Theda Bara
Birthday: 1885-07-28
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the most popular actresses of the silent era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname The Vamp (short for vampire). Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most are now lost because the 1937 Fox vault fire destroyed most of her films. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and retired from acting in 1926, having never appeared in a sound film. Bara died of stomach cancer in 1955 at the age of 69.
Movies
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen, the daughter of a poor tenant farmer, dreams of her wedding with her beloved Terrence. The...
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The Devil's Daughter
When her lover deserts her, Gioconda Dianti seeks revenge by wrecking the lives of other men. When f...
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Lady Audley's Secret
Florid melodrama of misunderstandings, betrayal and desperation as Theda schemes to keep the title s...
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The Two Orphans
This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. Th...
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The Clemenceau Case
This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no o...
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Gold and the Woman
The daughter of a Mexican aristocrat endures the travails of the Mexican revolution....
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La belle Russe
In this film, her next-to-last picture for Fox, it was Theda Bara's turn to tackle a double role. Ba...
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Her Double Life
Mary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the fat...
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The Tiger Woman
Theda Bara's vamping is at its most evil here. She plays the Russian Princess Petrovitch, who loves ...
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Her Greatest Love
Vere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord...
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Heart and Soul
Desperate to change her vixenish image, Theda Bara was called upon to play a sweet young thing (she ...
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Camille
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval....
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The Forbidden Path
Mary Lynde (Theda Bara) is an innocent girl who has grown up in New York's Greenwich Village. One of...
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The Light
Theda Bara does her usual vamp turn in this picture, but this time she's a vamp who turns out to hav...
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Lure of Ambition
Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of dec...
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A Fool There Was
John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfort...
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Cleopatra
The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the great...
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in p...
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Salome
Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of K...
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The Unchastened Woman
When she goes to tell her husband Hubert that she is expecting a child, Caroline Knollys finds him i...
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East Lynne
An adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady Isabe...
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Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud betw...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (192...
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The Darling of Paris
This film is a very loose film adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hu...
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The She Devil
Lolette an exotic and spirited peasant girl lives In the small Spanish village of Juanguera . Althou...
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The Eternal Sapho
A scheme by a beautiful vamp to marry a wealthy young man fails, and the woman returns to her former...
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A Woman There Was
Theda Bara plays Princess Zara, who lives on a South Sea Island. A handsome young missionary (Willia...
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The Vixen
In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummon...
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Madame Mystery
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts ...
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Carmen
A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her l...
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The Siren's Song
Marie Bernais, a Breton village girl, possesses a wonderful voice which her father believes is a gif...
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When Men Desire
A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover....
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The Film Parade
Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the mo...
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When a Woman Sins
Lilian is engaged to an older man in poor health when she meets his son Michael, whom she falls for....
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The Rose Of Blood
Lisza Tapenko (Bara) is governess in the household of Prince Arbasoff (Charles Clary). After the dea...
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Under the Yoke
As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez...
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Madame du Barry
After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well...
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Destruction
Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies bef...
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Under Two Flags
The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is...
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The Movies March On
A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of sile...
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The Stain
An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed ...
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Sin
Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America....
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The Soul of Buddha
Theda Bara plays a Javanese priestess who elopes with an English military officer (Hugh Thompson). ...
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The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
The true story of the life of the movies first femme-fatale, Theda Bara, who made over 40 films, onl...
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The Serpent
Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London....
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The Galley Slave
Francesca Brabaut, who married an artist against her father's advice, regrets her decision when her ...
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Kreutzer Sonata
Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather be...
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