{"id":1339,"date":"2014-08-19T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"great-actresses-of-the-past-16mm-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2014\/08\/19\/great-actresses-of-the-past-16mm-film-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Actresses of the Past (16mm Film Screening)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The film Great Actresses of the Past, compiled by MOMA Film Library in 1938, offers four legendary theatre actresses of the Belle \u00c3\u2030poque in their most famous roles.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Arthur Symons, legendary English drama critic, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Only three actresses in our generation possessed that supreme quality, Genius: Eleanora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt and R\u00c3\u00a9jane.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Great Actresses of the Past showcases:<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u0007Sarah Bernhardt in La Dame aux Cam\u00c3\u00a9lias from the 1912 Film d\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Art production <br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u0007R\u00c3\u00a9jane in the title role in Madame Sans-G\u00c3\u00aane from a 1911 film<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u0007Minnie Maddern Fiske in Vanity Fair from the 1915 Edison-Kleine film<br \/>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 \u0007Eleanora Duse in Cenere, a 1916 Ambrosio-Caesar film <\/p>\n<p>After the screening, Ilana Turner (Founder of The R\u00c3\u00a9jane Project and playwright of the upcoming O R\u00c3\u00a9jane) will further discuss R\u00c3\u00a9jane, a remarkable French actress and theater impresario who changed French culture, fashion and socio-politics as the 19th century morphed into the 20th. World famous in her time, R\u00c3\u00a9jane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story has been all-but-lost. As a longtime friend of R\u00c3\u00a9jane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s descendants, Turner founded the R\u00c3\u00a9jane Project, which is dedicated to telling the story of this groundbreaking, indomitable woman of strength and passion. Based on the clip of R\u00c3\u00a9jane from Great Actresses of the Past, Turner co-wrote the paper \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Madame Sans Genre: A Collaboration in the Process of Theatre and Documentation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for the Theatre Library Association (Annual Conference Plenary Session, 2010) with Tonia N. Sutherland, PhD Information Studies.<\/p>\n<p>This free program is presented by the Fiction &amp; Literature Department and the Photo Collection Department, sponsored by Photo Friends LAPL.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1339\" data-postid=\"1339\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1339 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film Great Actresses of the Past, compiled by MOMA Film Library in 1938, offers four legendary theatre actresses of the Belle \u00c3\u2030poque in their most famous roles. To quote Arthur Symons, legendary English drama critic, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Only three actresses in our generation possessed that supreme quality, Genius: Eleanora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt and R\u00c3\u00a9jane.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&nbsp;Great Actresses of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}