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.
Movies & TV Shows
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A Fool There Was (1915) — The Vampire
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45 Minutes from Hollywood (1926) — Herself
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The Unchastened Woman (1925) — Caroline Knollys
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Cleopatra (1917) — Cleopatra
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East Lynne (1916) — Lady Isabel Carlisle
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Madame Mystery (1926) — Madame Mysterieux
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007) — Self (archive footage)
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Kreutzer Sonata (1915) — Celia Friedlander
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The Casting Couch (1995)
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The Clemenceau Case (1915) — Iza
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Her Greatest Love (1917) — Vera Herbert
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When a Woman Sins (1918) — Lilian Marchard / Poppea
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Destruction (1915) — Ferdinande Martin
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The Movies March On (1939) — Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
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The Woman with the Hungry Eyes (2006) — Archival Footage
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Kathleen Mavourneen (1919) — Kathleen Mavourneen
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The Tiger Woman (1917) — Princess Petrovitch
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The Light (1919) — Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
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Lure of Ambition (1919) — Olga Dolan
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Salome (1918) — Salome
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Stars of Yesterday (1931) — Self
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011) — Herself (archive footage)
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A Woman There Was (1919) — Princess Zara
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Carmen (1915) — Carmen
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The Siren's Song (1919) — Marie Bernais
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When Men Desire (1919) — Marie Lohr
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The Film Parade (1933) — (archive footage) (uncredited)
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Madame du Barry (1917) — Madame du Barry
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The Stain (1914) — Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)
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The Devil's Daughter (1915) — La Gioconda
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Lady Audley's Secret (1915) — Helen Talboys
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The Two Orphans (1915) — Henriette
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Gold and the Woman (1916) — Juliet DeCordova
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La belle Russe (1919) — Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
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Her Double Life (1916) — Mary Doone
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Heart and Soul (1917) — Jess
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Camille (1917) — Marguerite Gautier
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The Forbidden Path (1918) — Mary Lynde
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Romeo and Juliet (1916) — Juliet
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The Darling of Paris (1917) — Esmeralda