Lure of Ambition

Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness. Sadly, Bara, who had more or less single-handedly begun the "vamp" craze with the prototype of the genre, A Fool There Was, went out with little more than a whisper. She left films after the ironically titled The Lure of Ambition, and was lured back only twice, in: The Unchastened Woman (1925), a poverty row concoction which had few takers, and Madame Mystery (1926)

• Edmund LawrenceDirector
• Edmund LawrenceWriter

• Theda BaraOlga Dolan
• Thurlow BergenDuke of Rutledge
• William B. DavidsonHon. Cyril Ralston
• Dan MasonSylvester Dolan
• Ida WatermanDuchess
• Amelia GardnerLady Constance Bromey
• Robert Paton GibbsMiguel Lopez
• Dorothy DrakeMuriel Ralston
• Peggy ParrMinna Dolan
• Tammany YoungDan Hicks