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Theda Bara

Author : Ronald Genini
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491612
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Theda Bara written by Ronald Genini and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being a mediocre actress with less than classic beauty, Theda Bara was one of Hollywood's leading performers in the early years of cinema. Her success was mostly due to Fox Studio's publicity: they made her a screen vamp and used her to titillate the public. And Theda Bara, ambitious and nearing 30 when she made her first film, enthusiastically played the role. In real life, Theodosia Goodman bore little resemblance to the vampish Theda Bara character. But the studio-created persona, with the invented name, evil personality and fictional history, was a major star. Though her films were often trite, poorly acted, extravagant and crude, the public packed movie houses. But her film career ended once the public tired of the persona. Through contemporary newspaper accounts, film reviews, interviews and other sources, this is a comprehensive account of the life and times of one of Hollywood's first female stars.

Vamp

Author : Eve Golden
Publisher : Vestal Press
ISBN 13 : 1461730775
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Vamp written by Eve Golden and published by Vestal Press. This book was released on 1998-05-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theda Bars's remarkable life as told by Eve Golden's heartfelt account is short of discovering a means of traveling through time and as close as we are ever likely to get to meeting the screen's great Vamp!

Theda Bara, My Mentor

Author : Joan Craig
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476662835
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Theda Bara, My Mentor written by Joan Craig and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As movie patrons sat in darkened theaters in January 1914, they were mesmerized by an alluring temptress with long sable hair and kohl-rimmed eyes. Theda Bara--"the vamp," as she would come to be known--would soon be one of the highest paid film stars of the 1910s, earning an unheard of $4,000 per week, before retiring from the screen in 1926. In 1946, at age five, the author met Bara--then 61--at her Beverly Hills home and the actress became her mentor. This memoir is the story of their friendship.

Theda Bara

Author : Roy Liebman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476687250
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Theda Bara written by Roy Liebman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a major star in the 1910s, Theda Bara--known as "The Vamp"--was largely neglected until the 1990s, when her fame began to resurface. Since then, there have been biographies, documentaries and other works that have brought the silent film actress back into the spotlight, including a painstaking stills reconstruction of her lost epic Cleopatra. This is a complete examination of Bara's more than 40 films, as well as her theater and radio appearances, down to the smallest detail. With the vast majority of Bara's films considered lost, it is a particularly valuable resource for fans and scholars, and includes information about each film's genesis, director, plot, censorship problems, and critical and public reactions. Also included is a biographical overview, with many illuminating anecdotes.

Scandals of Classic Hollywood

Author : Anne Helen Petersen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101635479
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Scandals of Classic Hollywood written by Anne Helen Petersen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure to top your list for movie gifts and appeal to fans of classic cinema and hollywood history alike. Believe it or not, America’s fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Cardi B, Kanye's tweets, and the #metoo allegations that have gripped Hollywood. And the stars of yesteryear? They weren’t always the saints that we make them out to be. BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen, author of Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, is here to set the record straight. Pulling little-known gems from the archives of film history, Petersen reveals eyebrow-raising information, including: • The smear campaign against the original It Girl, Clara Bow, started by her best friend • The heartbreaking story of Montgomery Clift’s rapid rise to fame, the car accident that destroyed his face, and the “long suicide” that followed • Fatty Arbuckle's descent from Hollywood royalty, fueled by allegations of a boozy orgy turned violent assault • Why Mae West was arrested and jailed for "indecency charges" • And much more Part biography, part cultural history, these stories cover the stuff that films are made of: love, sex, drugs, illegitimate children, illicit affairs, and botched cover-ups. But it's not all just tawdry gossip in the pages of this book. The stories are all contextualized within the boundaries of film, cultural, political, and gender history, making for a read that will inform as it entertains. Based on Petersen's beloved column on the Hairpin, but featuring 100% new content, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart.

Theda Bara Paper Dolls

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942490388
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Theda Bara Paper Dolls written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theda Bara was the vamp of the silent movies and such a popular star that she became an early celebrity fashion icon. Her dark and dramatic cinematic image was admired and widely copied by fans. This paper doll tribute features two dolls and 15 authentic vintage fashions that include costumes from Cleopatra, her most famous role. Beautifully illustrated by Brenda Sneathen Mattox, this paper doll tribute includes fashion notes and essay by Randy Bryan Bigham.

In Theda Bara's Tent

Author : Diana Altman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615343273
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book In Theda Bara's Tent written by Diana Altman and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Theda Bara's Tent follows the adventures of a spirited orphan who makes his way into the burgeoning movie business in the days when the screen was silent and the moguls were just small-time theater owners. Harry Sirkus is so brave and lovable everyone wants to help him including a struggling theater owner named Louis B. Mayer who, at age 22, living in Haverhill, Massachusetts, is years away from being studio head at MGM. Harry runs away from Haverhill at age 13 and must make his way in the world alone. After many adventures and heartbreaking struggles he goes to New York to work for the avaricious William Fox, founder of Fox News, a newsreel company. In his search for love and prosperity, Harry encounters screen stars, Tin Pan Alley song pluggers, bootleggers, dare-devil cameramen, movie moguls, and a young gossip columnist who steals his heart. Rich in historical context, with a cast of characters real and imagined, this page-turner follows Harry Sirkus as he makes a mark in the flourishing film industry and goes on to become a famous news broadcaster. Harry's personality is so captivating and vivid readers will be hard-pressed to remember that the author made him up. Written by Diana Altman who grew up in the movie business, this is fictionalized history at its best.

Heritage Auctions Music and Entertainment Auction Catalog #696

Author : Jim Steele
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781599672885
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Heritage Auctions Music and Entertainment Auction Catalog #696 written by Jim Steele and published by Heritage Capital Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Man Who Made the Movies

Author : Vanda Krefft
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062680676
Total Pages : 1501 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Made the Movies written by Vanda Krefft and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 1501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting story of ambition, greed, and genius unfolding at the dawn of modern America. This landmark biography brings into focus a fascinating brilliant entrepreneur—like Steve Jobs or Walt Disney, a true American visionary—who risked everything to realize his bold dream of a Hollywood empire. Although a major Hollywood studio still bears William Fox’s name, the man himself has mostly been forgotten by history, even written off as a failure. Now, in this fascinating biography, Vanda Krefft corrects the record, explaining why Fox’s legacy is central to the history of Hollywood. At the heart of William Fox’s life was the myth of the American Dream. His story intertwines the fate of the nineteenth-century immigrants who flooded into New York, the city’s vibrant and ruthless gilded age history, and the birth of America’s movie industry amid the dawn of the modern era. Drawing on a decade of original research, The Man Who Made the Movies offers a rich, compelling look at a complex man emblematic of his time, one of the most fascinating and formative eras in American history. Growing up in Lower East Side tenements, the eldest son of impoverished Hungarian immigrants, Fox began selling candy on the street. That entrepreneurial ambition eventually grew one small Brooklyn theater into a $300 million empire of deluxe studios and theaters that rivaled those of Adolph Zukor, Marcus Loew, and the Warner brothers, and launched stars such as Theda Bara. Amid the euphoric roaring twenties, the early movie moguls waged a fierce battle for control of their industry. A fearless risk-taker, Fox won and was hailed as a genius—until a confluence of circumstances, culminating with the 1929 stock market crash, led to his ruin.

The Director's Cut

Author : Christopher DiGrazia
Publisher : 1921 PVG Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0982770944
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book The Director's Cut written by Christopher DiGrazia and published by 1921 PVG Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I wanted a job. I got a murder."When makeup artist Toby Swanson joined the Fox Film Corporation in 1914, he hoped to sneak a kiss from the studio's newest star, the seductive vamp Theda Bara. But when a scene goes horribly wrong, Bara's film is canceled and her dreams of stardom crushed. Unless she can prove what looked like an accident was really murder.So together, Theda and Toby dive into showbiz New York, from dancing with a young Rudolph Valentino to sharing the vaudeville stage with Sophie Tucker and learning lockpicking secrets from Harry Houdini, all leading to a long-forgotten church crypt holding a desperate secret.It's New York at the dawn of the twentieth century, a time of big bridges, big skyscrapers and big money. And it's a time when movies - the biggest new business of them all - joins hands with the oldest.The Director's Cut is the first of the Theda Bara Mysteries.

The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe

Author : Andrew O'Hagan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0151013721
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe written by Andrew O'Hagan and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2010 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given as a Christmas present to Marilyn Monroe, Maf the dog provides keen insight into the world of the Hollywood starlet during the last two years of her life.

Femme Fatale

Author : James Ursini
Publisher : Limelight Editions
ISBN 13 : 0879107243
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Femme Fatale written by James Ursini and published by Limelight Editions. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). From the femme fatale of the early cinema to her post-feminist rebirth, this lavishly illustrated book and comprehensive guide traces the history of these dangerously alluring, manipulative, and desperate lethal ladies. Femme Fatale surveys the history of the femme fatale in world cinema, with more than 300 photographs testifying to the power of these mysterious women. The book begins with the silent period and its vamps, like Theda Bara, Pola Negri, Clara Bow, and Bebe Daniels, then moves on to the Pre-Code sound period of American films, which, showing liberated attitudes toward sex and women, featured actresses like Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, and Greta Garbo. The story continues with the noir 1940s, when the femme fatale became truly lethal including actresses like Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and Barbara Stanwyck. In the repressive 1950s, the international femme fatale took the fore Brigitte Bardot, Maria Felix, Elizabeth Taylor, Anita Ekberg, etc. Finally, the authors turn to the revolutionary post-feminist modern period, with an array of lethal ladies from all over the world, like Pam Grier, Salma Hayek, Gong Li, Angelina Jolie, and Sharon Stone.

The Jewish Decadence

Author : Jonathan Freedman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022658108X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Jewish Decadence written by Jonathan Freedman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freedman's final book is a tour de force that examines the history of Jewish involvement in the decadent art movement. While decadent art's most notorious practitioner was Oscar Wilde, as a movement it spread through western Europe and even included a few adherents in Russia. Jewish writers and artists such as Catulle Mèndes, Gustav Kahn, and Simeon Solomon would portray non-stereotyped characters and produce highly influential works. After decadent art's peak, Walter Benjamin, Marcel Proust, and Sigmund Freud would take up the idiom of decadence and carry it with them during the cultural transition to modernism. Freedman expertly and elegantly takes readers through this transition and beyond, showing the lineage of Jewish decadence all the way through to the end of the twentieth century"--

Missing Reels

Author : Farran Smith Nehme
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 146831078X
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Missing Reels written by Farran Smith Nehme and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she’s never going back, minimum wage job (vintage store salesgirl) and shabby apartment (Avenue C walkup) be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at fading movie houses—and most of the time that’s left trying to look like Jean Harlow? One day, Ceinwen discovers that her downstairs neighbor may have—just possibly—starred in a forgotten silent film that hasn’t been seen for ages. So naturally, it’s time for a quest. She will track down the film, she will impress her neighbor, and she will become a part of movie history: the archivist as ingénue. As she embarks on her grand mission, Ceinwen meets a somewhat bumbling, very charming, 100% English math professor named Matthew, who is as rational as she is dreamy. Together, they will or will not discover the missing reels, will or will not fall in love, and will or will not encounter the obsessives that make up the New York silent film nut underworld. A novel as winning and energetic as the grand Hollywood films that inspired it, Missing Reels is an irresistible, alchemical mix of Nora Ephron and David Nicholls that will charm and delight.

Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi

Author : Bob Johnston
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822218371
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi written by Bob Johnston and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Back in the days before Madonna, Marilyn and even Jean Harlow, there was Theda Bara! She was the Vamp. In the year 1917, if a newly ordained rabbi named Isaac Birnbaum were to be spotted by a member of his congregation watching this crea

Dark Lady of the Silents; My Life in Early Hollywood

Author : Miriam Cooper
Publisher : Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Dark Lady of the Silents; My Life in Early Hollywood written by Miriam Cooper and published by Bobbs-Merrill Company. This book was released on 1973 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cinema of Obsession

Author : Dominique Mainon
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879103477
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Cinema of Obsession written by Dominique Mainon and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema of Obsession traces the history of obsessive love and erotic fixation. Seminal works of obsession, The Blue Angel, Peter Ibbetson, and Phantom of the Opera are seen as setting the groundwork for films that follow. The book defines and surveys examples of the explosive nature of amour fou, issues of male control (no matter how tenuous), and the fugitive couple - love on the run - in such films as Romeo and Juliet, Last Tango in Paris, Vertigo, Basic Instinct, and Wild at Heart. Male masochism is explored through film noirs, including Criss Cross, The Killers, Gilda, and The Postman Always Rings Twice. The book shifts gears in its finale and concentrates on the female gaze, films of female obsession: Jane Eyre, The Piano, The Lover, Fatal Attraction, and Vanilla Sky.