I think this photo - probably a studio publicity still - is absolutely beautiful. The use of black and white, and the downward diagonal of her form, from upper right to lower left, is wonderful, IMHO. The success of her 1915 film, A Fool There Was, allowed producer William Fox to found Fox Film Corporation, and the success of her following films insured his success. A Fool There Was is one of the four feature films (not including two short comedies) that exist today, out of the 40 feature films that she made during her career. What I would not give to see her cinematic treatments of Carmen, The Vixen, and, of which only a tantalizing 40 seconds of which exist today, Cleopatra.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Theda Bara photo #2
I think this photo - probably a studio publicity still - is absolutely beautiful. The use of black and white, and the downward diagonal of her form, from upper right to lower left, is wonderful, IMHO. The success of her 1915 film, A Fool There Was, allowed producer William Fox to found Fox Film Corporation, and the success of her following films insured his success. A Fool There Was is one of the four feature films (not including two short comedies) that exist today, out of the 40 feature films that she made during her career. What I would not give to see her cinematic treatments of Carmen, The Vixen, and, of which only a tantalizing 40 seconds of which exist today, Cleopatra.
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