Theda Bara
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. She died of stomach cancer on April 7, 1955 at the age of 69. For her contribution to the film industry, Theda Bara has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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- Born:
- Jul 29, 1885 In Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 41
- First Appeared:
- In the movie A Fool There Was 1915-01-12
- Latest Project:
- Movie Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films 2011-04-03
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films | Herself (archive footage) | 2011-04-03 |
| Movie | Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema | Self (archive footage) | 2007-05-23 |
| Movie | The Casting Couch | (archive footage) | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | The Love Goddesses | (archive footage) | 1965-03-03 |
| Movie | The Film Parade | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1933-01-01 |
| Movie | Stars of Yesterday | Self | 1931-12-31 |
| Movie | Madame Mystery | Madame Mysterieux | 1926-03-12 |
| Movie | 45 Minutes from Hollywood | Herself | 1926-12-26 |
| Movie | The Unchastened Woman | Caroline Knollys | 1925-11-15 |
| Movie | The Light | Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne | 1919-01-12 |
| Movie | When Men Desire | Marie Lohr | 1919-03-09 |
| Movie | The Siren's Song | Marie Bernais | 1919-05-03 |
| Movie | Lure of Ambition | Olga Dolan | 1919-11-16 |
| Movie | A Woman There Was | Princess Zara | 1919-06-01 |
| Movie | The Forbidden Path | Mary Lynde | 1918-02-03 |
| Movie | The Soul of Buddha | Bava | 1918-04-21 |
| Movie | Under the Yoke | Maria Valverda | 1918-07-09 |
| Movie | The She Devil | Lolette | 1918-11-10 |
| Movie | When a Woman Sins | Lilian Marchard / Poppea | 1918-09-28 |
| Movie | Salome | Salome | 1918-08-10 |
| Movie | The Tiger Woman | Princess Petrovitch | 1917-02-18 |
| Movie | The Darling of Paris | Esmeralda | 1917-01-22 |
| Movie | Heart and Soul | Jess | 1917-05-21 |
| Movie | Madame du Barry | Madame du Barry | 1917-12-30 |
| Movie | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | 1917-10-14 |
| Movie | The Rose Of Blood | Lisza Tapenka | 1917-11-04 |
| Movie | The Eternal Sapho | Laura Bruffins | 1916-05-06 |
| Movie | The Serpent | Vania Lazar | 1916-01-23 |
| Movie | East Lynne | Lady Isabel Carlisle | 1916-06-18 |
| Movie | Gold and the Woman | Juliet DeCordova | 1916-03-13 |
| Movie | Under Two Flags | Cigarette | 1916-07-31 |
| Movie | Romeo and Juliet | Juliet | 1916-10-21 |
| Movie | The Vixen | Elsie Drummond | 1916-12-03 |
| Movie | Her Double Life | Mary Doone | 1916-09-10 |
| Movie | Kreutzer Sonata | Celia Friedlander | 1915-03-01 |
| Movie | A Fool There Was | The Vampire | 1915-01-12 |
| Movie | The Clemenceau Case | Iza | 1915-04-12 |
| Movie | The Two Orphans | Henriette | 1915-09-05 |
| Movie | Carmen | Carmen | 1915-11-01 |
| Movie | Lady Audley's Secret | Helen Talboys | 1915-08-04 |
| Movie | The Devil's Daughter | La Gioconda | 1915-06-16 |