Yes, That's Just the Pet Lion in the Swimming Pool

This is what happens when a lion becomes part of the household.

These pictures show Tippi Hedren - star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds - with her huband Noel Marshall, and her daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, and their lion, Neil. Melanie is Tippi's daughter from her first marriage to Peter Griffith. At the time these pictures were taken, Melanie was 19.

While filming in Africa in 1969, Hedren and her husband saw an abandoned house which had been taken over and inhabited by lions. On their return to America, they determined to make a film about - and with - lions, based on what they had witnessed, and to raise awareness of the endangered status of lions Read more...

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