“We were all as blind as bats. Theda Bara couldn’t see a foo..
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“We were all as blind as bats. Theda Bara couldn’t see a foot ahead of her and poor Rudy [Valentino] groped his way through many a love scene, and I really mean groped. They all used big reflectors to get extra light from the sun — that’s how we acquired that interesting Oriental look. We didn’t have any censors in those days, but we did have our own bosoms and our own eyelashes . . . and we never took ourselves seriously.” —Nita Naldi
