
17: Theda Bara, Hollywood’s First Sex Symbol
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Jennifer Lawrence: The Ultimate Cool Girl
By 1920, Theta Barra was unemployed and unemployable. None of the studios believed she could do anything but be a vamp. By that point, The Flapper had taken over as the epitome of modern feminine cool. She died before silent films had been gone long enough for them to really be taken seriously. In fact, in the 50s, there were often treated like an embarrassment of Hollywood's infancy.
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