A profile sketch of a woman with curly hair, dark makeup, and smoking a cigarette scrawled on concrete in the undercroft of ...

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...

Stephen Potter, a retired regional archaeologist for the service’s national capital region, cataloged some of the graffiti in ...

Long hidden graffiti scrawled on a pillar deep beneath the Lincoln Memorial may be a besotted worker’s drawing of a sexy ...

Forty-five feet below the Lincoln Memorial is art of a very different kind. On the pillars in the memorial's basement, where ...

It was during this time the first movie stars began to shape the film industry into ... Born Theodosia Burr Goodman, Theda Bara was a successful silent film and stage actress. She is identified as one ...

While Bettina isn’t quite the stereotypical flapper (the film is set in 1909), she ... epitomized in campy silent stars like Theda Bara, the trend in the maturing motion-picture medium was ...

The Heart of Lincoln,” a 1922 movie directed by the pioneering filmmaker Francis Ford, was found at a stock-footage library ...

In “Silent,” Blair will play Skylar, a sound designer hired anonymously to create the audio for a rare silent film. Disturbed ...

Silent films feature actors bringing ... Lois Weber, who also stars. That doesn’t mean that Wings is a bad movie. The central plot, about a rivalry between two World War I pilots, functions ...

The 1915 motion picture released by Universal was listed by the Library of Congress as among 7,000 silent films believed to be lost forever. The director and star of the film was Francis Ford, the ...

Released in 1915, the film was directed by Francis Ford, the brother of famed filmmaker John Ford. It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as “lost” Sonja Anderson ...