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Since Bob Kane created Catwoman in his Batman comic in 1940, a pride of felines has prowled Hollywood: Julie Newmar (top) was Catwoman on the '60s television series Batman, replaced by Lee Meriwether (who also appeared in the 1966 Batman film) and then by Eartha Kitt (second from top). In the '57 film Cat Girl, Barbara Shelley believes she has a psychic link to a leopard. Simone Simon (third from top) starred in the '42 psychological thriller Cat People, which was remade in '82 with Nastassia Kinski. Linda Stirling (bottom) plays a jungle crime fighter in the '44 serial The Tiger Woman; she prowls in real jaguar skin and tiger ears.


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Posted Aug 09, 1991 | Published in issue #78 Aug 09, 1991 | Order Article Reprints