#valeska suratt

[weirdlookindog]

Valeska Suratt as Ayesha in She (1917) - lost film

[principiumindividuationis777]

[silentdivasblog]

Valeska Suratt ❤️

[silentagecinema]

beauty of the vamps of old hollywood:

theda bara

valeska suratt

musidora

viriginia pearson

nita naldi

olga petrova

jetta goudal

pola negri

louise glaum

[diioonysus]

valeska surratt (june 29th 1882 - july 2nd 1962) was an american stage and silent film actress. over the course of her career, suratt appeared in 11 silent films, all of which are now lost, mainly due to the 1937 fox vault fire. surratt wrote beauty advice columns, did ad spots, and had control over of the productions she starred in. she controlled her vamp image and became known as “the empress of shopping” due to her eccentric taste in clothing. 

[terrence-silver]

Started rewatching Karate Kid III, but got distracted and started watching an old western with Lon Chaney(Jr.), thought of the original Phantom of the Opera🖤, promptly went down the rabbit hole of filmography for Chaney Sr., and I realized so, SO many movies from 1910-1920 are just lost?? It broke my heart a bit, even though they were most likely very short silent films.

But! I learned that the wealthy would sometimes buy the film reel (if not the only film reel of a film.. ever) and add it to their own ✨️private collection✨️. Anyways, can you imagine how romantic of a date that would be with Terry? Watching some old, old movies, that have probably been exclusive to his family alone for years. Getting to indulge in champagne and sweets, cuddled up to 6 foot 5 man, as some poor sap has to crank the ole projector. Maybe manipulating beloved to feel exclusive in his life, or.. maybe he's sincere in trying to make beloved feel special🤭

---

I always felt a date with Terry Silver in any era would have this...slightly surreal quality.

Because, yeah, consider it; he owns so many antiques. So many rare weapons. So many vintage wines. So many cars. So many things you can only ever acquire if you're in possession of an exuberant amount of money and some questionable connections, like in the case of his old Rembrandt that was thought lost for ages or the fact that he lived in a mansion resembling a Mayan Temple (that is thought to be haunted according to urban legend), that it is a bit like entering a world of it's own entirely, or hey, to keep with the topic of this ask, even the movies this man watches, they aren't movies anyone else watches or can watch. Why? Because they're forgotten films only a sinfully rich collector like himself could get their hands on from all sorts of unlikely sources, meaning that you're literally seeing something...you've never seen before. And he might even highlight that, entirely proud of himself.

-"Now,"- He begins, slapping his hands together in contentment followed by a smile as a silent assistant handling the delicate material with gloved hands inside of his home theatre cranks that projector and the reel lights up the hall, flickering. -"I'll bet you've never seen anything like this."-

And you've indeed never seen any of the lost French documentaries of Georges Méliès between 1895-96, Japanese movies thought to have disappeared during WWII, any of the flicks on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list, Andy Worhol's first ever film, Theda Bara's Cleopatra, the complete works of Valeska Suratt, flicks Terry swears were discovered in a salt mine somewhere, the first ever 'talkies', prints thought destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire, London After Midnight, The First Men in The Moon from 1919 or goodness gracious, even some exceptionally rare erotica scraped up from the bottom of some forgotten archive somewhere because nobody else has seen any of them either in over a century. You're sipping a wine older than you are, you've just got the exclusive tour of his collection of centuries old weapons and now you're watching a movie human eyes haven't seen in over a hundred years. It is an intense experience. In fact, it's an experience that resembles a dream that is pretty difficult to explain even to your own self, which is not to say the experience would be bad, it would simply be...downright phantasmagorical. It might immediately hit you that Terry Silver is quite literally like no man you've ever met before, because no man you've ever met before has done any of this.

Or hey, since you've mentioned it, a movie exclusive to his family alone?

Why the heck not!

What if he's in possession of some short film reels or photographic clips he took in Vietnam? Hey, not all that unbelievable. Maybe you see some of familiar faces immortalized, like a young Kreese, some scrawny, curly haired kid mingling around or hey, who's that guy with the ponytail!? Goodness, is that a young Terry? If we want to go full-on creepy, he might just hum and confirm, saying yes, because who else could it possibly be? What if he owns some rather unsavory military movies he recorded; images of the dead kept like trophies. Interrogations. Torture. These things can go as far as imagination allows, or a brighter note, what if, say, his mother was an actress --- not a famous one, but someone who pumped out like one or two smaller projects in, for example, the 30's Silent era Hollywood before she got married and had him and those copies stayed in his family ever since because his father was staunch and very meticulous on who owns moving pictures containing his wife. Bought all the copies off of George Cukor for a smaller fortune back in the days, at the height of the Great Depression, no less.

-"Who is that?"- You may ask, cuddled up to him, struck with an odd familiarity following the woman on the screen. You shiver for reasons you cannot quite explain other than the fact that watching something so old can naturally give someone the occasionally eerie sensation. She vaguely reminds you of someone. -"My mother."- He could answer.

Whatever the case, whatever the scenario one deems most likely of these, or any others totally unrelated one might come up with, one thing is perfectly clear and that's that said movie evening isn't something that is easily forgotten, if ever.

[weirdlookindog]

‟Sneering at Satan by Valeska Suratt″

Picture-Play Magazine Vol.4 #6, August 1916

source

[chronivore]

Publicity Still of Valeska Suratt as Zena, the temptress, in the 1917 silent drama film The New York Peacock (Fox Films)

[ronnymerchant]

Valeska Suratt-who played the title character in SHE (1917)

[hesperidewatching]

new emo violence: Valeska Suratt

favorite song rn: ephemeral

[revilermpls]

Photos: Caydence Fest 4, Night 1

Caydence Fest 4with Habak, In Lieu, Valeska Suratt, Not Yet All Things, Eudaemon and I Owe This Land A BodyAmerican Legion Basement Venue, St. Paul, MNSeptember 13th, 2024

[anotherwaytogetold]

Valeska Suratt as Ayesha in She (1917) - lost film.

[thedabara]

ACTRESSES WHO DIED 1962

Marilyn Monroe at 36 from barbiturate overdose

Lily Elsie at 76 from heart failure

Raquel Meller at 74 from heart attack

Suzanne Marwille at 66 from unknown events

Xenia Desni at 68 from unknown events

Sybille Binder at 67 from unknown events

Valeska Suratt at 80 from heart failure

Dolly Davis at 66 from surgery

Erna Morena at 77 from heart attack

Vera Reynolds at 62 from unknown events

[weirdlookindog]

Valeska Suratt, 1916

[awidevastdominion]

Valeska Suratt, 1920.