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Calamity Anne's Vanity is a 1913 American silent short Western film directed by Allan Dwan. It stars Louise Lester as Calamity Anne , with J. Warren Kerrigan and Charlotte Burton . [ 1 ] It was one of fifteen short films in which Lester played a lovable cowgirl character.
Lester created the Calamity Anne character and was dramatist for the series. [5] She starred as Calamity Anne in a series of fifteen short films based around the character, playing the lead role in films such as Calamity Anne's Inheritance, Calamity Anne's Vanity, Calamity Anne's Beauty, and Calamity Anne, Heroine – all in 1913.
Martha Jane Canary (May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, sharpshooter, and storyteller. [2] [3] [4] In addition to many exploits, she was known for being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok.
Damon Runyon, in his short story The Brain Goes Home has the narrator remark, "Well, Mr. Earl Carroll feels sorry for Cynthia, so he puts her in the 'Vanities' and lets her walk around raw, and The Brain sees her, and the next thing anybody knows she is riding in a big foreign automobile the size of a rum chaser, and is chucking a terrible swell."
Charles Allan Gilbert (September 3, 1873 – April 20, 1929), better known as C. Allan Gilbert, was an American illustrator.He is especially remembered for a widely published drawing (a memento mori or vanitas) titled All Is Vanity.
Vanitas by Antonio de Pereda. Vanitas (Latin for 'vanity', in this context meaning pointlessness, or futility, not to be confused with the other definition of vanity) is a genre of memento mori symbolizing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly desires.
Calamity James, a British comic book character from The Beano; Calamity Jane, a 1953 film based on the person; Calamity Town, a 1942 novel by Ellery Queen; The Calamity, a central plot point for the 2011 video game Bastion; Calamity, a mod for the 2011 video game Terraria "Calamity", a song by Zayn from his 2021 album Nobody Is Listening
In 1923, the Vanities joined the ranks of New York's other popular revues: The Greenwich Village Follies, George White's Scandals, and The Ziegfeld Follies.At a time when Florenz Ziegfeld was hailed as "The Great Glorifier of the American Girl," Carroll bragged that "the most beautiful girls in the world" passed through the stage door of his theatre.