Today is World Lion Day so let's gaze at those utterly majestic felines posing with actors and actresses because it's an excuse to honor them. A beauty break gallery after the jump featuring Kirsten Dunst, Joanna Lumley, Buster Crabbe, Gregory Peck, Cara Delevigne and more...
Tippi Hedren with her pet lion "Neil" in the 1970s
Julianne posing with cubs for Bulgari
Greta Garbo doesn't look too happy to be posing with MGM's lion
Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren with a young'un
Melanie Griffith as a teenager with mom's pet lion "Neil"
Tippi & Neil reading the morning paper
Cara Delevigne with cub
Gloria Swanson pretending to be dead on the set of a DeMille film with a live lion as co-star
Marc Singer as Beastmaster (1982) and Tanya Roberts as Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (1984). Anyone remember these movies?
The MGM Logo through the years.
and let's end with Kirsten Dunst getting friendly with a lion (remember that Bulgari ad?) with a bunch of oohing on the soundtrack (although you can see from this behind the scenes footage that Kiki was never actually with the lion but posed with a fake one before he arrived)