Word: vamp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, the silent screen's original vamp, heavy-lidded Cinemactress Theda (A Fool There Was) Bara, 64, was whisked off to a hospital for a rush appendectomy...
...heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo (Mad Love) Negri, 56, suddenly popped out of retirement in Hollywood to disclose all sorts of irons in the fire. Pola, who used to outhawk her own pressagents with whoppers about her past (e.g., she once claimed that she had been divorced from a Pope of Rome), now made big talk about her future. Items: a movie comeback this fall as a fallen woman in a German production, an autobiography in the works which "will cover my life and loves from Chaplin to Valentino-and those who came before...
...imagination. Though the parody of "Picnic" is rather distasteful, De Wolfe takes a delightful poke at "My Cousin Rachel." Miss Gingold, however, as the dancer, "La Pistachio," provides the most entertaining moments of the revue. Garbed in an uproarious butterfly costume, the lusty old harridan is hilarious as the vamp of Paris...
...Farrand, a former Brattle leading lady, is cast as the manufacturer's eager daughter. Anxious to exchange propriety for action, Miss Ferrand is a sophisticated vamp with a low and hungry laugh. She hobbles about the stage in a tight, flapper costume, snapping up each scene and wiggling off stage with...
...Bell has usually been depicted as a flicker of light. (In the earlier movie version, she was an automobile headlight bulb decorated with tinsel, and manipulated with a fluttery movement on the end of a fishing pole.) Through the magic of the animated cartoon, she is a bosomy little vamp, not much bigger than a dot of light, who flits about enchantingly with a silvery tinkle of bells in a sprinkle of golden pixie dust...