 (1894 - 1970) was a silent screen
vamp who made nearly 100 movies and shorts between 1912 and 1925
Called "The Spider Woman" or "The Tiger Woman" as one of silent
screen's most infamous and exotic vamps.
A dark-haired, melodramatic actress from the stage, Louise Glaum
spent almost her entire screen career under the management of
producer Thomas H. Ince, who cast her as femme fatales several years
before the emergence of Theda Bara. Glaum found her greatest success
opposite Western star William S. Hart, with whom she did six films
altogether, including the seminal Hell's Hinges (1916). She plays
the saloon belle who seduces Hart's nemesis, a fire-and-brimstone
preacher of the most hypocritical sort. Glaum would play variations
of that role for the remainder of her career, almost always paying
for her sins in the end. A classic example of Glaum's ill-fated
vamps is the still extant and very provocatively titled Sex (1920). |
