Living With Neil the Lion

Neil the lion with Tippi Hedren as she reads a newspaper in her home in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
IMAGE: MICHAEL ROUGIER / TIME & LIFE PICTURES

This is what happens when a lion becomes part of the household.
These pictures show Tippi Hedren — star of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds — with her husband, Noel Marshall, and her daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, and their lion, Neil. Melanie is Tippi’s daughter from her first marriage to Peter Griffith. At the time these pictures were taken, Melanie was 19.