Genre Bids Farewell to Two Femme Fatales
This holiday season brought forth the regrettable deaths of two powerful genre women who helped change the face of female perception. According to the Associated Press, pulp-fiction film star Anne Savage (87) died at a nursing home on Christmas Day “after complications following a series of strokes,” said her manager, Kent Adamson. While Savage is famed for almost 40 successful roles throughout the 1940’s and 1950’s, her iconic role in Edgar G. Ulmer's 1945 Detour, as the aggressive and sexy cigarette-smoking femme fatale earned her a lifetime of genre street cred.
Also on Christmas Day, according to the HollywoodReporter.com, Eartha Kitt, known predominantly for a vibrant musical career and over 60 film and TV credits died at the age of 81 of complications with colon cancer. Kitt, known to the genre world as “Catwoman”, starred as the slinky yet aggressive black-suit wearing feline on TV’s Batman.
At FEARnet, our thoughts go out to the Savage and Kitt families during this difficult time.
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