Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 28, 1885
Died
Apr 07, 1955
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Credits
50 titles
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
Filmography
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Herself (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
Archival Footage
The Casting Couch
The Movies March On
Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Stars of Yesterday
Self
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Herself
Madame Mystery
Madame Mysterieux
The Unchastened Woman
Caroline Knollys
Lure of Ambition
Olga Dolan
La belle Russe
Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen
A Woman There Was
Princess Zara
The Siren's Song
Marie Bernais
When Men Desire
Marie Lohr
The Light
Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
The She Devil
Lolette
When a Woman Sins
Lilian Marchard / Poppea
Salome
Salome
Under the Yoke
Maria Valverda
The Soul of Buddha
Bava
The Forbidden Path
Mary Lynde
Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry
The Rose Of Blood
Lisza Tapenka
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
Camille
Marguerite Gautier
Heart and Soul
Jess
Her Greatest Love
Vera Herbert
The Tiger Woman
Princess Petrovitch
The Darling of Paris
Esmeralda
The Vixen
Elsie Drummond
Romeo and Juliet
Juliet
Her Double Life
Mary Doone
Under Two Flags
Cigarette
East Lynne
Lady Isabel Carlisle
The Eternal Sapho
Laura Bruffins
Gold and the Woman
Juliet DeCordova
The Serpent
Vania Lazar
Destruction
Ferdinande Martin
The Galley Slave
Francesca Brabaut
Carmen
Carmen
Sin
Rosa
The Two Orphans
Henriette
Lady Audley's Secret
Helen Talboys
The Devil's Daughter
La Gioconda
The Clemenceau Case
Iza
Kreutzer Sonata
Celia Friedlander
A Fool There Was
The Vampire
The Stain
Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)