Silent Movie: Haiku: Bets

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Haiku: Bets - ©Theda Bara

Haiku and Art by ©Theda Bara — 2025

Don’t risk your life for nonsense

Don’t give up on your dreams

Because just like in a casino, you will always lose!

Robert Redford died today at the age of 89.
I will pay my respects to the actor next friday, the 19th.

15 comments:

J.P. AlexanderSeptember 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Uno siempre debe apostar por sus sueños. Te mando un beso.
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Ирина ПолещенкоSeptember 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I am so sorry!
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Jornalista Douglas MeloSeptember 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
My friend Theodosia,
Another very good haiku, where you play with words magnificently.
Regarding Robert Redford, I'll await your publication, which will pay a fitting tribute to this cinema icon.
Kisses!!!
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LA COCINERA DE BÉTULOSeptember 17, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Un gran actor.
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olgaSeptember 17, 2025 at 6:26 AM
E' morta un'icona del cinema mondiale!
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EsterSeptember 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Un actor que nos dio momentos geniales DEP. El haiku precioso.
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neuriwomanSeptember 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Nos ha dejado un gran actor que marcó nuestras vidas con sus innumerables películas. Saludos
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ellieSeptember 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Oh, so true! Thank you!
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Caitlin'nMeganSeptember 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Something you need to remind yourself, from time to time.
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Tomás BSeptember 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Que gran verdad nos dejas en estos versos, porque como dicen "la banca siempre gana".

Saludos.
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Nuria de EspinosaSeptember 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Profundos. Un placer como siempre. Besitos
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🌺 Hada de las Rosas 🌺September 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Oh, im sorry. Rest in peace, magnificent Mr. Robert Redford.
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AnankaSeptember 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Great words. And RIP Robert Redford a great actor :-D
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Lucimar da Silva MoreiraSeptember 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Jogo não leva a lugar nenhum, triste a morte desse grande ator, bjs.
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Mário MargarideSeptember 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Olá, amiga Theda.
Belo e verdadeiro texto. Saudade, em relação a Robert Redford, que nos deixou...
Deixo os votos de um bom fim de semana.
Beijinhos, com carinho e amizade.

Mário Margaride

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· 🎬 ©Theda Bara - Silent Movie - Haiku

㋡ Haiku is a poetic form divided into three sentences of: five, seven and five syllables. This short poem of Japanese origin, was created in the 16th century and ended up becoming popular all over the world. The word HAIKU [俳句] is formed by two terms: [hai] (play, ludic) and [ku] (harmony, achievement). That is, it represents a poem of happiness and absence of conflict, and that's how I write, with joy and without getting attached to metrics. ༺⚜༻ August 19th is Haiku Day in Japan due to goroawase (numerical pun). 8 in Japanese is [hachi]➚HA; 1 is [ichi]➚I; 9 is [kyu]➚KU. And on April 17th, many people celebrate International Haiku Day.

· 🎬 The origin of my name

· 🎥 My dear paternal grandfather, Jonathan Jon Goodman (descendant of the Goodmans, from actress Theda Bara's father), in addition to being very wise, was a visionary man, because from a very young age, as soon as silent films appeared, he acquired some old theater rooms transforming them in (street) movie theater in Los Angeles, California, United States. My family has been involved in cinematic entertainment for decades and today we still have movie theaters in large shopping malls. This love for the seventh art motivated my father, who has the name Goodman in the genealogy of his ancestors, and my mother, a fan of Theda Bara, to baptize me with the name of this great silent film actress Theodosia, a name that comes from Greek culture and means: “gift from God”. I really like my name and I love old films, whether silent or not.

🎬 Flicker Flashbacks: from 1943 to 1948

🎥 Theda Bara acted in episodes (2 and 5) of the television series shown on American TV: “Flicker Flashbacks” from 1947, alongside Lionel Barrymore, directed by Richard Fleischer. Other big Hollywood stars also starred in the series: Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Lon Chaney, Lillian Gish, D. W. Griffith, Harry Carey, Mabel Normand, Mae Marsh, Francis X. Bushman, Harry von Zell, Minta Durfee, Wallace Reid, Ann Little, Henry B. Walthall, Maurice Costello, Agnes Ayres, Owen Moore, Blanche Sweet, Claire McDowell, Nigel De Brulier, Robert Harron, Florence Turner, Christy Cabanne, Linda Arvidson, Marion Leonard, Harold Lockwood, Knox Manning, Arthur V. Johnson, Charles K. French, Harry Solter, George Nichols, Charles Hill Mailes, Ethel Grandin, James Kirkwood, Carol Holloway, Joseph Graybill, David Miles, Charles Inslee, Walter Miller, Charles West, Ed Brady and illusionist magician Harry Houdini.

🎬 Hollywood: The Golden Years: 1961

🎥 “Hollywood: The Golden Years”, is a silent documentary shown on American TV, directed by David L. Wolper, which reports on the lives of: Thomas Edison, Gary Cooper, Gene Kelly, Buster Keaton, Greta Garbo, Lionel Barrymore, Will Rogers, Clara Bow, Carole Lombard, Tom Mix, Mary Pickford, Jackie Coogan, John Barrymore, Al Jolson, Gloria Swanson, Lon Chaney, Dolores del Río, Roscoe Arbuckle, Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor, Norma Shearer, D. W. Griffith , Sessue Hayakawa, Marion Davies, John Gilbert, H. B. Warner, Ronald Colman, Wallace Beery, Pearl White, Dolores Costello, Edna Purviance, Mabel Normand, Eugene Pallette, Marie Dressler, Antonio Moreno, Mae Marsh, Ben Turpin, Mack Sennett, Florence Lawrence, William S. Hart, Francis X. Bushman, Renée Adorée, Richard Barthelmess, Vilma Bánky, Mae Murray, Wallace Reid, Henry B. Walthall, Billy Bevan, Montagu Love & Theda Bara.

🎬 The Love Goddesses: 1965

🎥 “The Love Goddesses”, is a silent documentary shown on American TV, directed by Saul Turell, which tells the lives of: Shirley Temple, Ingrid Bergman, Clara Bow, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow, Rita Hayworth, Lillian Gish, Brigitte Bardot, Barbara Stanwyck, Louise Brooks, Marilyn Monroe, Agnes Ayres, Claudette Colbert, Richard Barthelmess, Clive Brook, Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Swanson, Horst Buchholz, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Ava Gardner, Jeanette MacDonald, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Laurence Harvey, Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Myrna Loy, Gary Cooper, Hedy Lamarr, Jayne Mansfield, Montgomery Clift, Anita Ekberg, Gina Lollobrigida, Mae Marsh, Sessue Hayakawa, Carole Lombard, Maurice Chevalier , John Gilbert, Emil Jannings, Ruby Keeler, Annette Kellerman, Lya de Putti, Louise Glaum, Mae West, Hayley Mills, Mae Murray & Theda Bara.

🎬 The Woman with the Hungry Eyes: 2006

🎥 In October 2005, TimeLine Films awarded the biographical documentary: “The Woman with the Hungry Eyes”, released in early 2006, directed by Hugh Munro Neely. The film chronicles the life of cinema's first femme fatale, the vampire Theda Bara, from her Jewish childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, to her happy retirement in Hollywood. Theda was a brilliant silent movie actress married to renowned filmmaker Charles Brabin and made more than 40 films for Fox Entertainment Group Inc., only six of which still exist.

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Haiku: Bets - ©Theda Bara

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