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F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre has participated in the production of a new movie, The Woman with the Hungry Eyes: The Life and Films of Theda Bara." This documentary about silent-film actress Theda Bara was executive-produced by Hugh Hefner for Turner Cable, and directed by Hugh Munro Neely. MacIntyre's contribution to the film includes the previously unpublished text of his interview with late SFWA Grand Master Fritz Leiber, in which Leiber reveals his boyhood encounter with actress Bara.
In 1979, when Fritz Leiber was Guest of Honor at SeaCon in Brighton, England, MacIntyre interviewed Leiber about his early life and the career of his father (Fritz Leiber, Sr.), a prominent Shakespearean actor. Among other reminiscences, author Leiber (Jr.) described a memorable occasion when he met Theda Bara on the set of her film "Cleopatra," in which Leiber Senior was cast as Julius Caesar.
MacIntyre donated the text of this interview to Timeline Films for use in their documentary on Bara. Among MacIntyre's other contributions to the film, he provided its title: The Woman with the Hungry Eyes, inspired by Fritz Leiber's fantasy story "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes." In the finished film, Leiber's text from his interview with MacIntyre is narrated by actor Rom Watson.
A rough cut of The Woman with the Hungry Eyes premiered in Los Angeles in October 2005. The final cut, with a special credit for F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, was premiered in May 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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