Theda Bara

[Paul Mackin]

You forgot to say what her anagram was: Arab Death.

					P.

Lycidas at worldnet.att.net wrote:
> 
> Pollyanna Philosophy gave way to Bara Theda. With the
> growing sophistication of the screen the "vamp" was
> introduced. Valeska Suratt brought the fascination of sinful
> love to the movies and Theda Bara helped establish sex as a
> dominant motif. Theda had tremendous success, her staring,
> sensual face, with exotic, heavy-lidded eyes, was
> photographed with skull and crossbones, she was described
> as  "fascinating and unfathomable, whose passion is touched
> with death," her face,  "the wickedest face in the world,
> dark-brooding, beautiful and heartless." Voluptuously
> swathed in black silks and satins, her white shoulders and
> arms left bare ("fascination in the icy passion), the dark
> cloud of hair encircling her white face "spelled disaster,
> at the same time holding a promise of pleasure."