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Barbara Steele Picture Gallery

"There are times, in certain conditions of light and color, when her face assumes a cast that doesn't appear quite human, which would be impossible for any other actress."

- Riccardo Freda

Babs doing the period thing with panache in Roger Corman's 1961 production of The Pit and the Pendulum.

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

- Francis Bacon

Babs looking like a distresed goddess in Antonio Margheriti's Castle of Blood.

"There was a depth to her. On the surface she was a beautiful brunette woman. Beneath that - and you could almost get poetic here -looking into her eyes, you could see layer upon layer. I could probably best, inadequately, describe it as a kind of exotic mystery."

- Roger Corman

The legend is born in Mario Bava's Black Sunday. I think you'll agree, Babs is fit to be tied! Bring on the cat-o-nine tails!!!

"Her remoteness and her curiously bizarre beauty - the eyes are too large - were to make her an icon of horror pictures, the very symbol of woman as vengeful, alien and "other".

- Peter Nichols

Babs lookin' my-T fine in Mario Caiano's Nightmare Castle. Woof!

"I've met a lot of my fans and a lot of them are completely charming. But I don't know what it is I represent to them. It's a mystery to me. I can only imagine that they sense something in me, and maybe what it is that they sense is some kind of psychic pain. Some kind of childhood grief. Some kind of isolation and some unresolved pain."

-Barbara Steele

Babs takes the weight off between takes.

"She's got an incredible strength and yet a mystery which is something you don't learn in acting school. It's just something that you have or you don't have. And she has it."

- Tim Burton

I scream! You scream! We ALL scream when Babs eats ice cream!

"The face of Steele explains why her mere presence suffices to trigger the perverse but fundamental and pleasurable fantasies that form the raw material of the horror genre itself and why her image, more than any other, is the emblem and fetish of the genre."

- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror edited by Phil Hardy

And now, the piece de resistance: Babs topless!!! WOOOOO-HOOOOO!

Go to page two of The Baron's Barbara Steele Picture Gallery.

You can see even more of the dreadfully delightful Ms. Steele on my pages for Mario Bava's Black Sunday and Riccardo Freda's The Horrible Dr. Hichcock.

Scope out Barbara Steele's filmography at the Internet Movie Database.

Want to learn more? Pay a visit to Silent Scream, the definitive Barbara Steele web page.

lost souls have borne witness to the bizarre beauty of Barbara Steele since 10/16/99.