Theda Bara

Actor · 1885–1955 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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.

Acted in 45

2000s

2006
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
Archival Footage

1990s

1995
The Casting Couch
Movie

1930s

1933
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)

1920s

1926
Madame Mystery
Madame Mysterieux
1925
The Unchastened Woman
Caroline Knollys

1910s

1919
Lure of Ambition
Olga Dolan
La belle Russe
Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen
A Woman There Was
Princess Zara
The Siren's Song
Marie Bernais
When Men Desire
Marie Lohr
The Light
Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
1918
The She Devil
Lolette
When a Woman Sins
Lilian Marchard / Poppea
Salome
Salome
Under the Yoke
Maria Valverda
The Soul of Buddha
Bava
The Forbidden Path
Mary Lynde
1917
Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry
The Rose Of Blood
Lisza Tapenka
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
Camille
Marguerite Gautier
Heart and Soul
Jess
Her Greatest Love
Vera Herbert
The Tiger Woman
Princess Petrovitch
The Darling of Paris
Esmeralda
1916
The Vixen
Elsie Drummond
Romeo and Juliet
Juliet
Her Double Life
Mary Doone
Under Two Flags
Cigarette
East Lynne
Lady Isabel Carlisle
The Eternal Sapho
Laura Bruffins
Gold and the Woman
Juliet DeCordova
The Serpent
Vania Lazar
1915
Destruction
Ferdinande Martin
The Galley Slave
Francesca Brabaut
Carmen
Carmen
Sin
Rosa
The Two Orphans
Henriette
Lady Audley's Secret
Helen Talboys
The Devil's Daughter
La Gioconda
The Clemenceau Case
Iza
Kreutzer Sonata
Celia Friedlander
A Fool There Was
The Vampire
1914
The Stain
Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)

Wrote 1

1910s

1918
The Soul of Buddha
Story

Appearances5

2010s

2011
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Herself (archive footage)