Theda Bara

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.

Known For

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

A Fool There Was

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

The Casting Couch

Cleopatra

45 Minutes from Hollywood

The Rose Of Blood

Under Two Flags

All Movies (50)

• Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films2011 · as Herself (archive footage)
• Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Woman with the Hungry Eyes2006 · as Archival Footage
• The Casting Couch1995
• The Movies March On1939 · as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
• The Film Parade1933 · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Stars of Yesterday1931 · as Self
• 45 Minutes from Hollywood1926 · as Herself
• Madame Mystery1926 · as Madame Mysterieux
• The Unchastened Woman1925 · as Caroline Knollys
• Lure of Ambition1919 · as Olga Dolan
• La belle Russe1919 · as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
• Kathleen Mavourneen1919 · as Kathleen Mavourneen
• A Woman There Was1919 · as Princess Zara
• The Siren's Song1919 · as Marie Bernais
• When Men Desire1919 · as Marie Lohr
• The Light1919 · as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
• The She Devil1918 · as Lolette
• When a Woman Sins1918 · as Lilian Marchard / Poppea
• Salome1918 · as Salome
• Under the Yoke1918 · as Maria Valverda
• The Soul of Buddha1918 · as Bava
• The Forbidden Path1918 · as Mary Lynde
• Madame du Barry1917 · as Madame du Barry
• The Rose Of Blood1917 · as Lisza Tapenka
• Cleopatra1917 · as Cleopatra
• Camille1917 · as Marguerite Gautier
• Heart and Soul1917 · as Jess
• Her Greatest Love1917 · as Vera Herbert
• The Tiger Woman1917 · as Princess Petrovitch
• The Darling of Paris1917 · as Esmeralda
• The Vixen1916 · as Elsie Drummond
• Romeo and Juliet1916 · as Juliet
• Her Double Life1916 · as Mary Doone
• Under Two Flags1916 · as Cigarette
• East Lynne1916 · as Lady Isabel Carlisle
• The Eternal Sapho1916 · as Laura Bruffins
• Gold and the Woman1916 · as Juliet DeCordova
• The Serpent1916 · as Vania Lazar
• Destruction1915 · as Ferdinande Martin
• The Galley Slave1915 · as Francesca Brabaut
• Carmen1915 · as Carmen
• Sin1915 · as Rosa
• The Two Orphans1915 · as Henriette
• Lady Audley's Secret1915 · as Helen Talboys
• The Devil's Daughter1915 · as La Gioconda
• The Clemenceau Case1915 · as Iza
• Kreutzer Sonata1915 · as Celia Friedlander
• A Fool There Was1915 · as The Vampire
• The Stain1914 · as Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)