Silent Wierdness

    1897-1965   Lori Bara (seen above on the right), baby sister of famed vamp Theda, and occasional actress in her own right, was born on t...

1867-1925 Canadian born silent film director J. Gordon Edwards was born on this day in Montreal.  Like so many silent film pioneer...

This is a photo of Theda Bara with film director hubbie Charles Brabin many years after she quit acting at "fancy dress party,...

This is actually a cigarettes case with the image of the most famous vamp of all time.  I don't smoke, but I would love to have ...

1879-1938 Born Johan Verner Öhlund in Nyby, Sweden (a tiny little place at the time), his family immigrated to the U.S. in 1892...

Interior of a very early glass ceiling studio When you need lighting--what better way to get it than from the sun?  While the very fir...

A Fool There Was (1915)

I cannot say how utterly tickled I am to be able to post this very early feature in it's entirety!  This is an early example of t...

I ran across this on the web and thought it would make a fitting Halloween post.  It is well done, and Bara has been a favorite of mine si...