Theda Bara, My Mentor

Under the Wing of Hollywood's First Femme Fatale

Joan Craig, Beverly F. Stout (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2016
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6283-1 (ISBN)

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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 would soon be one of the highest paid film stars of the 1910s, before retiring from the screen in 1926. In 1946 the author met Bara at her Beverly Hills home and the actress became her mentor. This memoir is the story of their friendship.

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, earning an unheard of $4,000 per week, before retiring from the screen in 1926.

In 1946, at age five, the author met Bara--then 61--at her Beverly Hills home and the actress became her mentor. This memoir is the story of their friendship.

Joan Craig lives in Burbank, California. Beverly F. Stout lives in Greenwood, Mississippi.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments delete xi

Preface delete 1

1. Theda, the Early Years

Future Woman

Omens of Luck

2. Joan, the Early Years

California, Land of Dreams

3. First Meeting

The Lady in the House

Magical Move and Spirits

4. Settling

The Brown Derby

Flying Tigers

The Afterlife

Open House

A Croquet Garden Party

The Shadow of the Sphinx

Mansion on West Adams

Edendale and Cleopatra

Theda Shops at Home

The Brabins, Mae, and Sid

Invite a Friend

Audition

5. Remembering

Fortune

Gable, Fleming and Bergman

Bergman as Joan of Arc

A Masquerade Party

Easter in Beverly Hills Hotel

Communism in Hollywood

A Night to Remember

A Crashed Flying Disc

Finishing the Script

September

Joan of Arc at the Stake

A Television Party

158th Infantry Regiment

6. Friends for Life

1948

Marionettes

The Metropolitan Opera

Adoption

Canasta

The Premiere of Joan of Arc

Hollywood Loses Fleming

You Have the Best Part

Finding Montgomery Clift

The Pageant of the Masters

Theda’s Life Story

On Location with Cleopatra

Contract Signed

Stock Market on the Rise

Ambassador to Luxembourg

7. Traveling Abroad

The Coronation

St. Donat’s Castle, Wales

Kissing the Blarney Stone

8. Back Home in Los Angeles

The Disney Dream

At Home

The Last Party

9. My Theda

Be True to Yourself

The Following Years

10. The Stage Plays

1908: The Devil

1912: The Quaker Girl

1920: The Blue Flame

11. The Films

1914: The Stain

A Fool There Was

1915: The Kreutzer Sonata

The Clemenceau Case

The Devil’s Daughter

Lady Audley’s Secret

The Two Orphans

Sin

Carmen

The Galley Slave

Destruction

1916: The Serpent

Gold and the Woman

Theda Talks to the Public

The Eternal Sapho

East Lynne

Under Two Flags

Her Double Life

Romeo and Juliet

The Vixen

1917: The Darling of Paris

The Tiger Woman

Her Greatest Love

Heart and Soul

Camille

Cleopatra

The Rose of Blood

Du Barry

1918: The Forbidden Path

The Soul of Buddha

Under the Yoke

Salome

When a Woman Sins

The She-Devil

1919: The Light

When Men Desire

The Siren’s Song

A Woman There Was

Kathleen Mavourneen

La Belle Russe

The Lure of Ambition

1925: The Unchastened Woman

1926: Madame Mystery

12. Charles Brabin

Uncle Charlie and Me

The Early Years

Brabin Filmography

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.4.2016
Zusatzinfo	107 photos, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-4766-6283-5 / 1476662835
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6283-1 / 9781476662831
Zustand	Neuware