Tag: vamp

Adrian costume design, 1925

An Adrian costume design for Myrna Loy for What Price Beauty? (1925)
Pathé Exchange, 1925. Pencil and gouache on illustration board, signed at lower right, (“Adrian”), and inscribed on lower left: “Birthday Greeting / Myrna Loy.” The drawing, which depicts a blonde Myrna Loy in a sleek black gown with low gold sash, was executed for the Natacha Rambova-written and produced silent. This was one of the earliest film appearances of Myrna Loy, who played an exotic vamp, and among the earlier films for which Adrian designed costumes. | src Bonhams

The Shrine of the Vampire, 1919

The Shrine of the Vampire: Louise Glaum, Theda Bara, Virginia Pearson, Clara Kimball Young, Olive Thomas, Dorothy Dalton, Olga Petrova, Pauline Frederick, Lina Cavalieri. Film Fun, January 1919. | src internet archive
The Shrine of the Vampire: Louise Glaum, Theda Bara, Virginia Pearson, Clara Kimball Young, Olive Thomas, Dorothy Dalton, Olga Petrova, Pauline Frederick, Lina Cavalieri. Film Fun, January 1919. | src internet archive
The Shrine of the Vampire: Louise Glaum, Theda Bara, Virginia Pearson, Clara Kimball Young, Olive Thomas, Dorothy Dalton, Olga Petrova, Pauline Frederick, Lina Cavalieri. Film Fun, January 1919. | src internet archive
The Shrine of the Vampire. Film Fun, January 1919. (detail) | src internet archive

Theda Bara, Screenland, 1923

Melbourne Spurr :: Vamp and actress Theda Bara as Cleopatra (1917). Caption reads: “Theda Bara in the hey-day of her fame. Her inspired press agent gave it out that Theda was born in the shadow of the pyramids.” Published in Screenland magazine, June 1923 issue. | src dr macro

Theda Bara, 1916-1917

Silent film actress Theda Bara, possibly from The Eternal Sappho (1916). Stamped on the verso is “Miss Bara, Fox, How’s the Eternal Triangle”. Her name is also there written in pencil, and “Barbara Kitson, 1917” is written in pen along the top. | src House of Mirth

Theda Bara, 1920s

Hoover Art Co. :: Portrait of actress Theda Bara, 1920s. | src Flickr
Hoover Art Co. :: Portrait of actress Theda Bara, 1920s. | src Flickr
Orval Hixon :: Portrait of Theda Bara with hands clasped under her chin, 1921 | src wikimedia commons
Orval Hixon :: Portrait of Theda Bara with hands clasped under her chin, 1921 | src wikimedia commons
Orval Hixon :: Portrait of Theda Bara with hands clasped under her chin, 1921 | src wikimedia commons
Orval Hixon :: Portrait of Theda Bara with hands clasped under her chin, 1921 (cropped) | src wikimedia commons
Theda Bara, a Suggestion for Your Easter Chapeau, March 1926. International Newsreel (publisher) | src NPG
Theda Bara, a Suggestion for Your Easter Chapeau, March 1926. International Newsreel (publisher) | src NPG