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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--"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.
Contents
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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