[1] Giorgio La Ferlita, Italian diplomat in Paris, falls in love during a reception with the Russian countess Natka, who is told to have led to death her former lover.

A short-circuit sets the hotel on fire and her husband, mad with jealousy, locks them in the room.

According to Eugenia Paulicelli, Pina Menichelli in Tigre Reale "is the sex symbol of Italian divas (...) and epitomizes what Fuchs has identified as the notion of appearing naked in full dress.

"[2] Salvador Dali was touched by Menichelli's performance and said "In those days characterized by such a violent eroticism, palms and magnolias were bitten off and devoured by these women.

"[3] Catherine Ramsey-Portolano considers that Tigre Reale enforces "the role of the female character as representative of power by avoiding the association of the diva with notions of wrongdoing, accomplished through the sublimation of her responsibility and guilt into illness and suffering.