Theda Bara

Theda Bara

1885-07-28 – 1955-04-07 (age 69) Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Biography

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Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 โ€“ 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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Known For

A Fool There Was
A Fool There Was

1915

as The Vampire

Carmen
Carmen

1915

as Carmen

The Light
The Light

1919

as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne

Camille
Camille

1917

as Marguerite Gautier

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

2011

as Herself (archive footage)

Cleopatra
Cleopatra

1917

as Cleopatra

The Casting Couch
Under the Yoke
Under the Yoke

1918

as Maria Valverda

The Rose Of Blood
The Rose Of Blood

1917

as Lisza Tapenka

Salome
Salome

1918

as Salome

The Clemenceau Case
When Men Desire
When Men Desire

1919

as Marie Lohr

Under Two Flags
Under Two Flags

1916

as Cigarette

When a Woman Sins
When a Woman Sins

1918

as Lilian Marchard / Poppea

The Serpent
The Serpent

1916

as Vania Lazar

The Tiger Woman
The Tiger Woman

1917

as Princess Petrovitch

The Forbidden Path
The Forbidden Path

1918

as Mary Lynde

Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen

1919

as Kathleen Mavourneen

A Woman There Was
A Woman There Was

1919

as Princess Zara