Person
Theda Bara
Acting · 1885–1955 · 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.
Known for
Destruction
Ferdinande Martin
The Casting Couch
1995
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen
A Fool There Was
The Vampire
Sin
Rosa
The Unchastened Woman
Caroline Knollys
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Two Orphans
Henriette
Gold and the Woman
Juliet DeCordova
When Men Desire
Marie Lohr
Filmography
- 2011Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost FilmsHerself (archive footage)
- 2007Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early CinemaSelf (archive footage)
- 2006The Woman with the Hungry EyesArchival Footage
- 1995The Casting Couch
- 1939The Movies March OnSelf - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
- 1933The Film Parade(archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1931Stars of YesterdaySelf
- 192645 Minutes from HollywoodHerself
- 1926Madame MysteryMadame Mysterieux
- 1925The Unchastened WomanCaroline Knollys
- 1919Lure of AmbitionOlga Dolan
- 1919La belle RusseFleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
- 1919Kathleen MavourneenKathleen Mavourneen
- 1919A Woman There WasPrincess Zara
- 1919The Siren's SongMarie Bernais
- 1919When Men DesireMarie Lohr
- 1919The LightBlanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
- 1918The She DevilLolette
- 1918When a Woman SinsLilian Marchard / Poppea
- 1918SalomeSalome
- 1918Under the YokeMaria Valverda
- 1918The Soul of BuddhaBava
- 1918The Forbidden PathMary Lynde
- 1917Madame du BarryMadame du Barry
- 1917The Rose Of BloodLisza Tapenka
- 1917CleopatraCleopatra
- 1917CamilleMarguerite Gautier
- 1917Heart and SoulJess
- 1917Her Greatest LoveVera Herbert
- 1917The Tiger WomanPrincess Petrovitch
- 1917The Darling of ParisEsmeralda
- 1916The VixenElsie Drummond
- 1916Romeo and JulietJuliet
- 1916Her Double LifeMary Doone
- 1916Under Two FlagsCigarette
- 1916East LynneLady Isabel Carlisle
- 1916The Eternal SaphoLaura Bruffins
- 1916Gold and the WomanJuliet DeCordova
- 1916The SerpentVania Lazar
- 1915DestructionFerdinande Martin
- 1915The Galley SlaveFrancesca Brabaut
- 1915CarmenCarmen
- 1915SinRosa
- 1915The Two OrphansHenriette
- 1915Lady Audley's SecretHelen Talboys
- 1915The Devil's DaughterLa Gioconda
- 1915The Clemenceau CaseIza
- 1915Kreutzer SonataCelia Friedlander
- 1915A Fool There WasThe Vampire
- 1914The StainGang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)
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