- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- July 28, 1885
- Place of Birth
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Died
- April 7, 1955
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.
Filmography
movieFragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011 · Herself (archive footage)
movieWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Woman with the Hungry Eyes
2006 · Archival Footage
movieThe Casting Couch
1995
movieThe Movies March On
1939 · Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
movieThe Film Parade
1933 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieStars of Yesterday
1931 · Self
movie45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926 · Herself
movieMadame Mystery
1926 · Madame Mysterieux
movieThe Unchastened Woman
1925 · Caroline Knollys
movieLure of Ambition
1919 · Olga Dolan
movieLa belle Russe
1919 · Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
movieKathleen Mavourneen
1919 · Kathleen Mavourneen
movieA Woman There Was
1919 · Princess Zara
movieThe Siren's Song
1919 · Marie Bernais
movieWhen Men Desire
1919 · Marie Lohr
movieThe Light
1919 · Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
movieThe She Devil
1918 · Lolette
movieWhen a Woman Sins
1918 · Lilian Marchard / Poppea
movieSalome
1918 · Salome
movieUnder the Yoke
1918 · Maria Valverda
movieThe Soul of Buddha
1918 · Bava, Story
movieThe Forbidden Path
1918 · Mary Lynde
movieMadame du Barry
1917 · Madame du Barry
movieThe Rose Of Blood
1917 · Lisza Tapenka
movieCleopatra
1917 · Cleopatra
movieCamille
1917 · Marguerite Gautier
movieHeart and Soul
1917 · Jess
movieHer Greatest Love
1917 · Vera Herbert
movieThe Tiger Woman
1917 · Princess Petrovitch
movieThe Darling of Paris
1917 · Esmeralda
movieThe Vixen
1916 · Elsie Drummond
movieRomeo and Juliet
1916 · Juliet
movieHer Double Life
1916 · Mary Doone
movieUnder Two Flags
1916 · Cigarette
movieEast Lynne
1916 · Lady Isabel Carlisle
movieThe Eternal Sapho
1916 · Laura Bruffins
movieGold and the Woman
1916 · Juliet DeCordova
movieThe Serpent
1916 · Vania Lazar
movieDestruction
1915 · Ferdinande Martin
movieThe Galley Slave
1915 · Francesca Brabaut
movieCarmen
1915 · Carmen
movieSin
1915 · Rosa
movieThe Two Orphans
1915 · Henriette
movieLady Audley's Secret
1915 · Helen Talboys
movieThe Devil's Daughter
1915 · La Gioconda
movieThe Clemenceau Case
1915 · Iza
movieKreutzer Sonata
1915 · Celia Friedlander
movieA Fool There Was
1915 · The Vampire
movieThe Stain
1914 · Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)