Theda Bara
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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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.232 |
Birthday | 1885-07-28 |
Place of Birth | Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
Also Known As | Theodosia Burr Goodman, Theodosia Goodman, Theo DeCoppet, |
1919
Kathleen Mavourneen
0/0
Kathleen, the daughter of a poor tenant farmer, dreams of her wedding with her beloved Terrence. The dream is interrupted when the Squire of the estat...
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Kathleen Mavourneen
1915
The Devil's Daughter
0/0
"My heart is ice, my passion consuming fire. Let men beware," exclaimed Theda Bara (via an inter-title, of course) in this "Vamp" melodrama based on G...
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The Devil's Daughter
1915
Lady Audley's Secret
0/0
Florid melodrama of misunderstandings, betrayal and desperation as Theda schemes to keep the title secret.
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Lady Audley's Secret
1915
The Two Orphans
0/0
This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. This version, made by the Fox Studios, stars famous...
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The Two Orphans
1915
The Clemenceau Case
1/1
This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the cast. Based on the Alexand...
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The Clemenceau Case
1916
Gold and the Woman
0/0
The daughter of a Mexican aristocrat endures the travails of the Mexican revolution.
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Gold and the Woman
1919
La belle Russe
0/0
In this film, her next-to-last picture for Fox, it was Theda Bara's turn to tackle a double role. Bara's characters are twin sisters La Belle Russe, t...
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La belle Russe
1916
Her Double Life
0/0
Mary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the father made a pass at her. She lives at a parish hous...
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Her Double Life
1917
The Tiger Woman
5/1
Theda Bara's vamping is at its most evil here. She plays the Russian Princess Petrovitch, who loves only her pearls. Her husband, the Prince (E.F. Ros...
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The Tiger Woman
1917
Her Greatest Love
1/1
Vere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord Jura (Glen White). Although Vere is in love with...
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Her Greatest Love
1917
Heart and Soul
0/0
Desperate to change her vixenish image, Theda Bara was called upon to play a sweet young thing (she was nearly 30) who sacrifices herself for the happ...
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Heart and Soul
1917
Camille
0/0
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hop...
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Camille
1918
The Forbidden Path
0/0
Mary Lynde (Theda Bara) is an innocent girl who has grown up in New York's Greenwich Village. One of the artists there, Felix Benavente (Sidney Mason)...
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The Forbidden Path
1919
The Light
0/0
Theda Bara does her usual vamp turn in this picture, but this time she's a vamp who turns out to have a heart of gold. Her character, Blanchette DuMon...
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The Light
1919
Lure of Ambition
0/0
Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness. Sadly, Bara, who ha...
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Lure of Ambition
1915
A Fool There Was
5.2/28
John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come al...
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A Fool There Was
1917
Cleopatra
3.8/4
The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony. Only a...
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Cleopatra
1926
45 Minutes from Hollywood
5/25
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
1918
Salome
7/1
Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet Joh...
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Salome
1931
Stars of Yesterday
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Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
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Stars of Yesterday
1925
The Unchastened Woman
5.3/6
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The Unchastened Woman
1916
East Lynne
4.6/5
An adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady Isabel Carlisle cast in a modern setting.
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East Lynne
1995
The Casting Couch
9/2
An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes...
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The Casting Couch
1916
Romeo and Juliet
0/0
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families.
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Romeo and Juliet
2011
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
9/1
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1917
The Darling of Paris
0/0
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The Darling of Paris
1918
The She Devil
0/0
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The She Devil
1916
The Eternal Sapho
0/0
A scheme by a beautiful vamp to marry a wealthy young man fails, and the woman returns to her former lover, a sculptor. She is shocked to discover he...
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The Eternal Sapho
1919
A Woman There Was
0/0
Theda Bara plays Princess Zara, who lives on a South Sea Island. A handsome young missionary (William B. Davidson) arrives and there is a romance, whi...
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A Woman There Was
1916
The Vixen
0/0
In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond. She wooed Wall Street businessman Martin Steve...
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The Vixen
1926
Madame Mystery
5.6/4
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Madame Mystery
1915
Carmen
6/1
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Carmen
1919
The Siren's Song
0/0
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1919
When Men Desire
0/0
A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover.
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1933
The Film Parade
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1918
When a Woman Sins
1/1
Lilian is engaged to an older man in poor health when she meets his son Michael, whom she falls for. Due to a misunderstanding between the two, Lilian...
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When a Woman Sins
1917
The Rose Of Blood
0/0
Lisza Tapenko (Bara) is governess in the household of Prince Arbasoff (Charles Clary). After the death of his wife, Lisza and he become involved, but...
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The Rose Of Blood
1918
Under the Yoke
0/0
As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez (Nye), he starts an insurrection among the native...
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Under the Yoke
1917
Madame du Barry
7/1
After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entre to the royal cou...
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Madame du Barry
2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
4.9/4
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1965
The Love Goddesses
6.3/22
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry change...
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1915
Destruction
1/1
Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies before he can change his will. She next tries to kill...
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1916
Under Two Flags
0/0
The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is sentenced to a firing squad, she heroically takes...
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1939
The Movies March On
3.5/1
A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the...
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1914
The Stain
0/0
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The Stain
1915
Sin
0/0
Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.
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1918
The Soul of Buddha
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Theda Bara plays a Javanese priestess who elopes with an English military officer (Hugh Thompson). Bara's Bavahari becomes a celebrated dancer but is...
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The Soul of Buddha
2006
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
6/2
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The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
1916
The Serpent
0/0
Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.
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The Serpent
1915
The Galley Slave
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Francesca Brabaut, who married an artist against her father's advice, regrets her decision when her husband Antoine, in debt, sends her to his misanth...
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The Galley Slave
1915
Kreutzer Sonata
3.5/2
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