hedren family lion

Tippi Hedren an extraordinarily talented actress perhaps most memorable from her role is in Alfred Hitchcocks The Birds once had a pet lion named Neil. Thats when the family started to live with Neil the 400-pound 180 kg mature lion.

Tiger Queen Of Hollywood Tippi Hedren S Seemingly Domesticated Lion Once Attacked Her Own Daughter Melanie Griffith

Among those injured on the set included Hedren and her family.

. Life photographer Michael Rougier documented their life in 1971 and photographed the lion with the whole family. Hedren fed the babies with eyedroppers. In the early 1970s actress and animal rights activist Tippi Hedren cared for Neil a lion that sometimes shared a bed with Hedrens then-teenage daughter Melanie Griffith. Hedren looks back with nostalgia to the days when she and Marshall began raising lion and tiger cubs in their Sherman Oaks Calif home.

This series of intimate photographs from the 1970s of Neil the lion carries a chilling backstory that should remind us all that no matter how. Dubbed the Tiger Queen of Hollywood Tippi Hedren not only loves big cats but lives with 12-15 of them at a time at her home in Beverly Hills. Nathalie Kay Tippi Hedren born January 19 1930 is an American actress. Tippi hedren has recently come out and said We were stupid beyond belief to have that lion in our house which is how i found out about thisBUT yes its true once upon a time.

Hedrens unusual love for the big. According to the Life profile that featured the Hedren-Marshall family that lion weighed 400 pounds and was named Neil. The strange living situation was documented in Life Magazine in 1971. If you want to watch more interactions between humans and wild animals and have watched all you can watch of Tiger King you.

Tippi Hedren was the OG wild animal lover. This Family Lived With A Real Lion Back In 1971. Neil a 400 pound fit male lion. Hedren had to get 38 stitches after being bitten by a lion and also endured a fractured leg and multiple scalp.

Noel Marshall who at the time was married to Tippi Hedren and was the step-father to Melanie Griffith stars as Hank who lives with 110 tigers lions leopards and cheetahs. Hedren later wrote a memoir in 1988 and admitted.