Too Beautiful for Hollywood: Silent Screen Siren Barbara La Marr - Old Town Music Hall Program - Sunday, July 30, 2:30 p.m. By Sherri Snyder Biographer, Actress, Model
El Segundo --- On Sunday, July 30, the historic Old Town Music Hall, located at 140 Richmond Street, presents a program on Barbara La Marr, a leading actress of the silent screen and one of the most iconic figures of the 1920s. A legend in her time, Barbara led an astonishing life described by newspapers of the day as "a wilder story than she ever helped to film." Sherri Snyder, actress, writer, and author of Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood, portrays Barbara in a self-authored performance piece, then presents a slideshow lecture about her, detailing her oftentimes scandalous life from her humble beginnings to her tragic death at age twenty-nine in 1926. Barbara's banishment from Los Angeles at age seventeen for being "too beautiful"; her notable careers as a dancer, a vaudevillian, a screenwriter, and an actress; her impact upon cinematic history; and her fierce determination to forge her own destiny amid the constant threat of losing it all to scandal and, ultimately, death will be spotlighted. The program, beginning at 2:30 p.m. and roughly an hour and forty-five minutes long, will also feature clips from some of Barbara's films, musical accompaniment by Pete Evelund, and a question-and-answer session. Tickets are $20 per person.
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The Old Town Music Hall, an El Segundo cultural landmark since the 1960s, hosts concerts, classic films, silent films accompanied by live music, and various other programs.
* Title image (circa 1924) and book: Barbara La Marr, dubbed "the girl who was too beautiful" after juvenile authorities ordered her back to her parents' home in El Centro, California, at age seventeen in 1914 on the grounds that she was too beautiful to remain in Los Angeles unsupervised.
Los Angeles-based actress and writer Sherri Snyder is the author of Barbara La Marr: The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful for Hollywood, published by the University Press of Kentucky (https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813174259/barbara-la-marr/#.WZxfec-pUdm) and also available on Amazon and elsewhere; she regularly portrays Barbara in a one-woman performance piece she wrote for the Pasadena Playhouse and Pasadena Museum of History production, Channeling Hollywood; and she maintains the tribute website, www.barbaralamarr.net.
