A missionary from New England, Winthrop Stark (played by William B. Davidson), professes his love to Princess Zara (Theda Bara in a grass skirt) on the South Sea island of Kolpee in a scene still from the Fox production A Woman There Was (directed by J. Gordon Edwards, 1919) /

source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research 

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Valeska Suratt, 1911

Apeda Studio :: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt for the 1911 Broadway production The Red Rose in which Suratt played Lola, a Parisian artist’s model who falls in love with an American student. Original caption: “Valeska Suratt in The Red Rose, a new musical comedy by Harry B. and Robert B. Smith, music by Robert Hood Bowers, direction of Lee Harrison. Garrick Theater, May 1.” | src Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research