Kiss Me, My Fool!

A blog dedicated to the first Vamp of the silent screen

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Is Theda Bara Alive or Dead?

From Screenland, June 1923.

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in 1937, a fire broke out in the fox vault at 20th century-fox storage facility, destroying more than 75% of their films made before 1930. 1917's cleopatra, was considered partially lost with only small parts remaining, but recently a man discovered even more footage of the movie staring theda bara

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Picture Show Magazine, March, 19, 1921.

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So interesting!

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newly-discovered fragment of Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917)

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newly-discovered fragment of Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917)

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Cleopatra (1917) - Newly Discovered Footage

Another excerpt from ‘Cleopatra’ (1917) has been found! After last year’s discovery of a small excerpt from Salome (1918) we now have another piece of film history.

The story goes that this piece of film was incuded in a lot of old film cuttings on ebay; once the byer had restored them, the call was put out on facebook for anyone who could recoginse the film.

I follow the thevintagecostumecollector on instagram who was able to identify Theda straightaway & is lucky enough to own a couple of Theda’s costume pieces himself!

It makes me so happy knowing there are gems still to be found over 100 years later & Theda’s legacy is a little less lost.

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Theda Bara (Theo) & her husband, Director Charles Brabin

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Autographed sketch of Theda Bara by Manuel Rosenberg, 1921 Cincinnati Post

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Madame Mystery (1926)                          

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theda bara in salomé (1918)

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THEDA BARA as CLEOPATRA (1917, silent)

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Theda Bara: 29/07/1885 - 07/04/1955

(Pictures from the movie SIN - 1915)

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Theda Bara "La `diablesa" (The she devil) 1918, de J. Gordon Edwards.

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The Two Orphans was a 1915 American silent romantic drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Theda Bara. This film was based on the 1872 French play Les deux orphelines, by Adolphe D'Ennery and Eugene Cormon which was translated into English by N. Hart Jackson. It was the play that was being performed at the time the Brooklyn Theater Fire broke out.[self-published source] The film was made by Fox Film Corporation and was partially shot on location in Québec, Canada. It is now considered to be lost.

In 1921 D. W. Griffith made a second adaptation of the play, Orphans of the Storm, starring Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish.

Plot: In Paris, the beautiful orphan Henriette is kidnapped by the Marquis de Presles, a libertine, leaving her blind and defenseless friend Louise wandering the streets alone. While Mother Frochard, a beggar and thief, forces Louise to beg for her food, Henriette is rescued by the Chevalier de Vaudrey, who loves her. The chevalier's mother, the Countess De Liniere, discovers that Louise is her long-lost daughter and resolves to find her. In the meantime, Mother Frochard's son, a hunchback named Pierre, falls in love with Louise, and when his brother Jacques cruelly beats the girl, Pierre kills him. Just then, the countess locates Louise, and after the girl regains her sight, she is joined with Pierre. The countess then gives her consent to the marriage of her son and Henriette.