FAITH BACON "lady with the Fans" Soundie 1942

[@docsmithdc]

I was prepared to be disappointed-but this was a very beautiful woman who could dance.RIP.

[@OofusTwillip]

Those huge fans are surprisingly heavy. I used to perform in neo-burlesque, and a fellow performer let my try out her fans. You really need muscles to work them so gracefully.

[@kenpudsey6435]

What a sad story,she was a beautiful talented girl!

[@lenafan492]

Thank you vitajazz for the Faith Bacon videos. They are great quality

[@dancinman17]

The One and Only---still looking and dancing beautifully after creating this dance in Earl Carroll's Vanities on Broadway in 1928!! SORRY SALLY---maybe we will give you the "Bubble Dance"/// My love of Faith Bacon is widely known, and I own a major collection of portraits of her from the Great American Revue!! PEACE!

[@TheReeveOfMontClare]

I was at her grave just three hours to this reply. She rests at Wunder Cemetery in Chicago. Someone is leaving flowers there for her. Odd as she had no family as I understand.

[@bajaboyextra]

Ten years past her prime, in 1942 she was flat broke. She went to Chicago hoping she was still famous for her Chicago World Fair performance. She couldn't find work and decided to end it all. She was alive for only a few hours after her fatal plunge from a 2nd story hotel window. She had been staying with sympathetic young women who tried to stop her. The papers reported that a "stripper" had committed suicide. She had been known as the "most beautiful dancer in the world." Her smile seems sad in this soundie.

[@rshnrvrrbrt]

a very sad story for a talented dancer.

[@doctorbohr1585]

The most obscure of all the doomed starlets 😔

[@davidgiardina5424]

Really beautiful

[@misterwhitman4368]

This video has renewed my FAITH in BACON!

[@richardturner6981]

She's absolutely Beautiful! She's a goddess! A golden haired goddess!

[@chrisking3849]

wow so perfect!

[@ericroberts1084]

Credits to the lighting tech, cameraman and editor. Music is extraneous.

[@lblake5653]

Classic!

[@VictrolaJazz]

A friend used to have a Mills Studio with many of those films from that era!

[@zeframmann1641]

What an angel.

[@cultivandoflores3990]

Lindo! Esse tipo de dança eram executadas por algumas mulheres dos cabarés franceses(folies Bergère, moulin rouge...) apesar da nudez, não havia vulgaridade, somente beleza! As mulheres mais procuradas tinham os cabelos bem curtinhos, pois usavam geralmente perucas, corselettes, meias pretas, cintas ligas e muita plumagem, perfumes, maquiagem! Apesar de todo o glamour, nos bastidores só tristeza e exploração de jovens! Essas meninas não tinham escolha! Linda Faith Bacon!

[@bigbob1699]

Think of all the poor naked ostriches .

[@chrimar5193]

How elaborate 😮 ... better than Md's Frozen - in a way

[@shannonsmith1520]

♥️♥️♥️

[@vmat1000]

Beautiful through out but 2:27 is incredible.

[@systaley3824]

This is like my great grandmothers aunt or something...my family all have the same mouths.

[@peter455sd]

Not bad,not bad at all...

[@doctorbohr1585]

The cinematographer wasn't too shabby either.

[@rinaticson390]

What a terrible ending of her life

[@ericroberts1084]

Looks as if it was shot with a single camera. (Close-ups don't synch with the wide shots). Pretty brave for 1942. She regarded her work as Art, adding surrealist touches as in the film above. She said that she would only dance completely nude if everyone in the audience was an artist and could see the beauty of such a performance. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKnVk6Ghg9J5fac

[@antoniomoronic2075]

does anyone know the name of the music?

[@babarbabar9406]

She commited suicide, such a sad ending.

[@KrisannaMarie]

babar babar pretty sure she suffered from mental illness 😕

[@michaelgaynor6866]

@@KrisannaMarie ,No!!! She was a Herion addict!

[@gerard1657]

@@michaelgaynor6866 It's spelled 'heroin', and how do you know she was an addict???

[@pauline9580]

@@michaelgaynor6866 no you are incorrect she died jumping out of a window actually.. Read the feuding fan dancers.

[@TheReeveOfMontClare]

@@pauline9580 She did suffer from depression and alcoholism. Her death was a suicide by jump

[@jonkidd6151]

Such a stunning voluptuous alluring shapely goddess!❤