With a filmography including over forty films, Bara was one of the most prolific stars of the silent era. As a partially lost ...

Both exalt art as a calling. After a movie collapses as a result of a scandal, Tinseltown’s moguls blacklist Klaus, who flees ...

A profile sketch of a woman with curly hair, dark makeup, and smoking a cigarette scrawled on concrete in the undercroft of the Lincoln Memorial could be that of silent-film star Theda Bara, according ...

Before Keaton, the Keystone Film Company ruled slapstick comedy. The studio launched the careers of some of the most important figures of the silent era, including Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe “Fatty ...

The AMRC holds one of the nation's most extensive collections of printed music used in theatres from the vaudeville productions of the nineteenth century through the silent film era. The Perry Como ...

These new crime films were different from the morality tales of the silent era's crime genre. Their ethnic characters, pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, were the new archetypal Americans.

Northwest Siders are mourning the loss of the accomplished photoplay organist who founded the Silent Film Society of Chicago ...

the National Park Service theorizes the drawing may depict a scandalous figure from another era in American history: the racy silent-film star Theda Bara. “I think there’s a compelling (if ...