{"id":12415,"date":"2025-11-07T17:20:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=12415"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:20:36","slug":"walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-carmen-and-geraldine-farrar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/07\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-carmen-and-geraldine-farrar\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movie Adventures: Carmen and Geraldine Farrar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-1.jpg\" alt=\"Geraldine Farrar and Wallace Reid in Carmen\" class=\"wp-image-12417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:152,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.tumblr.com\\\/newyorkthegoldenage\\\/188156428514\\\/gerry-and-the-gerryflappers&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-2.jpg\" alt=\"Geraldine Farrar in a fight in Carmen\" class=\"wp-image-12418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s something funny about making a silent movie based on an opera&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/geraldine-farrar.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Geraldine Farrar's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the right, a black and white portrait photo of Geraldine Farrar.\" class=\"wp-image-12419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/geraldine-farrar.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/geraldine-farrar-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/geraldine-farrar-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;and it&#8217;s funnier when you cast an opera singer as the lead. That&#8217;s a little unfair: Geraldine Farrar (1620 Vine Street) was popular enough to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/newyorkthegoldenage\/188156428514\/gerry-and-the-gerryflappers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her own version of Swifties<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s poster is based on a different staged music production that was made into a movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Carmen mimicking the poster for Cabaret.\" class=\"wp-image-12416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/carmen.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera as it was mean to be presented: as a silent movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-12415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-fake-posters","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12420,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415\/revisions\/12420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}