This family lived with a real lion back in 1971

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Editor's note: This series of intimate photographs from the 1970s of Neil the lion carries a chilling backstory that should remind us all that, no matter how much we might love them or feel close to them, we will never truly understand the mind of a wild animal. After a trip to Africa, actress Tippi Hedren, her husband Noel Marshall, and their actress daughter Melanie Griffith, wanted to make a movie about lions. At the advice of Ron Oxley, an animal trainer who said that "to get to know about lions, you've got to live with them for a while," they had Neil the lion live with them. Their life was documented by LIFE photographer Michael Rougier.

Melanie jumping into a swimming pool while Neil grabs her leg.


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