We all know that Carol Baskin was not the first to use a killer animal to do a little body disposal.
What about a celebrity though?
Someone more famous than a streaming reality star.
What if I told you that a former A list mostly movie actress who has an offspring who is arguably more famous, knows all about some bodies disposed by a killer animal.
One was a drug dealer who was chasing after the family to be paid.
He ended up dead and fed to the animal.
The other was a gardener who got a little too close and died.
The family didn’t want any questions so the gardener was fed to the animal.
Tippi Hedren
Melanie Griffith
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Before ‘Tiger King’ Mania, Dakota Johnson’s Mom, Melanie Griffith, Was Attacked by Lions That Belonged to Her Own Mother, Tippi Hedren
Melanie Griffith had to have reconstructive surgery after she was attacked by a big cat on ‘Roar’
Johnson’s famous family doesn’t just include her mother, Griffith, or her dad Don Johnson, or even her former stepfather, Antonio Banderas. It also includes her grandmother, Tippi Hedren, who starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s famous film The Birds. And before Tiger King mania or Carol Baskin’s tale that may or may not include her killing her ex-husband, Hedren owned her own big cats. She had over 100 on her property.
In the ‘70s, Hedren and her ex-husband Noel Marshall were inspired to house big cats and then make the movie Roar. The plot almost mirrors their real-life family in the roles of mom, dad, and kids with Griffith and her stepbrother John Marshall co-starring. Marshall played a naturalist living with wild lions in Africa, and his family comes to visit. It turns into a horror movie of sorts when the wild lions attack and act like, you know, wild animals.
Since there were hundreds of wild cats and the actors portraying fear, it turned deadly very quickly.
“You’re fine with lions and tigers as long as you don’t show any fear,” John Marshall said, according to the New York Post in 2015. “The problem is that the plot required us to show fear. These animals who had learned to respect us were totally confused when we started acting terrified.”
Hedren broke her leg while filming, director of photography Jan de Bont had his scalp ripped off and required over 100 stitches, and Griffith suffered a back injury. Not to mention a lion mauled her face and she had to have reconstructive surgery. The movie wasn’t released in America until its rerelease in 2015.
Under these conditions and the fact that no one really had control over the animals, it was dubbed the most dangerous movie set, ever. No one died, but the promotional material for the rerelease said 70 people were injured. But Hedren insists it wasn’t that many.
“In the five years, I think there were seven people that were hurt, but not seriously,” Hedren told Variety in 2016. “When we were making the movie there were a few instances. I was hurt. Melanie [Griffith] was hurt. My then-husband [director Noel Marshall] was in the hospital so many times they were going to name a wing after him.”
The New York Post reported that Hedren said, “It was amazing no one was killed.” She also told Variety that she doesn’t “know how we survived it.” It was only supposed to last nine months to make but took five years. – Source
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