Theda Bara
Born: 1885-07-28 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Died: 1955-04-07
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2011
- Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Herself (archive footage)
2007
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2006
- The Woman with the Hungry Eyes as Archival Footage
1939
- The Movies March On as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
1933
- The Film Parade as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1931
- Stars of Yesterday as Self
1926
- Madame Mystery as Madame Mysterieux
- 45 Minutes from Hollywood as Herself
1925
- The Unchastened Woman as Caroline Knollys
1919
- A Woman There Was as Princess Zara
- The Light as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
- La belle Russe as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
- When Men Desire as Marie Lohr
- The Siren's Song as Marie Bernais
- Lure of Ambition as Olga Dolan
- Kathleen Mavourneen as Kathleen Mavourneen
1918
- The Forbidden Path as Mary Lynde
- When a Woman Sins as Lilian Marchard / Poppea
- Under the Yoke as Maria Valverda
- Salome as Salome
- The She Devil as Lolette
- The Soul of Buddha as Bava
1917
- Cleopatra as Cleopatra
- Madame du Barry as Madame du Barry
- The Tiger Woman as Princess Petrovitch
- The Darling of Paris as Esmeralda
- Heart and Soul as Jess
- The Rose Of Blood as Lisza Tapenka
- Her Greatest Love as Vera Herbert
- Camille as Marguerite Gautier
1916
- Under Two Flags as Cigarette
- The Serpent as Vania Lazar
- The Vixen as Elsie Drummond
- Gold and the Woman as Juliet DeCordova
- Her Double Life as Mary Doone
- East Lynne as Lady Isabel Carlisle
- Romeo and Juliet as Juliet
- The Eternal Sapho as Laura Bruffins
1915
- The Devil's Daughter as La Gioconda
- Carmen as Carmen
- A Fool There Was as The Vampire
- Lady Audley's Secret as Helen Talboys
- The Galley Slave as Francesca Brabaut
- Destruction as Ferdinande Martin
- Kreutzer Sonata as Celia Friedlander
- Sin as Rosa
- The Clemenceau Case as Iza
- The Two Orphans as Henriette
1914
- The Stain as Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)