Instead of the rivers of hair and beestung lips there is a neat coif and an oddly shortened upper lip, which makes Mrs Brown look less like a medieval temptress and more like an amiable rodent.
And "Jupiter's Darling" (1954) casts Esther Williams as the unlikely temptress of Howard Keel's Hannibal.
She was a temptress and a vixen, and her name was Tokyo Rose.
Searching for that archetypal image of the sulky, fin-de-siècle symbolist temptress?
WHEN Hedy Lamarr arrived in Hollywood she was seen as a rare and desirable acquisition: a genuine decadent, a temptress to send male pulses racing, and create envy in women's hearts.
In 1987 and 1989 she received best actress Academy Award nominations for her roles as a psychopathic temptress in the thriller Fatal Attraction and as the scheming Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons.
A quintessential example of the noir temptress is Kathie Moffat, as portrayed by Jane Greer in Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947).
She made her debut under the screen name Nadira in 1943 and rose to fame with her most notable film, Shree 420 (1955), in which she played a seductive temptress, a part that became her signature role.
In a series of debates not unlike those in Paradise Regained between the Son and Satan, Samson engages Manoa, his father; Dalila, his temptress; and Harapha, a stalwart Philistine warrior.
In the play Cleopatra is a spoiled and vicious 16-year-old child rather than the 38-year-old temptress of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.
Although the thinly disguised Huey Long drama A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) did not deliver on its promise, it offered mesmerizing performances by Cagney as the demagogue and Anne Francis as the temptress Flamingo McManamee.
