Silent screen actress Barbara La Marr was a legend in her time, leading an astounding, oftentimes scandalous life described by newspapers of the day as “a wilder story than she ever helped to film.” Join me, Sherri Snyder, at the 125-year-old Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Sunday, October 13 as I once again portray Barbara in a one-woman performance piece that I wrote about her. Barbara’s banishment from Los Angeles at age seventeen for being “too beautiful”; her notable careers as an actress, a dancer, a vaudevillian, and a screenwriter; her tragic death at age twenty-nine in 1926; and more will be spotlighted.
My performance is part of the Los Angeles Art Deco Society’s 41st Hollywood Forever Cemetery walking tour. Also featured on the tour are the stories—told by performers and historians—of silent film god Rudolph Valentino, matinee idol Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actress and William Randolph Hearst mistress Marion Davies, filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, slain director William Desmond Taylor, glamour ghoul Vampira, and around twenty other Old Hollywood luminaries and Los Angeles pioneers interred at Hollywood Forever.
In addition to portraying Barbara on the tour for many years, I now have the honor of producing it.
Click here for tickets and additional details. This event typically sells out.
(Photo: [left to right] Barbara in 1925 and me as Barbara.)
