#acquanetta

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Propaganda

Acquanetta (Arabian Nights, Jungle Woman, The Sword of Monte Cristo)—i just think naming yourself 'acquanetta' is a banger move

Jean Seberg (Breathless, Saint Joan)— Some of us watched À bout de souffle as a lil French undergrad and had the trajectory of our lives changed by Jean Seberg. She IS French new wave!! She is the moment!! She sadly had to work with a lot of shitty directors in her career but even so, she has this magnetic energy whenever she’s on screen. In her personal life, she was also very supportive of civil rights causes, and was even targeted/harassed by the FBI for financially supporting the Black Panther Party.

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Jean Seberg:

anyone who plays Joan of Arc is kind of hot by default tbh

she's gorgeous, she's cool, she has the original blond pixie cut

She donated a lot of her money to civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and the black panther party as well as Native American school groups, as a result of this the fbi ran a smear campaign against her and a surveillance campaign which is thought to have led to her suicide tragically.

idk if this is propaganda but the COINTELPRO and the FBI are widely blamed for her death. If the FBI was after her for supporting the Black Panther Party you know she was good

Acquanetta propaganda:

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Portrait of Acquanetta, star of such 1940s horror films as Captive Wild Woman, Jungle Woman, and Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, photographed in the mid 1940's.

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Misconceptions:

You know it occurs to me that in today's world Boris Karloff would as a quarter Indian biracial actor probably be called woke casting? Not that this is a widely known fact. But in regards to him playing such roles as Jekyll and Hyde, Mycroft Holmes and nearly Cagliostro and Bluebeard. Don't believe me? Look at the reaction to actor Rupert Laight as Isaac Newton in Dr Who. Even in some more left-wing circles. It's coming to something when an ethnic actor gets less grief for such casting in the early twentieth century than one in the modern age?

I've also seen him wrongly described as a white actor doing yellow face as Fu Manchu. Not that such portrayals were ever forgivable of course. But another example of the fact that people are quite ignorant of racially mixed actors having had a presence in the history of media. Just look up the name Acquanetta as another example. See image below.

Just a few short words I wanted to get off my chest on the matter. (-;

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Lon Chaney Jr. and Acquanetta for Dead Man’s Eyes, 1944

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Jungle Woman (1944)

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Acquanetta (1945)

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CAPTIVE WILD WOMEN (Edward Dmytryk, 1943)

Starring John Carradine and Acquanetta

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Captive Wild Woman (1943) Edward Dmytryk

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Dead Man's Eyes (1944)

"I wouldn't be surprised if this man were insane. He wouldn't be the first one who'd gone mad studying the processes of the mind."

"Precisely, Captain. I compliment you on your sagacity."

"You know, it's people like you that have caused me to steer clear of all this book psychology."

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This is the "square" version of a photomontage that I created for We Belong Dead magazine a while back.

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Acquanetta

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Acquanetta as the Gorilla Girl

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Lon Chaney Jr. and Acquanetta in Dead Man's Eyes (1944)

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Acquanetta (The Venezuelan Volcano), actrice américaine - 1943

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Born on this day: enigmatic b-movie actress Acquanetta (aka Mildred Davenport, 17 July 1921 – 16 August 2004), who specialized in “jungle girl” roles. Inevitably described as “exotic”, Acquanetta’s origins and ethnicity were shrouded in mystery. As a starlet at Universal Studios in the forties, Acquanetta was publicized as the “Venezuelan Volcano.” Some accounts claimed she was native American. Today, Acquanetta is widely assumed to have been African American. Perhaps she fabricated her heritage to avoid being typecast as maids? Not that the alternative was much better. Acquanetta is best remembered for two kitschy horror films in which she portrays a savage ape transformed into human female form by a mad scientist (played – inevitably! - by character actor John Carradine): Captive Wild Woman (1943) and Jungle Woman (1944). As tasteless, demeaning and racist as this synopsis sounds, the exquisite Acquanetta rises above the material to invest the role in Captive Wild Woman (the one I’ve seen) with a dignified and ethereal inscrutability. When Acquanetta died aged 83, she took her secrets to the grave.

Acquanetta in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)