Theda Bara
Actor
- Born
- July 28, 1885 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Died
- April 7, 1955 (age 69)
From Wikipedia
Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
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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
A Fool There Was
January 12, 1915
45 Minutes from Hollywood
December 26, 1926
The Unchastened Woman
November 15, 1925
Cleopatra
October 14, 1917
East Lynne
June 18, 1916
Madame Mystery
March 12, 1926
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
May 23, 2007
Kreutzer Sonata
March 1, 1915
The Casting Couch
January 1, 1995
The Clemenceau Case
April 12, 1915
Her Greatest Love
April 2, 1917
When a Woman Sins
September 28, 1918
Acting50
- 2011Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Herself (archive footage)
- 2007Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2006The Woman with the Hungry Eyes as Archival Footage
- 1995The Casting Couch
- 1939The Movies March On as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
- 1933The Film Parade as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1931Stars of Yesterday as Self
- 192645 Minutes from Hollywood as Herself
- 1926Madame Mystery as Madame Mysterieux
- 1925