I’ve never seen such an extraordinary actor in all my life. She ruled early Hollywood like a Cleopatra. Full of passion, lust and grit. They sure don’t make em like Theda Bara anymore.
Aren’t all her movies lost?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 23, 2024 9:58 PM |
I respect the work she did but she was ugly. I can’t believe women like her and Mary Pickford were considered beautiful. Or Jean Harlow being sexy. I guess having a moon face was an attractive trait back then.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 23, 2024 10:00 PM |
She needs to work on her smize.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 23, 2024 10:01 PM |
She was positively....operatic!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 23, 2024 10:04 PM |
Almost all of her 40 films have been lost except for 6 and some fragments of others.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 23, 2024 10:05 PM |
I have the face of a vampire and the heart of a feminist.
- Theda Bara
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 23, 2024 10:07 PM |
She was a scamp, a camp, and a bit of a tramp
She was a V A M P, Vamp!
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 23, 2024 10:11 PM |
Her name was an anagram of death Arab
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 23, 2024 10:16 PM |
One of Richard Avedon’s photos of Marilyn Monroe as Theda.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 23, 2024 10:21 PM |
A short clip from Cleopatra, rediscovered last year:
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 23, 2024 10:25 PM |
That fire at 20th Century Fox was so tragic :(
Nitrate can't wait!
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 23, 2024 10:35 PM |
Judging by r16’s clip, I could see Helena Bonham Carter playing her in a biopic.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 23, 2024 10:35 PM |
Jewish, ya' know.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 23, 2024 11:07 PM |
Her first name was Theodosia. Theda for short but her last name was Goodman, and she hailed from Ohio. It's like Rudy's ex Natacha Rambova whose name was Winifred Shaughnessy from Utah. These exotic ladies from lands afar, lol. Holly wood: The land of make believe.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 23, 2024 11:08 PM |
Back then in Hollywood you get away with a lot of shit. Louella Parsons didn't even exist yet.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 23, 2024 11:10 PM |
Now there's a biopic idea for Beanie Feldstein!
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 23, 2024 11:14 PM |
The servants on Downton Abbey liked her.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 23, 2024 11:15 PM |
Wasn't she a SLUT like Louise Brooks and Joan Crawford?
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 23, 2024 11:19 PM |
She was a Scientologist. Her name says it all.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 23, 2024 11:20 PM |
The 20s had weird beauty standards
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 23, 2024 11:27 PM |
Not really, it's just the makeup that was needed for orthochromatic film. When panchromatic came in, everything became a lot more natural looking
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 23, 2024 11:34 PM |
Theda is a tad too au courant for DL.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 23, 2024 11:36 PM |
She looks like that Roan Chapel thing.
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 23, 2024 11:37 PM |
Nice scallops!
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 24, 2024 12:21 AM |
Theda Bara was a star of the 1910s, not the 1920s. By 1920 she was essentially old news, and flappers were all the rage.
So, the heavy makeup she wore so brazenly, the dark lips and mascara, not to mention all that bared white skin, was especially scandalous in those post-Edwardian years.
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 24, 2024 2:29 AM |
Not one of Theda Bara's films survives.
She was popular in the early silent period, and I doubt anyone currently alive has ever seen one of her films.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 24, 2024 9:32 AM |