Word: lionesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BORN FREE. Fine photography displaces some of the African lore in Joy Adamson's delightful book about the taming and untaming of Elsa the lioness, and this filmed biography glows with dusty golden beauty, the lion's share of it supplied by the big cats themselves...
Born Free is a posthumous triumph for Elsa the lioness, one of the queen beasts of her time and now the subject of a lively movie biography that should leave audiences purring with satisfaction. Heroine of two bestsellers by Joy Adamson, wife of a senior game warden in Kenya, Elsa began her well-documented career as an orphan cub, became a 300-lb. lapful of love and affection, but ultimately returned to her wild, natural way of life. The clincher of this zoological success story is that Elsa, once taught by her human protectors how to stalk and kill, remained...
...Lion in Winter, by James Goldman, uncages a good roaring lion (Robert Preston) and a fearsomely impressive lioness (Rosemary Harris), but they spend the evening toying with a tiny blind mouse of a script...
...pieces by the critics," she remembers. "So I changed the pace a bit. In my next film I played a call girl. In the following one, a prostitute." In 1962 the pace change included a role as William Holden's co-star in The Lion. She became his lioness for two years, finally broke away when Holden returned to his wife and cubs last year...
...frantically and got my hand free, but left shreds of flesh on Nero's teeth. Then he sank his teeth into my right leg until they actually penetrated to the bone and he started to drag me to one side of the arena. Just then he noticed the lioness, and went to her. I was unconscious the better part of twelve days, and they just about gave...