in _The Last Seduction_. |
looks for scenario material in a World War IV boardgame.