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
1995
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
- 45 Minutes from Hollywood as Herself
- Madame Mystery as Madame Mysterieux
1925
- The Unchastened Woman as Caroline Knollys
1919
- Kathleen Mavourneen as Kathleen Mavourneen
- A Woman There Was as Princess Zara
- The Siren's Song as Marie Bernais
- When Men Desire as Marie Lohr
- Lure of Ambition as Olga Dolan
- The Light as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
- La belle Russe as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
1918
- When a Woman Sins as Lilian Marchard / Poppea
- Salome as Salome
- The Soul of Buddha as Bava
- Under the Yoke as Maria Valverda
- The She Devil as Lolette
- The Forbidden Path as Mary Lynde
1917
- Cleopatra as Cleopatra
- Madame du Barry as Madame du Barry
- The Darling of Paris as Esmeralda
- The Rose Of Blood as Lisza Tapenka
- Heart and Soul as Jess
- Camille as Marguerite Gautier
- The Tiger Woman as Princess Petrovitch
- Her Greatest Love as Vera Herbert
1916
- Gold and the Woman as Juliet DeCordova
- The Vixen as Elsie Drummond
- Romeo and Juliet as Juliet
- East Lynne as Lady Isabel Carlisle
- The Serpent as Vania Lazar
- Under Two Flags as Cigarette
- The Eternal Sapho as Laura Bruffins
- Her Double Life as Mary Doone
1915
- A Fool There Was as The Vampire
- Destruction as Ferdinande Martin
- Sin as Rosa
- Lady Audley's Secret as Helen Talboys
- The Devil's Daughter as La Gioconda
- The Two Orphans as Henriette
- Kreutzer Sonata as Celia Friedlander
- Carmen as Carmen
- The Clemenceau Case as Iza
- The Galley Slave as Francesca Brabaut
1914
- The Stain as Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)