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