Bara
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“I met Theda Bara in her prime, for your information, and she was a riot, and the movie was fabulous. It’s a shame about the fire.”
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“But if I do,” he said, “you have to promise to tell me about Theda Bara. And let me watch The Mountain Eagle.”
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For a moment there was silence, and then, because there were a hundred places he didn’t want the line of questions to go: “Did you see Theda Bara’s Cleopatra?”
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Besides, she was making a point to keep out of arm’s reach of him, and he was dying to hear more about Theda Bara.
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“And the rest of Theda Bara’s filmography—Molly had a massive crush on her. And the sound version of the 1925 Phantom of the Opera. We’ve even got some Cantonese films, courtesy of an old contact of Molly’s from the opera in Chinatown, the complete collection of Esther Eng’s work, some rare Fei Mu. We keep trying to figure out the logistics of putting together a showcase.”
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