Acting
Theda Bara
Also Known As: Theodosia Burr Goodman, Theodosia Goodman, Theo DeCoppet
Birth Date
July 28, 1885
Death Date
April 7, 1955
(passed away at 69)
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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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.
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A Fool There Was
The Vampire
1915
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2007
The Casting Couch
1995
Destruction
Ferdinande Martin
1915
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Herself
1926
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen
1919
Sin
Rosa
1915
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Herself (archive footage)
2011
Gold and the Woman
Juliet DeCordova
1916
A Woman There Was
Princess Zara
1919
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
Archival Footage
2006
The Movies March On
Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
1939
The Vixen
Elsie Drummond
1916
The Siren's Song
Marie Bernais
1919
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
1917
The Rose Of Blood
Lisza Tapenka
1917
When a Woman Sins
Lilian Marchard / Poppea
1918
Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry
1917
The Unchastened Woman
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1925
Lady Audley's Secret
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1915