Vamp

Vamps from silent films:

Theda Bara
Musidora
Pina Menichelli
Nita Naldi
Olga Baclanova
Brigitte Helm

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• vamp
• femme
• fatale
• silent
• film
• Theda
• Bara
• Musidora
• Pina
• Menichelli
• Nita
• Naldi
• Olga
• Baclanova
• Helm
• Rudolph
• Valentino

[circethesorceress]

Isn't that Mary Philbin in "The man who laughs," not Baclaclova?

[alexiscrabb]

@circethesorceress Hi. Philbin is the leading woman in the film; she plays Dea, the blind girl who's the real love of Gwynplaine (Veidt). You can see her at 5:53. Baclanova plays Duchess Josiana, the fatal and mundane woman who tries to seduce Gwynplaine.

[Hughman54]

Great clips. I wish they were identified. Some of these films I'd like to look up and see in their entirety.

[alexiscrabb]

Here are the titles:

1) "A fool there was" 1915, directed by Frank Powell, with Theda Bara;

2) "Judex" 1916, directed by Louis Feuillade with Musidora;

3) "La moglie di Claudio" 1918, directed by Gero Zambuto, with Pina Menichelli;

4) "Blood and sand" 1922, directed by Fred Niblo, with Nita Naldi and Rudolph Valentino;

5) "The man who laughs" 1928, directed by Paul Leni, with Olga Baclanova and Conrad Veidt;

6) "Alraune" 1928, directed by Henrik Galeen, with Brigitte Helm.

[franimalistic]

Movies today are so over-sexed... they totally neglect things like the subtle sensuality in an unsolicited brush of the fingers. These ladies knew how to work it! :P

[MoneyBEATSsoul]

Totally. These films have alot more sex appeal than movies of today. A flash of cleavage/ nice legs/seductive eyes/pouty lips. That's all you need. It gets the message across easily and at the same time, the ladies all look very classy. The time period that these girls were living in was so censored and humble compared to today's age of nudity and swearing, however they are ten times sexier than anybody these days. It's all very ironic.

[mustwinder]

Pina had one hell of a chin, she should have been a boxer! She is fantasic though, love her. Thanks for sharing.

[joeblowthehot]

Men are so weak..MWAAAHAHAHA..HAAAA!!!!

[SirRiehl]

I love it!!

[IsabelDhampir82]

@0dxpx Ellas son ´´vamp´´ del cine, por lo menos algunas, otras fueron actrices de verdad y no solo carne: Musidora y Britte Helm son d otra clase d actrices, no tendria q estar aqui, mezcladas con otras q solo eran sus comtemporaneas.....

[0dxpx]

There are no "vamps" in The Man Who Laughs.

[PlayIt4MeAgainSam]

Great video tribute Alexis! 5 Stars.

[janetmorales221986]

wow the women in these era's were so beautiful and sexy but in an elegant way not like today's version of sexy which means that a woman has to expose more skin in order 2 be sexy