Lillian Gish in The Lily and the Rose (1915, dir. Paul Powell) (via)
Louise Brooks and Fritz Rasp in Diary of a Lost Girl (1929, dir. G.W. Pabst)
From the lost film To the Stars (1906, dir. Georges Méliès) (via)
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Theda Bara in a publicity shot for A Fool There Was (1915, dir. Frank Powell) (via)
“I was held up as one who delighted in the lure of destruction and evil-doing…hardly a day passes that the postman does not bring me letters written along similar lines. Many of them attack me most unmercifully. Some intimate that no woman could portray [femme fatales] without having had the actual experience.
Here is a letter I received during the past few months:
You are a menace to the human race. Man is a mere toy in your hands or those of women like you. Your type inevitably leads to ruin and destruction. Those glittering eyes are like those of the serpent, except they are more dangerous.
Such letters hurt. It is impossible to accustom myself to them. Why do people hate me so? I try to show the world how attractive sin can be, how very beautiful, so that one must be always on the lookout and know evil even in disguise. I am a moral teacher then. But what is my reward? I am detested.
People seem to forget that I am only an actress; that an actress should never show her real self to an audience, else she ceases to be an actress.”
-Bara, quoted in The Pittsburgh Press (April 1916)
I love you, Theda.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx92rr3a461qzdvhio1_r2_1280.jpg)
Theda Bara in a publicity shot for A Fool There Was (1915, dir. Frank Powell) (via)
“I was held up as one who delighted in the lure of destruction and evil-doing…hardly a day passes that the postman does not bring me letters written along similar lines. Many of them attack me most unmercifully. Some intimate that no woman could portray [femme fatales] without having had the actual experience.
Here is a letter I received during the past few months:
You are a menace to the human race. Man is a mere toy in your hands or those of women like you. Your type inevitably leads to ruin and destruction. Those glittering eyes are like those of the serpent, except they are more dangerous.
Such letters hurt. It is impossible to accustom myself to them. Why do people hate me so? I try to show the world how attractive sin can be, how very beautiful, so that one must be always on the lookout and know evil even in disguise. I am a moral teacher then. But what is my reward? I am detested.
People seem to forget that I am only an actress; that an actress should never show her real self to an audience, else she ceases to be an actress.”
-Bara, quoted in The Pittsburgh Press (April 1916)
I love you, Theda.
Bluebeard (1901, dir. Georges Méliès)
“King Bluebeard turned all the keys of the castle over to his wife, saying, ‘You may go anywhere in the castle, unlock everything, and look at anything you want to, except for one door, to which this little golden key belongs. If you value your life, you are not allowed to open it!’
‘Oh no!’ she said, adding that she surely would not open that door. But after the king had been away for a while, she could find no rest for constantly thinking about what there might be in the forbidden chamber. On the morning of the fourth day, she could no longer resist the temptation, and taking the key she secretly crept to the room, stuck the key into the lock, and opened the door.”
-Charles Perrault, Bluebeard
Y con Alla Nazimova les dejo, hasta el lunes.
Pff, women.
Buster Keaton in The Cook (1918)
I love silent films. I love the language of a single image. I love how some of the films still influence artists today. :)
If I’d be a film maker I’d cut dialogue and make my very own little silent film. (and annoy the hell out of the critics. lol)
I have this dream of making a silent movie too, lol!
(Source: tea-with-theo)
Rudolph Valentino
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