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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 10, 2019 21:54:01 GMT
The only known audio clip of silent film vamp Theda Bara speaking at LUX Radio Theatre in 1936. She speaks at 0:37 seconds
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Nov 10, 2019 21:57:20 GMT
Theda Bara "Cleopatra" (1917) surviving footage.flv
Almost all of her forty films have been lost (only three survive, as well as a handful of fragments as of 2009), giving her perhaps the highest percentage of lost work for somebody with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 10, 2019 23:57:14 GMT
Feologild OakesThanks for posting this. She sounds so different from what I ever imagined her voice would be like !
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Post by bess1971s on Nov 11, 2019 18:05:26 GMT
I thought I detected that mid-Atlantic accent that so many American actors used back then.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 11, 2019 18:13:39 GMT
I thought I detected that mid-Atlantic accent that so many American actors used back then. Maybe she picked up the British accent of Charles Brabin her husband of 34 years 
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Post by marshamae on Nov 11, 2019 20:03:32 GMT
She grew up in Cincinnati as Theodosia Goodman and graduated from my high school WALNUT HILLS.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Nov 11, 2019 20:11:09 GMT
She grew up in Cincinnati as Theodosia Goodman and graduated from my high school WALNUT HILLS. COOL ! Do they have anything commemorating her having been a student there ? I saw that Walnut Hills HS info in her biog and found that so un-Vampish !
Also the name derivation : Promotional claims fed off the fact that her stage name was chosen because it is an anagram for "Arab Death". In reality, "Theda" was a childhood nickname for Theodosia, and "Bara" was a shortened form of her maternal grandfather's last name, Baranger.
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Post by msdemos on Nov 11, 2019 21:43:53 GMT
Nice! For some reason I half-expected one of those "harsh" voices that some silent film stars had that became problematic when 'talkies' finally arrived (à la Jean Hagen as "Lina Lamont", in Singin' In The Rain (1952), or Mia Farrow as "Sally White", who had different voice problems of her own to overcome in Radio Days (1987)).....  SAVE FERRIS
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Post by Prime etc. on Nov 11, 2019 21:50:43 GMT
For some reason this makes me think of the Simpsons:
Mr. Burns: What did you do this weekend, Smithers?
Smithers: I caught up on my laundry wrote a letter to my mother. I took Hercules out to be clipped.
Mr Burns: Who the devil is Hercules?
Smithers: My Yorkshire terrier. He's tiny. You know, it's a joke. Here's a picture of Hurky.
Mr Burns: Well, don't you know how to paint the town red.
Smithers: May I ask about your weekend?
Mr Burns: A bit overly familiar, but I'll allow it. I took in a movie. A piece of filth featuring a blonde harlot who spent half the film naked as a jaybird. Give the great unwashed a pair of oversized breasts and a happy ending and they'll oink for more. Call me old-fashioned, but movies were sexier when the actors kept their clothes on. Vilma Banky did more with one raised eyebrow than an entire--
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Post by teleadm on Nov 12, 2019 18:30:47 GMT
Theda Bara, a bit older:  |
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