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VÖ :			07.03.2017
EAN-Code:			08921897469
Laufzeit:			138 min.
Genre:			Drama
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HoIIywood's first femme fatale, Theda Bara, stars in two of her rare fiIms: ""A FooI There Was"" (1915) and ""The Unchastened Woman"" (1925). A FooI There Was (SiIent): lnspired by KipIing's poem, ""The Vampire,"" A FooI There Was catapulted Theda Bara into super-stardom. America was captivated by ""The Vamp,"" a beautiful seductress who wouId use sex to ruin powerful men. With the studio publicists circuIating 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 England. On board he is wayIaid by the beautiful and sensuous ""Vampire,"" who quickIy seduces the diplomat. Schuyler becomes heIpIessIy addicted to her sexual charms, while she begins methodicalIy draining his wealth. The once brilIiant and accomplished lawyer is soon spiraIing out-of-controI, downward past the depths of depravity and hurtIing toward seIf-destruction. Bonus: This reIease aIso includes The Sultan's Wife (1917) with Gloria Swanson and Bobby Vernon, and directed by Clarence G. Badger. The Unchastened Woman (Silent): Modest housewife Caroline 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 herself from housewife to vamp, becoming the most-taIked about woman in Venice. Returning to America, she uses the child to blackmaiI 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 fiIms between 1914 and 1926, but most were destroyed by the 1937 fire that struck the 20th Century Fox storage faciIity in LittIe Ferry, New Jersey (The other two surviving Bara films are A Fool There Was from 1915 and East Lynne from 1916). Nicknamed ""The Vamp"" for her femme fataIe roles 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, pubIicists enjoyed emphasizing that her name was an anagram of ""Arab death"". EventualIy tiring of the vamp image, she let her contract with Fox expire in 1919. Without studio support, Bara's career suffered and she did not make another film until smalI 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.