Throughout many years of stage and screen performances of theCamilletale, the heroine had been played by various leading ladies on the screen, including Oda Alstrup (1907), Gertrude Shipman (1912), Sarah Bernhardt (1912), Clara Kimball Young (1915), Theda Bara (1917), Alla Nazimova (in a 1921 film with Rudolph Valentino), Norma Talmadge (1927), Yvonne Printemps (1934 in a French production), and others on the stage including Eleanora Duse (a debut performance in 1893), Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Barrymore, and Eva Le Gallienne.The participants, unconventional dancers and singers (all Transylvanians) of all races and sizes, with outrageous party hats and wild hair styles, wore black suits with bulky dark sunglasses.Both shared credit for the film""s direction although Robbins was removed after a few months due to schedule delays, the over-budget production, disagreements with Wise over the film""s degree of faithfulness o the stage production, and Robbins"" potentially-expensive demands for perfection.He loaded his gun with a hollow-pointed bullet and held the barrel against his head and in his mouth in a deadly game of Russian roulette - ready to pull the trigger." The words of his name were an anagram for "I AM LORD VOLDEMORT" and he planned to be "the greatest sorcerer in the world.