Theda Bara
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday28 July 1885
Died7 April 1955 (age 69)
Place of birthCincinnati, Ohio, USA
Known credits50
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 fil…
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011 · Herself (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007 · Self (archive footage)
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
2006 · Archival Footage
The Casting Couch
1995
The Movies March On
1939 · Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
The Film Parade
1933 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stars of Yesterday
1931 · Self
45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926 · Herself
Madame Mystery
1926 · Madame Mysterieux
The Unchastened Woman
1925 · Caroline Knollys
Lure of Ambition
1919 · Olga Dolan
La belle Russe
1919 · Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
Kathleen Mavourneen
1919 · Kathleen Mavourneen
A Woman There Was
1919 · Princess Zara
The Siren's Song
1919 · Marie Bernais
When Men Desire
1919 · Marie Lohr
The Light
1919 · Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
The She Devil
1918 · Lolette
When a Woman Sins
1918 · Lilian Marchard / Poppea
Salome
1918 · Salome
Under the Yoke
1918 · Maria Valverda
The Soul of Buddha
1918 · Bava
The Soul of Buddha
1918 · Story
The Forbidden Path
1918 · Mary Lynde
Madame du Barry
1917 · Madame du Barry
The Rose Of Blood
1917 · Lisza Tapenka
Cleopatra
1917 · Cleopatra
Camille
1917 · Marguerite Gautier
Heart and Soul
1917 · Jess
Her Greatest Love
1917 · Vera Herbert
The Tiger Woman
1917 · Princess Petrovitch
The Darling of Paris
1917 · Esmeralda
The Vixen
1916 · Elsie Drummond
Romeo and Juliet
1916 · Juliet
Her Double Life
1916 · Mary Doone
Under Two Flags
1916 · Cigarette
East Lynne
1916 · Lady Isabel Carlisle
The Eternal Sapho
1916 · Laura Bruffins
Gold and the Woman
1916 · Juliet DeCordova
The Serpent
1916 · Vania Lazar
Destruction
1915 · Ferdinande Martin
The Galley Slave
1915 · Francesca Brabaut
Carmen
1915 · Carmen
Sin
1915 · Rosa
The Two Orphans
1915 · Henriette
Lady Audley's Secret
1915 · Helen Talboys
The Devil's Daughter
1915 · La Gioconda
The Clemenceau Case
1915 · Iza
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