Musidora Archives

The show also pays tribute to Musidora, the original stage actress who played Irma Vep, and her place in French and Cinema history, giving a context to the story that the 1996 movie didn't get to do There's an added layer in the scenes that recreate incidents from Musidora's memoirs where she recounts the making[...]

Irma Vep, whose name is an anagram of "vampire", was one of the figureheads of the Vampires, a deadly thief and assassin in a black catsuit played by Musidora and one of the first femmes fatale in movie history The character is a precursor to women in catsuits in genre fiction including Catwoman. Still from "Irma[...]