Today's inspiration continues to be in the Halloween tone, can't be helped :)... We never dress up and join the revelers, but if we would I think I'd go as Theda Bara in "A Fool There Was"...
"Bara plays a vamp who uses her charms to seduce and corrupt a moral Wall Street lawyer, John Schuyler (Edward Jose). A Fool There Was was long considered controversial for such risqué title cards as "Kiss me, my fool!" {source}
I love her look and this particular outfit and I think it would be fun to go around with my husband and yell "Kiss me, my fool!" loudly to him from time to time. I guess Terry would have to go as a moral Wall Street Lawyer.
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I have a wee soft spot for macabre so let me indulge myself in a few more Halloween-ish images.
Great posters by Josef Fenneker...
Das Frauenhaus for Brescia, 1920 at Marmorhaus Cinema in Berlin
Toten Tanz (Dance of Death)
Dance of Death
A poster created by Fenneker for a "living sculpture" exhibit, Sinflut (The Flood), by O. van Rembarg
Der Teufel un die Circe
"Fenneker, a German artist in 1920s Berlin, “became the eye of the cultural and political hurricane that was Weimar Germany”. A painter, graphic designer, and stage designer, he worked in a “mixed style, strongly tinged with expressionist characteristics”, and there is the foreboding of gathering storms and imminent, though decadent, doom in almost all his work." {source}
Love his work.
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Witches, drinking tea. Quite harmless, see?
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This crow stroller is an absolute Halloween must-have. Don't you think?
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Black cats at cemeteries. Adorable!
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Falling to sleep after you've been reading about witches and ghosts. Quite difficult.
Oh, no! GHOSTS!
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Another great poster for Poe's "Tomb of Ligeia"
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Pola Negri in "Woman from Moscow" 1928 - stunning and a tiny bit scary.
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And a beautiful tea gown for your Halloween and other Goth occasions.
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And ending again with Nosferatu and a bit of trivia...
Max Schreck relaxing between takes & creeping everyone out on the set of Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (1922, F.W. Murnau)
During the filming of Nosferatu, Schreck reportedly stayed in character at all times, even when the cameras weren’t rolling, and the cast and crew never saw him out of full makeup and costume. While this immersive approach to acting is commonplace now, it was unusual back then and his appearance & behavior led to wild rumors that Schreck actually was a vampire. If this photo is indicative of Schreck’s demeanor around the set of Nosferatu, the crew’s wariness seems understandable.
xoxoxo
Post title is a quote by Edgar Allan Poe, one of my favorites.
Indulge you? I'm counting on you to keep it up. These are terrific. Shall investigate more once I go mail my ballot.
xo
Susan
Posted by: Susan | November 01, 2010 at 11:29 AM