Category: NYWiFT
Reel Jersey Girls: A Century of Women Filmmakers
Reel Jersey Girl Film Exhibit at Fort Lee Museum highlighted the role of women filmmakers such as Pearl White, Mary Pickford and Alice Guy Blache, the first women director in cinema history, built and opened her Solax Studio in Fort Lee in 1912. The first sex symbol of the American silver screen, Theda Bara worked at Fox Studio in Fort Lee from 1915-1919. This exhibit will showcase archival photos from Theda Bara's personal scrapbook. Film...
Reel Jersey Girls: Tribute to Theda Bara
Fort Lee Film Commission presents Cliffhanger 2012 Series with a Tribute to Theda Bara Theda Bara, an American silent film actress, was one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. A Fool There Was (1914) is the film that made Theda Bara a star, creating the term "vamp" to describe a hypnotically alluring woman and coining the now famous quote– "Kiss me, my fool!" (often misquoted as "Kiss me, you...