Photo Title

1917: Cleopatra

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Production Title

Cleopatra

Production Date

1917

Photograph Caption

Silent film star Theda Bara, "the original sex siren who added the word "vamp" to the world's vocabulary....[was] once billed as the most wicked woman in the world for her siilent sizzling films." (Cleveland (Ohio) Press caption; United Press International).

Dialogue

Antony's "serpent of old Nile" (I.v.25)
"A gypsy's lust" (I.i.10)

Play Title

Antony and Cleopatra

Venue

Film

Place of Production

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Creator

Genre

Roman

Character

Cleopatra: Theda Bara

Other Credits

J. Gordon Edwards - Director
Fox Studios

Object Type

black-and-white photographs

Size of Original

8 x 10 in.

Donor

Cole, Joseph E.

Repository

Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.

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