Topic: THEDA BARA (Read 6648 times)

singdaw · « **Reply #30 on:** January 30, 2024, 06:18:51 AM »

PAGE TWO!!

Laura · « **Reply #31 on:** January 30, 2024, 06:35:44 AM »

Good morning.

vixmom · « **Reply #32 on:** January 30, 2024, 06:38:07 AM »

Oh I got distracted

vixmom · « **Reply #33 on:** January 30, 2024, 06:38:13 AM »

Wordle then

vixmom · « **Reply #34 on:** January 30, 2024, 06:41:41 AM »

Wordle 955 4/6

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elmore3003 · « **Reply #35 on:** January 30, 2024, 06:55:19 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on January 30, 2024, 05:11:16 AM

What would you call a cluster of vamps?

A vampile.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 30, 2024, 06:55:45 AM »

Printing done. Time to make a bed.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #37 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:22:41 AM »

Dancing at the moving picture ball
Some scenario
Great big stars paraded 'round the hall
They were merry, Oh

Handsome Wallace Reid
Stepped out full of speed
And Theda Bara, Was a terror
She "vamped the little lady"
So did Alice Brady;

Douglas Fairbanks shimmied on one hand
Like an acrobat
Mary Pickford did a toe dance grand and

Charlie Chaplin with his feet
Stepped all over poor Blanche Sweet
Dancing at that moving picture ball

Rodzinski · « **Reply #38 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:24:16 AM »

That song, which I learned from George Segal’s LP “A Touch of Ragtime,” was my intro to Theda Bara.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #39 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:27:35 AM »

Ev'ry girl
A handsome looker
Had a dance
With Mister Zukor

Mister Thomas Ince
Stepped around just like a prince

William Fox
And Jessie Lasky
Both joined in the fun

John G. · « **Reply #40 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:28:44 AM »

Quote from: vixmom on January 30, 2024, 06:05:18 AM

Quote from: singdaw on January 30, 2024, 05:11:16 AM
What would you call a cluster of vamps?

A vamp pile?

. A vamp pyre?

John G. · « **Reply #41 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:29:51 AM »

Good morning, all.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #42 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:30:36 AM »

Douglas Fairbanks shimmied on one hand
Like an acrobat
Mary Pickford did a toe dance grand and

Sennett’s Bathing Girls were there
Each one was a little bare

Dancing at the Moving Picture Ball

John G. · « **Reply #43 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:31:18 AM »

I remember a musical call Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi. Jeff Hochshartner was one of the writers. It had promise but just disappeared.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #44 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:31:30 AM »

Just to get in all the name-checked stars in that old slice of Hollywood life.

John G. · « **Reply #45 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:31:51 AM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on January 30, 2024, 07:30:36 AM

Douglas Fairbanks shimmied on one hand
Like an acrobat
Mary Pickford did a toe dance grand and

Sennett’s Bathing Girls were there
Each one was a little bare

Dancing at the Moving Picture Ball

I love Bobby Short’s version of this.

John G. · « **Reply #46 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:32:18 AM »

And I am a Roland Young fan.

John G. · « **Reply #47 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:34:10 AM »

I once met Lillian Gish during a press conference at a retro movie theater that was honoring her with a D.W. Griffith Award. This was Kentucky, after all, and he hadn’t been cancelled back then.

John G. · « **Reply #48 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:34:37 AM »

They screened Broken Blossoms.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #49 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:39:21 AM »

Darling of the Day.

That is the title of volume two of my memoirs.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #50 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:39:45 AM »

I'm like Ginger Rogers, the first 400 pages takes me up to age 11.....

John G. · « **Reply #51 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:40:39 AM »

Slept well. There were dreams, but they have flitted away.

John G. · « **Reply #52 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:41:18 AM »

Quote from: Jrand73 on January 30, 2024, 07:39:45 AM

I'm like Ginger Rogers, the first 400 pages takes me up to age 11.....

You’re like Ginger in so many other ways too. Don’t be modest.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #53 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:45:07 AM »

Nice notes.

TOD:

Gene Tierney
Colleen Moore [I have seen the Fairy Castle in Chicago and it is indeed breath taking]
Jean Harlow

John G. · « **Reply #54 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:45:39 AM »

A lot can happen in 11 years.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #55 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:47:34 AM »

The young lady at the insurance agency said "they've been having problems with their printing machine" so she was happy to take my check and give me a receipt.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #56 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:48:39 AM »

LOL DR JOHN G.

I was on page 49 of her autobio and she was still in a high chair in Texas.

John G. · « **Reply #57 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:49:05 AM »

TOD:

Carole Lombard
Irene Dunne
Mabel Normand
Myrna Loy
Jean Harlow
Bette Davis
Paulette Goddard
Barbara Stanwyck
Katharine Hepburn
Gloria Grahame

John G. · « **Reply #58 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:51:04 AM »

Forgot Jean Arthur.

John G. · « **Reply #59 on:** January 30, 2024, 07:51:54 AM »

I’m sure I forgot many more. But the screwball comedy greats were indeed great.

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