The stars (1962)

Record Details:

Title:
The stars
Date:
1962
Publisher:
New York : Bonanza Books
Volume:
The stars
Leaf #:
00037
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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* \ .-v * THEDA BARA 77ie c?arA; /ac?y o/ </ie publicity stills. A vamp there was This was the legend they concocted for Theda Bara: She was born in the Sahara, love child of a French artist and his Arab paramour. Her name was an anagram for "Arab Death." She had a seer's power, habitually wore indigo to accentuate the deathly pallor of her skin, surrounded herself with the symbols of death — mummy cases, ravens, skulls. To love her was to die or, at the very least, to be unmanned. Theodosia Goodman, the "circumspect and demure" daughter of a Cincinnati tailor did her best to live the legend and, for a time, she appalled the genteel, outraged the moral, amused the cynical and, in general, packed 'em in. It was her refreshing exoticism, in the midst of so many golden-haired virgins, that attracted. It was her publicity that ruined her. The wish for death and the will to love may indeed spring from the same libidinal source, but it is unwise to insist on the point; it makes people very nervous indeed. Audiences began to titter uncomfortably, then to laugh uproariously and with a great sense of relief. Miss Bara's career was over. What she established, however, the lure of the exotic, the absolutely un-American woman, had a peculiar immortality. A Fool There Was, the film that launched Theda Bara in 1914. 31