Leonard Miscall News Today

…Continued from Part I. Visit Ithaca.com to read the prior installment. Theda Bara, the world’s first international movie sex symbol, came to upstate Ithaca, New York, in 1919 to shoot a big-budget silent movie. During the summer of 1919, at the end of the last great pandemic, Bara filmed parts of the feature romance “Kathleen Mavourneen” (1919) for the William Fox studio. Bara’s presence in town made an indelible impression on Ithaca and on Ithacans. LOCAL ACTOR REMEMBERE...