NOTHING COULD TAME HER – except LOVE!
A headline which deserves a groan. Here is where I would normally say, “This is my kind of lady.” But today I’m not so sure. Maybe this shows my age, but I think that I’m more the kind of monster who prefers to be slowly poisoned, rather than feeling like my love is a daily dance with an enraged lion tamer. Maybe if she had snakes for hair. Maybe.
You can tell it’s the early ’30s by the eyebrows and the amount of bleach that has been applied (not to mention the dress – rowr). One of my least favorite things about movie posters and book covers of this era? They were often more lurid than what they promoted, and I would guess that this is the case with The Hell Cat, unless this among the last of the movies that squeaked in before the Hays Code grew teeth in 1934.
P.S. The original of this beautiful lobby poster can be bought for 1500 clams on eBay, here.
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