Theda Bara
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.
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Movies (49)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Herself (archive footage)
2011
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
as Archival Footage
2006
The Movies March On
as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
1939
The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
Stars of Yesterday
as Self
1931
45 Minutes from Hollywood
as Herself
1926
Madame Mystery
as Madame Mysterieux
1926
The Unchastened Woman
as Caroline Knollys
1925
Lure of Ambition
as Olga Dolan
1919
La belle Russe
as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
1919
Kathleen Mavourneen
as Kathleen Mavourneen
1919
A Woman There Was
as Princess Zara
1919
The Siren's Song
as Marie Bernais
1919
When Men Desire
as Marie Lohr
1919
The Light
as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
1919
The She Devil
as Lolette
1918
When a Woman Sins
as Lilian Marchard / Poppea
1918
Salome
as Salome
1918
Under the Yoke
as Maria Valverda
1918
The Soul of Buddha
as Bava
1918
The Forbidden Path
as Mary Lynde
1918
Madame du Barry
as Madame du Barry
1917
The Rose Of Blood
as Lisza Tapenka
1917
Cleopatra
as Cleopatra
1917
Camille
as Marguerite Gautier
1917
Heart and Soul
as Jess
1917
Her Greatest Love
as Vera Herbert
1917
The Tiger Woman
as Princess Petrovitch
1917
The Darling of Paris
as Esmeralda
1917
The Vixen
as Elsie Drummond
1916
Romeo and Juliet
as Juliet
1916
Her Double Life
as Mary Doone
1916
Under Two Flags
as Cigarette
1916
East Lynne
as Lady Isabel Carlisle
1916
The Eternal Sapho
as Laura Bruffins
1916
Gold and the Woman
as Juliet DeCordova
1916
The Serpent
as Vania Lazar
1916
Destruction
as Ferdinande Martin
1915
The Galley Slave
as Francesca Brabaut
1915
Carmen
as Carmen
1915
Sin
as Rosa
1915
The Two Orphans
as Henriette
1915
Lady Audley's Secret
as Helen Talboys
1915
The Devil's Daughter
as La Gioconda
1915
The Clemenceau Case
as Iza
1915
Kreutzer Sonata
as Celia Friedlander
1915
A Fool There Was
as The Vampire
1915
The Stain
as Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)
1914