Aileen Pringle as the character Zara, wearing an Erté gown for the 1925 silent Tod Browning occult(-ish) thriller THE MYSTIC. In the film, Zara gets her way by convincing her victims she has occult powers. Of course, director Browning went on to direct DRACULA and FREAKS in the early 1930s. (Silent and Pre-Code Horror)












