Where am I in all this?
Michael Newton: Pola Negri, 19 February 2015
Pola Negri: Hollywood’s First Femme Fatale
by Mariusz Kotowski.
Kentucky, 322 pp., £29.95, April 2014,978 0 8131 4488 7 Show More
by Mariusz Kotowski.
Kentucky, 322 pp., £29.95, April 2014,
“... name suggests that Olga Mara is meant to stand in for Theda Bara. Bara was (despite the claim in Mariusz Kotowski’s subtitle) Hollywood’s original femme fatale, or, as they used to say, ‘vamp’. But she was merely a counterfeited version of European – and Egyptian – mystery and sophistication: she was actually Theodosia Goodman, a ... ”
