Louise Brooks is our girl, but in our darker moods, we here at Teleport City want nothing more than to skulk down into some opulently decorated but ominously spooky antechamber to engage in some manner of esoteric Thelemic ritual with Hollywood’s first vamp. Theda Bara had an elaborate, if untrue, mysterious background that added to her public mystique. If any screen siren of the Silent era was going to take us in and destroy us, you’d be hard pressed to find a better way to go that being devoured by the woman with “the face of a vampire but the heart of a feminist.”...
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