Theda Bara
1885-07-28 (1885)Cincinnati, Ohio, USAActing
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.
Known For
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
MOVIE • 2007
The Vixen
MOVIE • 1916
Cleopatra
MOVIE • 1917
A Fool There Was
MOVIE • 1915
When Men Desire
MOVIE • 1919
Sin
MOVIE • 1915
The Film Parade
MOVIE • 1933
Madame du Barry
MOVIE • 1917
The Unchastened Woman
MOVIE • 1925
Destruction
MOVIE • 1915
Kathleen Mavourneen
MOVIE • 1919
The Siren's Song
MOVIE • 1919
The Movies March On
MOVIE • 1939
45 Minutes from Hollywood
MOVIE • 1926
Salome
MOVIE • 1918
Her Double Life
MOVIE • 1916
Camille
MOVIE • 1917
The She Devil
MOVIE • 1918