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Greta Garbo, one of the most famous temptresses ever to appear on screen, died in 1990.
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Indeed, the movie’s sexiest scene finds our temptress entering Kei’s room and wordlessly taking nude photos of herself on his bed.
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Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 22 Sep. 2024
On television in the 1960s, Rowlands played the deaf-mute wife of a detective in the NBC series 87th Precinct and was the temptress Adrienne Van Leyden on ABC’s Peyton Place.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The ambitious temptress is remade and in the process defanged.
—Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024
This squinty vantage on Southern California, as a temptress who dashes hopes, also was evident in his script for Tequila Sunrise (1988), which starred Mel Gibson as a retired drug dealer, Kurt Russell as a cop and Michelle Pfeiffer as the femme fatale.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 22 Sep. 2024
On television in the 1960s, Rowlands played the deaf-mute wife of a detective in the NBC series 87th Precinct and was the temptress Adrienne Van Leyden on ABC’s Peyton Place.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The ambitious temptress is remade and in the process defanged.
—Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2024
This squinty vantage on Southern California, as a temptress who dashes hopes, also was evident in his script for Tequila Sunrise (1988), which starred Mel Gibson as a retired drug dealer, Kurt Russell as a cop and Michelle Pfeiffer as the femme fatale.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Temptress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/temptress. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.
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temptress
noun
tempt·ress
ˈtem(p)-trəs 
: a woman who tempts
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