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. Bara died of stomach cancer in 1955 at the age of 69.
A Fool There Was
as The VampireJohn Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an...
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
as HerselfA young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery...
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Cleopatra
as CleopatraThe story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the...
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The Unchastened Woman
as Caroline KnollysWhen she goes to tell her husband Hubert that she is expecting a child, Caroline Knollys finds...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was,...
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Romeo and Juliet
as JulietShakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud...
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Madame Mystery
as Madame MysterieuxA female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the...
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Salome
as SalomePalestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter...
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When Men Desire
as Marie LohrA woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover.
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East Lynne
as Lady Isabel CarlisleAn adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady...
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The Tiger Woman
as Princess PetrovitchTheda Bara's vamping is at its most evil here. She plays the Russian Princess Petrovitch, who...
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The Rose Of Blood
as Lisza TapenkaLisza Tapenko (Bara) is governess in the household of Prince Arbasoff (Charles Clary). After the...
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The Darling of Paris
as EsmeraldaThis film is a very loose film adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by...
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Lure of Ambition
as Olga DolanTheda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of...
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Herself (archive footage)Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith...
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Heart and Soul
as JessDesperate to change her vixenish image, Theda Bara was called upon to play a sweet young thing...
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When a Woman Sins
as Lilian Marchard / PoppeaLilian is engaged to an older man in poor health when she meets his son Michael, whom she falls...
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The Vixen
as Elsie DrummondIn this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie...
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Sin
as RosaItalian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.
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The Galley Slave
as Francesca BrabautFrancesca Brabaut, who married an artist against her father's advice, regrets her decision when...
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The Devil's Daughter
as La Gioconda"My heart is ice, my passion consuming fire. Let men beware," exclaimed Theda Bara (via an...
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La belle Russe
as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle RusseIn this film, her next-to-last picture for Fox, it was Theda Bara's turn to tackle a double...
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The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of...
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The She Devil
as LoletteLolette an exotic and spirited peasant girl lives In the small Spanish village of Juanguera ....
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The Clemenceau Case
as IzaThis was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with...
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The Light
as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame LefresneTheda Bara does her usual vamp turn in this picture, but this time she's a vamp who turns out to...
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Kathleen Mavourneen
as Kathleen MavourneenKathleen, the daughter of a poor tenant farmer, dreams of her wedding with her beloved Terrence....
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The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
as Archival FootageThe true story of the life of the movies first femme-fatale, Theda Bara, who made over 40 films,...
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Carmen
as CarmenA Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with...
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Kreutzer Sonata
as Celia FriedlanderBased -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is...
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Destruction
as Ferdinande MartinFernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies...
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The Two Orphans
as HenrietteThis picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in...
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Under the Yoke
as Maria ValverdaAs described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo...
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The Soul of Buddha
as BavaTheda Bara plays a Javanese priestess who elopes with an English military officer (Hugh...
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Madame du Barry
as Madame du BarryAfter Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of...
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Lady Audley's Secret
as Helen TalboysFlorid melodrama of misunderstandings, betrayal and desperation as Theda schemes to keep the...
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Camille
as Marguerite GautierCamille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand...
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Gold and the Woman
as Juliet DeCordovaThe daughter of a Mexican aristocrat endures the travails of the Mexican revolution.
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The Siren's Song
as Marie BernaisMarie Bernais, a Breton village girl, possesses a wonderful voice which her father believes is a...
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The Eternal Sapho
as Laura BruffinsA scheme by a beautiful vamp to marry a wealthy young man fails, and the woman returns to her...
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The Stain
as Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an...
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Her Double Life
as Mary DooneMary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the...
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Under Two Flags
as CigaretteThe Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when...
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The Forbidden Path
as Mary LyndeMary Lynde (Theda Bara) is an innocent girl who has grown up in New York's Greenwich Village....
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A Woman There Was
as Princess ZaraTheda Bara plays Princess Zara, who lives on a South Sea Island. A handsome young missionary...
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The Serpent
as Vania LazarPeasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.
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Her Greatest Love
as Vera HerbertVere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with...
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