[Glamour Fights]

Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl Catfight (1954)

Sonia Sorrell (Anne Bonney, Pirate)l	Eva Gabor (Judith Duvall, the Slave Girl)
18 May 1921, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA	11 February 1919, Budapest, Hungary
33 years old at filming	35 years old at filming
Height unknown (close to Eva’s)	5' 2½" (1.59 m)
Measurements unknown	36-22-36 (upon arrival from Hungary in 1940)

The next edition in my series of movie or TV catfights. It is a blonde vs. blonde fight. In the movie we have a female pirate, Anne Bonney Sonia Sorrell, and a “slave girl”, Judith Duvall played by Eva Gabor, who square off in a catfight. Actually Judith appears more to be a lady than a slave girl but she pretends to be Captain Kidd’s slave. The clip above is from the movie. The good thing about this fight is that the director stayed with the fight all the way through without cutaways. The fight may also be considered to have a winner when one combatant pulls a knife on the other and is preparing to stab her when pulled off. I don’t like that ending so for the purposes of this poll imagine that the knife is lost or knocked out of the hands of the pirate and the fight continues to a catfighting finish. Would the pirate prevail who is presumably stronger or will the slave girl prevail who seems feistier and willing to fight until the bitter end? One interesting question - I wonder why no one ever took the knife away from  Anne?

Once again we imagine a real life fight between Eva Gabor and Sonia Sorrell. Which one would end up the winner if either:

Sonia Sorrell was also known as Sonia Sorrel. Her filmology lists two films: Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954) and Harold and Maude (1971) at IMDb  As Sonia Sorrel is has a long list of films listed at IMDb. In 1954 it lists Ihre große Prüfung as Sonia Sorrell which confirms the different names. Interestingly the filmology for Sonia Sorrel does not list Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl and the German film is not listed for Sonia Sorrell. Sonia was married to John Carradine (1945 - 6 May 1957) (divorced) 3 children. 

Most people should know who Eva Gabor was. She was the younger sister of Zsa Zsa Gabor by 2 years. Eva also played Lisa Douglas on the TV series Green Acres.

I am not sure how Eva and Sonia compared physically. In the film they appear to be about the same height. I think their weight was also close at the time of the filming. Sonia may have been a little bit heavier but I don’t think by a significant amount if she was heavier at all. As far as fighting abilities and fighting spirit I don’t know much about either. I know nothing about Sonia. Eva was Zsa Zsa’s sister and Zsa Zsa’s temper was well known. She got in trouble for slapping the face of a Beverly Hills police office. I can imagine Eva having the same Hungarian feistiness and temper as her sister but this is speculation on my part. I would not be surprised if Eva and Zsa Zsa traded slaps and hairpulling in a sisterly fight growing up.

[Vassago]

Sonia is slightly tougher then Eva and beats her up badly in a fierce catfight 

[Glamour Fights]

Thanks kimval, petelv, barbosa, and Vassago. Anyone else? Barbosa is waiting on pins and needles for byline's comments.

Things aren't looking good for Eva. Barbosa is the only one so far who thinks she will win. Eva is way ahead right now but is barbosa's backing the kiss of death? Or has he broken his losing side jinx? Anne is favored by all over Judith. Is there anyone out there who thinks Judith can win? Well quite a few voters do but anyone who can say why?

As far as what is next, barbosa. You shall just have to wait and see.    

In the meantime maybe I'll think about a wild catfight among Zsa Zsa, Magda, and Eva. Magda is roughly 3 years older than Zsa Zsa and 5 years older than Eva.

Zsa Zsa and Magda were both married to George Sanders.

[byline]

Barbosa always presents solid arguments for the way he votes. Of course sometimes his arguments are based on his own biases or on distorted facts. Not so much this time. If we take the private vs. the slave girl the facts seem to be on his side on the surface. We have Anne Bonney (aka Bonny) who was known as a blood thirsty pirate along with her co-female pirate, Mary Read. She is dressed in clothes for fighting wearing pants and solid boots. Then we have Judith Duvall, who appears to be an elegant, pampered lady. She is dressed in a heavy gown with rather flimsy shoes. When you know of all the corsets and other garments under than gown her clothing must weight a ton.

So it is a surprise when she becomes the aggressor and tackles Anne down after being insulted and pushed by Anne. And the fight shown is fairly even with Barbosa describing it quite well. The problem for Anne is that Judith is not the shrinking violet she thinks her to be. In other parts of the movie we see that Judith is quite capable physically even swimming all the way out to the ship. What I would also say from watching the fight is that Anne's heart really isn't into it. she rolls around with Judith and gives her some good slaps. I don't think I even saw Judith slap Anne. But it appears that she is fighting more for fun against an opponent she belittles and thinks has no chance against her. On the other hand Judith is very serious about the fight. She is defending her honor after being insulted and is also fighting for her man. She goes after Anne's hair every chance she gets. When Anne rolls her over she fights back and changes position. When Anne pulls her up, as Barbosa described, she spins her around and shoves her into the chair obviously thinking she will rip Anne's eyes out. Of course Anne uses the classic foot in the stomach to push Judith off her and onto her back - very realistic I will say that to the director. In the end I had to go with Judith because I think she will keep attacking and attacking until Anne wants no more of her. Why waste her efforts on such a worthless wench. Anne will no longer have her knife or her sword which is she more used to fighting with while Judith will still have her claws. A long, tough fight but Judith will have the intensity to prevail.

As for Eva vs Sonia - I think Barbosa has said it all. I've ready some quotes from Eva who displays someone who is sure of herself, maybe even cocky, and has a temper. Kimval may be correct in that Sonia is bigger but, if so, not by much. An angry Eva won't have much trouble with her.

Great fight, Glamour. Like Barbosa I can't wait to see what you have in store next. I like it when you find some rare fights that we haven't seen or have forgotten about. I also agree this was one fight that was filmed properly.

[Fandango]

I Have vote for Eva Gabor (Judith Duvall, the Slave Girl)