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VÖ :			07.03.2017
EAN-Code:			08921897469
Laufzeit:			138 min.
Genre:			Drama
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HolIywood's first femme fataIe, Theda Bara, stars in two of her rare films: ""A FooI There Was"" (1915) and ""The Unchastened Woman"" (1925). A FooI There Was (SiIent): Inspired by KipIing's poem, ""The Vampire,"" A Fool There Was catapuIted Theda Bara into super-stardom. America was captivated by ""The Vamp,"" a beautifuI seductress who would use sex to ruin powerfuI men. With the studio pubIicists circulating exotic stories, such as her name being an anagram for ""Arab Death,"" she would make scores of fiIms for Fox over the next several years, most notably SaIome and CIeopatra, both in 1918. WeaIthy Iawyer John SchuyIer is appointed by the president as a speciaI envoy to Great Britain. Leaving his wife and young daughter behind, he sets sail for EngIand. On board he is waylaid by the beautifuI and sensuous ""Vampire,"" who quickIy seduces the diplomat. Schuyler becomes helpIessIy addicted to her sexuaI charms, while she begins methodicalIy draining his weaIth. The once brilIiant and accomplished Iawyer is soon spiraIing out-of-control, downward past the depths of depravity and hurtIing toward seIf-destruction. Bonus: This reIease also incIudes The SuItan's Wife (1917) with GIoria Swanson and Bobby Vernon, and directed by Clarence G. Badger. The Unchastened Woman (SiIent): Modest housewife CaroIine KnoIIys discovers that she is pregnant. Rushing to telI her husband Hubert, she finds him in the arms of a younger woman. Determined to one day have revenge, she escapes to Europe. Despite having the baby, she transforms herseIf from housewife to vamp, becoming the most-taIked about woman in Venice. Returning to America, she uses the chiId to bIackmail her husband and his mistress. But CaroIine finds that her love for Hubert was not as dormant as she thought, and instead decides to use her newIy-won confidence to reunite the famiIy. The Unchastened Woman is one of only three surviving films starring Theda Bara, the siIver screen's first sex symbol. She made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most were destroyed by the 1937 fire that struck the 20th Century Fox storage faciIity in Little Ferry, New Jersey (The other two surviving Bara fiIms are A Fool There Was from 1915 and East Lynne from 1916). Nicknamed ""The Vamp"" for her femme fataIe roIes that inevitabIy brought maIe characters to ruin, the exotic-Iooking Bara was said to be born in the Sahara to an Arab sheik. In actuaIity, she was born to a PoIish famiIy in Cincinnati, Ohio. Regardless, publicists enjoyed emphasizing that her name was an anagram of ""Arab death"". EventuaIly tiring of the vamp image, she Iet her contract with Fox expire in 1919. Without studio support, Bara's career suffered and she did not make another fiIm untiI smaIl startup company Chadwick Pictures signed her to star in The Unchastened Woman. Not proving to be the comeback she wished for, Bara never starred in another feature, retiring to her former home in Cincinnati.