Theda Bara
Born
July 28, 1885
Died
April 7, 1955 (69 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Herself (archive footage)
2011
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2007
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
Archival Footage
2006
The Movies March On
Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
1939
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
Stars of Yesterday
Self
1931
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Herself
1926
Madame Mystery
Madame Mysterieux
1926
The Unchastened Woman
Caroline Knollys
1925
Lure of Ambition
Olga Dolan
1919
La belle Russe
Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
1919
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen
1919
A Woman There Was
Princess Zara
1919
The Siren's Song
Marie Bernais
1919
When Men Desire
Marie Lohr
1919
The Light
Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
1919
The She Devil
Lolette
1918
When a Woman Sins
Lilian Marchard / Poppea
1918
Salome
Salome
1918
Under the Yoke
Maria Valverda
1918
The Soul of Buddha
Bava
1918
The Forbidden Path
Mary Lynde
1918
Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry
1917
The Rose Of Blood
Lisza Tapenka
1917
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
1917
Camille
Marguerite Gautier
1917
Heart and Soul
Jess
1917
Her Greatest Love
Vera Herbert
1917
The Tiger Woman
Princess Petrovitch
1917
The Darling of Paris
Esmeralda
1917
The Vixen
Elsie Drummond
1916
Romeo and Juliet
Juliet
1916
Her Double Life
Mary Doone
1916
Under Two Flags
Cigarette
1916
East Lynne
Lady Isabel Carlisle
1916
The Eternal Sapho
Laura Bruffins
1916
Gold and the Woman
Juliet DeCordova
1916
The Serpent
Vania Lazar
1916
Destruction
Ferdinande Martin
1915
The Galley Slave
Francesca Brabaut
1915
Carmen
Carmen
1915
Sin
Rosa
1915
The Two Orphans
Henriette
1915
Lady Audley's Secret
Helen Talboys
1915
The Devil's Daughter
La Gioconda
1915
The Clemenceau Case
Iza
1915
Kreutzer Sonata
Celia Friedlander
1915
A Fool There Was
The Vampire
1915
The Stain
Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)
1914