Pushing the Occult and Vampirism early in the movie industry before there was even Talk in Hollywood! Theda Bara and other 'Vamps' with symbolism like Marina Abramovic's Art.
According to Silentology,
The female vampire began to be a pop culture trope. Alice Eis and Bert French created a vaudeville act featuring a “Vampire Dance,” basing it on the Burne-Jones painting. A play called A Fool There Was debuted in 1909, with The Vampire played by Katharine Kaelred.
But it wasn’t until 1915 that the vamp officially became popularized by, of course, Theda Bara. She technically wasn’t the first one to appear onscreen. Helen Gardner starred in Cleopatra in 1912, and Rosemary Theby portrayed a vamp character in Vitagraph’s The Reincarnation of Karma that same year. A couple other dark-haired femme fatales show up here and there to threaten heroines like Pearl White. And then there’s the matter of Alice Eis and Bert French recreating their vaudeville dance in The Vampire (1913), starring Alice Hollister!
And There you have it. . .a great way to entice, ensnare, entrap... desensitize to satan's ways bu having a film called the Devil's Daughter.
Other vamps began popping up onscreen, usually with the slightly gothic appearance that Theda made familiar. Here’s the mysterious, lavishly-gowned Valeska Suratt, and Valeska Suratt’s hat:
Are these creepy to you and reminiscent of Marina Abramovic's "art"
And here’s the feisty Musidora, a French actress best known for her role in Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires serial (where this pic comes from):
The talented Louise Glaum was nicknamed “The Spider Woman” or “The Tiger Woman,” and was praised for her work in vamp roles:
Virginia Pearson was William Fox’s “second-string Theda Bara,” shown here with a third- or fourth-string skull. Pearson was allegedly under contract as a threat to keep Theda from getting too uppity:
Jetta Goudal, a vamp from the late silent era who was very successful in DeMille productions:
Pola Negri!
Still, according to Silentology,
What attracted audiences to these vamps, to the point where they were showing up in comedies and cartoons? The usual explanation for their popularity is that vamps challenged the expected social norms–they were overtly sexual and aggressive, and thus symbolized the consequences of women going wild.
femme fatales do date all the way back to ancient myths (think Helen of Troy). We might see vamps as the newer incarnation of a familiar stock character, with the magical new medium of film adding extra allure and making them readily familiar to audiences around the world. The slightly “foreign-looking” dark-haired vamp was in tune with the trendy interest in all things exotic, and their “supernatural” side fit in with the interest in spiritualism.
Nothing about vampirism comes from God, so this only plays into the allure and temptation the ultimate deceiver attempt to entrap. . .then like a black widow, ultimately lead to a Kill. Only satan could sell it as if men considered risking their lives worth the risk, preferring the dark and sinister just so that satan could collect one more soul!
Back to Theda Bara,
According to The Sun,
BEFORE the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s, an altogether darker palate engulfed Tinseltown... mostly thanks to actress Theda Bara.But she wasn't born that way.
Theodosia Goodman was born in Cincinnati in 1885 and was a struggling actress when she was cast in 1915's Siren of Hell.
Interesting name right? Where do you suppose That came from? So Much meaning in a name. Interesting many of these films burned.
Seems there has been a fascination with these creatures from hell since ancient times.
Not long after she starred in A Fool There Was, about a single woman with a love of velvet, fur and jewels, who seduces a married man and rinses him for every penny.
Men and women were captivated by this silver screen newcomer, who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere to cause havoc among their favourite actors and actresses.
It's not known why Theda was initially cast by Fox in these early films, but it's been claimed she was getting old and had no money, making her willing to work for a pittance.
However, the studio's chance paid off, and between 1915 and 1918, she appeared in 33 films including The Galley Slave, Sin, Destruction, The Serpent, The Tiger Woman, The Rose of Blood, The Forbidden Path and When a Woman Sins.
Theda Baraborn Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" (short for vampire),[a] later fueling the rising popularity in "vamp" roles that encapsulated exoticism and sexual domination.
Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and then retired from acting in 1926, never appearing in a sound film.
On July 9, 1937, a major fire broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film industry laboratories, studios, and vaults, although the precise causes were often unknown. In Little Ferry, gases produced by decaying film, combined with high temperatures and inadequate ventilation, resulted in spontaneous combustion.
One death and two injuries resulted from the fire, which also destroyed all of the archived film in the vaults, resulting in the complete loss of most of the silent films produced by Fox Film Corporation before 1932. Also destroyed were Educational Pictures negatives and films of several other studios.
Large and dangerous fires sometimes resulted. On May 4, 1897, one of the first major fires involving nitrate film began when a Lumière projector caught fire at the Bazar de la Charité in Paris. The resulting blaze caused 126 deaths. In the United States, a series of fires occurred at industry facilities. The Lubin Manufacturing Company's vault in Philadelphia exploded on June 13, 1914, followed on December 9 by a fire that destroyed Thomas Edison's laboratory complex in West Orange, New Jersey. The New York studio of the Famous Players Film Company burned in September 1915; in July 1920, the shipping facility of its corporate successor, Famous Players-Lasky, was destroyed by a fire in Kansas City, Missouri, despite construction intended to minimize that risk. The United Film Ad Service vault, also in Kansas City, burned on August 4, 1928, and a fire was reported at Pathé Exchange nine days later. In October 1929, the Consolidated Film Industries facility was badly damaged by a nitrate fire. Spontaneous combustion was not proven to have occurred in any of these fires, and may not have been recognized as possible before a 1933 study determined that the temperatures necessary for nitrate film to self-ignite had been significantly overestimated.
And so it began. . .Deception as Bara was Not born in Egypt, but rather in the Avondale section of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father was Bernard Goodman (1853–1936), a prosperous Jewish tailor born in Poland. Her mother, Pauline Louise Françoise (née de Coppett; 1861–1957), was born in Switzerland.
Bara was known for wearing very revealing costumes in her films. Such outfits were banned from Hollywood films after the Production Code (a.k.a. the Hays Code) started in 1930, and then was more strongly enforced in 1934. It was popular at that time to promote an actress as mysterious, with an exotic background. The studios promoted Bara with a massive publicity campaign, billing her as the Egyptian-born daughter of a French actress and an Italian sculptor. They claimed she had spent her early years in the Sahara desert under the shadow of the Sphinx, then moved to France to become a stage actress. (In fact, Bara never had been to Egypt, and her time in France amounted to just a few months.) They called her the "Serpent of the Nile" and encouraged her to discuss mysticism and the occult in interviews. Some film historians point to this as the birth of two Hollywood phenomena: the studio publicity department and the press agent (later evolving into the public relations person).
In promoting the 1917 film Cleopatra, Fox Studio publicists noted that the name was an anagram of Arab death, and her press agents, to enhance her exotic appeal to moviegoers, falsely promoted the young Ohio native as "the daughter of an Arab sheik and a French woman, born in the Sahara." In 1917, the Goodman family legally changed its surname to Bara.
No worries, Hollywood fans who Must Have their entertainment at all costs, actually Want to be lied to right? They enjoy their mystic, deceptions and all that is an utter illusion, well really a delusion. They do not take to heart the saying, "all that glitters is not gold." They would rather Pretend it IS gold.
As to vamping, critics stated that her portrayal of calculating, cold-hearted women was morally instructive to men. Bara responded by saying "I will continue doing vampires as long as people sin."
Does this remind you of Marina Abramovic's work?
Marina Abramovic's work
You see what they do there right? Always make something inhuman appear alluring! God said the serpent was the most subtile beast of the field. Rest assured, He meant it for a reason!
Notice the serpent around her leg,
Magazines of the time referred to her as 'The Arch-Torpedo of Domesticity', 'The Queen of Vampires', 'The Wickedest Woman in the World', 'Pugatory’s Ivory Angel', 'The Devil’s Handmaiden' and 'The Priestess of Sin'.
Did Theda Bera "dabble in the occult?" Does one "dabble" with evil or is evil IS as evil does?
Here is a list of just Some of the people who admit it and are proud of it. I believe the question becomes, Why does Hollywood, the entertainment industry and the music industry feel it is so Trendy and cool? Why do they downplay when people point out the obvious as to just who the occult is connected to? Why do they not want the general public discussing it even when they throw it in. our faces?
https://listverse.com/2015/06/15/10-famous-people-who-dabbled-in-the-occult/
UPDATE
Based on a deep dive that ensued from Great Warrior Joseph A. Ross's post,
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. See connecting articles to Marina Abramovic and the satanic culture that. is promoted in connecting articles below.
Sources and Connecting Articles,
https://silentology.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/vamps-your-great-grandfathers-femme-fatales/
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/white-females-hel
As DeMille was mentioned and I have done a few reports on him and the connecting home he had with Charlie Chaplin, here are esome connecting reports,
California homes, tunnels under L.A./ Producer de Mille/ his friend Chaplin their houses connected
Charlie Chaplin Open Secret of impregnating a 15 year old and Uncle speaking of Statutory Rape
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