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