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who was the most attractive killer??


Trish Van Devere in Make Me a Perfect Murder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FB0nc4JENw

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I can’t remember if I saw this particular episode or not. But if you’re a fan of Ms Van Devere’s, you might check out a somewhat obscure movie by the title of “The Savage Is Loose”, if you haven’t already done so. That was some controversial sh!t for the early 70’s! And she looks great in it.

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thanks

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I've always found Dabney Coleman attractive. Even though when he was in Murder of a Rock Star he was no longer in his prime, he would get my vote

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Trish had a great body, though it was mostly covered by the 70s fashion.

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The ladies: Vera Miles, Susan Clark, Trish Van Devere. Janet Leigh and Anne Baxter were lovely, but a bit past their young beauty.

The men: Robert Conrad(as a fitness mogul), George Hamilton(black hair in the 70s', gray hair in the 90s'), Robert Culp, Dabney Coleman.

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A babe, and definitely one of the more memorable Columbo villains too.

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Ha! We are on the SAME page! I was thinking of her, but I couldn't remember her name. Then you just mentioned her on the Psycho thread so I came here to answer.

Spooky! lol

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Spooky, indeed -- its where my mind wandered!

I find Psycho and Columbo to be "linked":

Vera Miles and Janet Leigh played killers.

Arbogast's(Martin Balsam's) questioning of Norman Bates(Anthony Perkins) is very much a dry run for how Columbo would question suspects. I always hoped that Columbo would cast Perkins as a "Columbo killer," but it never happened.

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Nobody comes to mind, but the hottest accomplice was definitely Gretchen Corbett in An Exercise in Fatality, in Robert Conrad's house wearing the bikini! Wow oh ** W O W !! **

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I love Gretchen on the Rockford Files.

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lee grant look great in ransom for dead man

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She's not all that. There have been lots of hotties on Columbo, but as far as actual killers:
Lee Grant in Ransom for the Dead Man (1971) who is still alive at 95 (hot at 45 though)
Gena Rowlands in Playback (1975) also was 45, now 90.
Susan Clark in Lady in Waiting (1971) was 28, now 77.
Gretchen Corbett in Exercise in Fatality (1974) was 27, now 73.
https://columbophile.com/2017/04/02/columbos-loveliest-ladies/#:~:text=Like%20Kay%20Freestone%2C%20Lee%20Grant's,Columbo%20killer%20of%20them%20all.

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Past her prime as well, but was still gorgeous.
Faye Dunaway.

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I remember finding her very attractive in the movie One is a Lonely Number.

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