Word: bara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoilis at 8.20-"Dracula". Casey at the Bat, or the vampire that wasn't Theda Bara...
...story deals principally with the love of two of the foursome (Janet Gaynor and Charles Morton) and a rather elaborate exposition of backstage life?perennially acceptable theme. The discordant note in the quartet comes with the entrance of a strident villainess (Mary Duncan), done in the grandiose manner of Bara-esque sirens. In the early moments of the piece, when the child-lives of the four devils are revealed, two cinemasters, two cinemisses take the parts of the four devils and are notable for their strong resemblance to their adult colleagues. A plethora of film-footage retards the vehicle...
...name is Olga Baklanova; her address is c/o Paramount-Famous-Players-Lasky Corp., Hollywood, Calif. Compared with her, Theda Bara and the oldtime cinema-bad-women were fudge-makers. She was born in Russia and first achieved fame in the Moscow Art Theatre. Morris Guest, shrewd, brought her to the U. S. She played the nun in the road show of The Miracle. Then the movies got her. In The Street of Sin, The Man Who Laughs and her present triumph, Forgotten Faces, she demonstrates that she is, far and away, the most voluptuous cinemactress...
...Promoter Crandall is wall-eyed and wears glasses. Once able to see, Promoter Crandall lost no time in carving a career for himself. He worked in a store, became a reporter for the Tri-State News Bureau, sold cinemas to exhibitors, became the manager of several cinema stars (Theda Bara, Clara Kimball Young, Irene Castle, Lew Cody...
...sing her praises, because some of her charm and personality manages to transcend the tawdry banality of the Revue in which she appears, the ornate ensembles in which she is dressed, and the characterless puppets who support her. On the screen she had as distinct an individuality as Theda Bara ever had, but on the Metropolitan stage she was unable to glitter as in "Fascination" or "Peacock Alley". The romance of the Merry Widow waltz left the "Publix" patrons cold, whereas less black velvet and fluffy chiffon and more red hot syncopation a la her Ziegfield "Follies" days would have...