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Theda Bara

Theda Bara

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.

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

2011

as Herself (archive footage)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

2007

as Self (archive footage)

The Woman with the Hungry Eyes

2006

as Archival Footage

The Casting Couch

1995

as (archive footage)

The Love Goddesses

1965

as (archive footage)

The Movies March On

1939

as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)

The Film Parade

1933

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Stars of Yesterday

1931

as Self

45 Minutes from Hollywood

1926

as Herself

Madame Mystery

1926

as Madame Mysterieux

The Unchastened Woman

1925

as Caroline Knollys

Lure of Ambition

1919

as Olga Dolan

La belle Russe

1919

as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe

Kathleen Mavourneen

1919

as Kathleen Mavourneen

A Woman There Was

1919

as Princess Zara

The Siren's Song

1919

as Marie Bernais

When Men Desire

1919

as Marie Lohr

The Light

1919

as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne

The She Devil

1918

as Lolette

When a Woman Sins

1918

as Lilian Marchard / Poppea

Salome

1918

as Salome

Under the Yoke

1918

as Maria Valverda

The Soul of Buddha

1918

as Bava

The Forbidden Path

1918

as Mary Lynde

Madame du Barry

1917

as Madame du Barry

The Rose Of Blood

1917

as Lisza Tapenka

Cleopatra

1917

as Cleopatra

Camille

1917

as Marguerite Gautier

Heart and Soul

1917

as Jess

Her Greatest Love

1917

as Vera Herbert

The Tiger Woman

1917

as Princess Petrovitch

The Darling of Paris

1917

as Esmeralda

The Vixen

1916

as Elsie Drummond

Romeo and Juliet

1916

as Juliet

Her Double Life

1916

as Mary Doone

Under Two Flags

1916

as Cigarette

East Lynne

1916

as Lady Isabel Carlisle

The Eternal Sapho

1916

as Laura Bruffins

Gold and the Woman

1916

as Juliet DeCordova

The Serpent

1916

as Vania Lazar

Destruction

1915

as Ferdinande Martin

The Galley Slave

1915

as Francesca Brabaut

Carmen

1915

as Carmen

Sin

1915

as Rosa

The Two Orphans

1915

as Henriette

Lady Audley's Secret

1915

as Helen Talboys

The Devil's Daughter

1915

as La Gioconda

The Clemenceau Case

1915

as Iza

Kreutzer Sonata

1915

as Celia Friedlander

A Fool There Was

1915

as The Vampire

The Stain

1914

as Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)