In a Lonely Place

Lana Turner, early 1940s

"That 'glamour' is something created strictly by the camera. I don't have it and when I meet men who have seen me only on the screen, they're obviously let down. I'm not the sort of girl who likes to go to night spots all done up to my teeth. I'm not the sort photographers gang around. It just doesn't happen. By glamour, I mean Lana Turner. She is glamorous."

[verbally recreating a vehicular strangulation] "You get to a lonely place in the road, and you begin to squeeze..."

In a Lonely Place (1950).

Cleopatra (1917) - Newly Discovered Footage

Another excerpt from ‘Cleopatra’ (1917) has been found! After last year’s discovery of a small excerpt from Salome (1918) we now have another piece of film history.

The story goes that this piece of film was incuded in a lot of old film cuttings on ebay; once the byer had restored them, the call was put out on facebook for anyone who could recoginse the film.

I follow the thevintagecostumecollector on instagram who was able to identify Theda straightaway & is lucky enough to own a couple of Theda’s costume pieces himself!