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Musidora was the star
of Louis Feuillade's 1915
silent film LES VAMPIRES.

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She was one of the greatest stars of the French silent cinema, Musidora began her life as Jeanne Roques in Paris, February 23, 1889. Brought up by a feminist mother, Musidora wrote her first novel at age fifteen. She gained fame playing France's first screen vamp, Irma Vep (an anagram of "vampire") in Louis Feuillade's 1915-16 film series, Les Vampires. She played its femme fatale with great aplomb, appearing in each of its ten semi-independent episodes in a different disguise, both male and female. But Musidora was more than a film actress, she was a novelist, poet, dancer painter, songwriter and playwright. Yet there is very little historical attention to Musidora's off-screen film roles, despite the fact that she became a film director at a time when very few women had such opportunities. At her death in 1957, she left behind seven unpublished screenplays and several films that she directed or co-directed.





LES VAMPIRES 1915 Crime / Thriller
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Les Vampires (1915)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0006206/



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Louis Feuillade
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~From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Feuillade

Louis Feuillade (February 19, 1873 – February 25, 1925) was a French film director from the silent era.

He was born in Lunel, Hrault, in southern France. Originally a wine merchant and journalist, Feuillade began his film career at Gaumont in 1905.

He directed several hundred short and serial films from 1906 to 1924. His most important works include three convoluted serial thrillers, Fantomas (1913), Les Vampires (1915), and Judex (1916).

He is credited with developing many of the thriller techniques used famously by Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, and others.


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IRMA VEP
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_Vep


"Les Vampires' is one of France's great classic contributions to the world of popular cinema..."
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~Confetta
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