The most beautiful star of the greatest horror masterpiece of Italian film, _La maschera del demonio . Even well past 60, Barbara Steele is still beautiful and her fans still love her.
She was the original female lead to Elvis Presley in Flaming Star . She walked off the picture after an argument with director Don Siegel.
She was reportedly the last person to be signed as a contract player by the J. Arthur Rank Organization.
She has one child, a son named Jonathan Jackson Poe who was born on August 11, 1970 in Los Angeles with her ex-husband, James Poe.
She was slightly injured by Vincent Price while filming her last scene from Pit and the Pendulum when he quite aggressively grabbed her by her throat - she shrugged it off because the scene came off so real.
The role of Alice LeBlanc in They Shoot Horses, Dont They? was written by James Poe --her husband--specifically for her, but it turned out she was not able to do it and it was given to Susannah York instead.
Has appeared in Curse of the Crimson Altar with three other cinema horror masters: Boris Karloff , Michael Gough and Christopher Lee.
Best remembered by the public for her role as the evil yet sexy witch Princess Asa Vajda in Mario Bava s La maschera del demonio .
Was friends with Jane Wald , when she was in the United States during the 1960s.
[on her career in the documentary "A-Z of Horror" (1997) ] I,usually played these roles where I represented the dark side. I was,always a predatory bitch goddess in all of these movies, and with all,kinds of unspeakable elements. Then what is life without a dark side?,The driving force of drama is the dark side. These women that I played,usually suffered for it, and I guess men like that.
