Lights! Camera! Action!: Part II
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Lights! Camera! Action!
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…Continued from Part I. Visit Ithaca.com to read the prior installment.
Theda Bara, the worldâs first international movie sex symbol, came to upstate Ithaca, New York, in 1919 to shoot a big-budget silent movie. During the summer of 1919, at the end of the last great pandemic, Bara filmed parts of the feature romance âKathleen Mavourneenâ (1919) for the William Fox studio. Baraâs presence in town made an indelible impression on Ithaca and on Ithacans.
LOCAL ACTOR REMEMBERED THEDA
While attending Cornell University as an undergraduate engineering student, Leonard Miscall was moonlighting at the Wharton movie studio in Ithaca. âPicking up some spare cash like a lot of local people,â Miscall remembered in a 1977 interview at age 80, three years before his death.Â