America's Sweetheart morphed into The Vamp. Prohibition turned law-abiding ... nation in the throes of momentous transformation. The film raises vital questions that are as relevant today as ...

The film’s title comes from a Rudyard Kipling poem, “The Vampire,” about unrequited love. The name, shortened to Vamp, “is the origin of the term we use today to refer to a seductive woman ...

she had her breakthrough role in a film called ‘A Fool There Was’ in which she played a character called ‘The Vampire,’” Litterst wrote. Eventually shortened to “Vamp” Bara’s ...

Century-old graffiti under the Lincoln Memorial may depict silent-film star Theda Bara, with a profile sketch and the word "Vamp" found on the pillars in the basement. National Park Service ...

Next to the drawing is the word “Vamp,” slang from the early part of ... Mike Litterst told the Post that Bara’s 1915 film “A Fool There Was” may have inspired the drawing.

At its heart, Nosferatu speaks to the universal longing for our desires to be reciprocated in full, and the craving to be so utterly consumed by something that we’re willing to lose ourselves in ...