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Winnie Ruth Judd, 46, the "blonde tigress" trunk slayer of 20 years ago (she shot two women friends, dismembered the bodies, shipped them from Phoenix to Los Angeles), made her fourth escape from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Back of Beyond | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...climb the garment center escalator from dresses to frocks to gowns, she double-crosses Dailey by making a tricky deal with an unctuous department-store tycoon (George Sanders). But when the time comes to leave her partners bankrupt and give Sanders his price (payable in his bachelor quarters), the tigress melts into a woman with a weakness for long-suffering Salesman Dailey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 30, 1951 | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...picture's chief blunder is the miscasting of Patricia Neal, an able young Broadway actress whose throaty, stagy intensity in this featherweight role suggests a tigress in a cat show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Czerniawsky had a pale, dark-haired mistress named Renee Borni. Perhaps Mathilde was jealous. In any case, when the Gestapo pounced on the three of them in a frowsy little Montmartre hotel, Mathilde was more like a purring cat than a fighting tigress. Soon she was having an affair with a Gestapo corporal named Hugo Bleicher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: La Chatte | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...maquis in France and with a group of girl partisans in Italy. Later, he described his adventures with almost boyish enthusiasm ("One girl in particular will always remain in my memory . . . She was a tall, raven-haired girl with Irish blue eyes . . . as brave and dangerous as a tigress and was completely devoted to the British company . . ."). He felt lost when peace came. "I always expected to be killed in battle," he said. "Now I was left stranded, spared by some odd trick of fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death & the Captain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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