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That profile is familiar too. For Alex is the latest in a long Hollywood line of women whose sexuality makes them both super- and subhuman. Vampires. Or, in Hollywood's word, vamps. Since 1915, when Theda Bara starred in A Fool There Was (based on Rudyard Kipling's poem The Vampire), the American movie screen has been pocked with predatory femmes fatales. What made them evil? Usually, that they liked sex as much as men did, if they were decadent Europeans played by the likes of Garbo and Dietrich. Or, if they were homegrown, that sexual frustration twisted them into...
Each of them was the Marilyn Monroe of her day, so Photographer Richard Avedon was assigned to shoot the real Marilyn posing as Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Lillian Russell for a 1958 spread in LIFE. Later, Avedon mislaid the negatives. Then, last December, as he was unpacking books in the library of his new home at Montauk, N.Y., out plopped the photos. He was not so fond of the Dietrich on second viewing, but the four others still charmed him, and he is issuing them as posters at $100 a set ($200 signed). The pictures...
...stand alone. It brims with fresh material: accounts by veterans of the silent era, accompanied by some 300 stills, many of them previously unpublished, from the collection of Archivist John Kobal. The photographs, carefully selected and strikingly reproduced, add more than decoration to the text. Stills of Theda Bara as a Madonna in The Forbidden Path (1918) and Corinne Griffith surrounded by a field of flowers in Outcast (1928) prove that the silents offered impressionistic masterpieces that have remained unequaled. A candid shot of Jackie Coogan, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks clowning on the set of The Kid helps flesh...
Michael Chellel, who played the flasher in the NBC comedy special Just for Laughs, has a new act in Hollywood. He has published a map showing the graves of 140 celebrities, including Theda Bara, Humphrey Bogart, Walt Disney, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, who are all buried in Forest Lawn -the cemetery satirized by Evelyn Waugh in The Loved One. Chellel sells about 40 maps a day on weekends (price: $5 each). For $25 more he will arrange to have flowers delivered to cemeteries for fans of deceased stars. Business is so good that Chellel is now giving...
...Jerome Waldie attempted wry wit. Texas Democrat Bar bara Jordan loomed and boomed like some elemental force, her cultivated accent and erudition surprising each time she spoke...