25 8 / 2008
“According to her studio, Theda Bara was born around 1892, in the shadow of the Pyramids, the daughter of an Italian artist and a French actress. Film history books state that Bara was actually born in 1890, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Yet this also turns out to be a myth: a little research reveals that Theodosia Goodman was really born in Avondale (a wealthy, largely Jewish, suburb of Cincinnati) on July 29, 1885.”
I don’t have any context for reblogging this it’s just the kind of shit I love.
