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:
- 23
- 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 | 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 | A Woman There Was | Princess Zara | 1919-06-01 |
| Movie | When Men Desire | Marie Lohr | 1919-03-09 |
| Movie | The Siren's Song | Marie Bernais | 1919-05-03 |
| Movie | Salome | Salome | 1918-08-10 |
| Movie | The Soul of Buddha | Bava | 1918-04-21 |
| Movie | The She Devil | Lolette | 1918-11-10 |
| Movie | The Darling of Paris | Esmeralda | 1917-01-22 |
| Movie | The Tiger Woman | Princess Petrovitch | 1917-02-18 |
| Movie | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | 1917-10-14 |
| Movie | The Eternal Sapho | Laura Bruffins | 1916-05-06 |
| Movie | East Lynne | Lady Isabel Carlisle | 1916-06-18 |
| Movie | Romeo and Juliet | Juliet | 1916-10-21 |
| Movie | Her Double Life | Mary Doone | 1916-09-10 |
| Movie | The Vixen | Elsie Drummond | 1916-12-03 |
| Movie | A Fool There Was | The Vampire | 1915-01-12 |
| Movie | Carmen | Carmen | 1915-11-01 |
| Movie | Kreutzer Sonata | Celia Friedlander | 1915-03-01 |