I really do need to do a Complete Filmography for her now, but I thought I'd share this find as I don't have time right now.
Roger S. wrote me and said he did a search of the FIAF database and there were more Barbara LaMarr films than thought in the 1990s. The FIAF database does not say to what extent or condition they exist, but does include where. Below is what Roger compiled (newly found films are in red):
THE NUT (1921) - multiple sources
THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1921) - multiple sources
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1922) - George Eastman House; Gosfilmofond of Russia; Lobster Films (Paris)
SOULS FOR SALE (1923) - Museum of Modern Art (New York)
THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE (1923) - Gosfilmofond of Russia (format unspecified)
THY NAME IS WOMAN (1924) - George Eastman House (format unspecified)
THE SHOOTING OF DAN McGREW (1924) - Gosfilmofond of Russia (format unspecified)
THE WHITE MOTH (1924) - Gosfilmofond of Russia (format unspecified); Library of Congress (35 mm); Museum of Modern Art (New York) (format unspecified)
THE HEART OF A SIREN (1925) - George Eastman House (format unspecified); UCLA Film and Television Archive (16 mm; 35 mm nitrate positive); Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) (16 mm)
THE WHITE MONKEY (1925) - Library of Congress (35 mm); Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (Madison) (format unspecified)
THE GIRL FROM MONTMARTRE (1926) - George Eastman House (format unspecified); UCLA Film and Television archive (35 mm nitrate positive)
That's 4 new films, including her 2 final appearances and it looks like a solid mix of vamp and non vamp. See this is why we need more film archives to go online or at least assess their inventory. In a lot of archives they just don't have the funds, so things sit rotting. When Olive Thomas' 10 new films were found, none were on safety print. Even more alarming I think a few are still on nitrate only. The damndest things do turn up sometimes, like Beyond the Rocks in 2004. Or the 'discoveries' of the New Zealand archives...which were about 75 thought to be lost films...which weren't lost as they were already sitting in an archive...but no one knew.
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The darndest things DO turn up, sometimes one after another within the last decade these came to light:
Sorrel and Son (a terrible print but at least it exists)
Beyond the Rocks and Bardleys The Magnificent - both from the Netherlands and found almost one after another
Metropolis- found in 2008, on disc in 2010- that is QUICK!
Now if only they could discover "Cleopatra" and "Ben Hur" all would be well
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