Theda Bara, My Mentor
Subtitle: Under the Wing of Hollywood's First Femme Fatale
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland; McFarland & Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781476662831
Subjects: Motion picture actors and actresses, united states
Description: "As movie patrons sat in darkened theaters in January 1914, they were mesmerized by an alluring temptress with long sable hair and kohl-rimmed eyes. Theda Bara--"the vamp," as she would come to be known--would soon be one of the highest paid film stars of the 1910s, before retiring from the screen in 1926"--