Fed-up with being remembered for only playing the role of vampires, Theda Bara wrote this piece for the editors of Vanity Fair in which she listed several sound reasons as to why she would never play such a roll again:

“To me, there is nothing so quaintly naive as this inability of the moving picture public to disassociate the screen personality of a star from his or her own personality. I wonder what they think a Mack Sennett bathing girl must be like around the house”.


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