Theda Bara
Known for ActingBorn 1885-07-28 — died 1955-04-07Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman, July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.
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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
The Casting Couch
1995
Destruction
1915 · as Ferdinande Martin
A Fool There Was
1915 · as The Vampire
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007 · as Self (archive footage)
The Vixen
1916 · as Elsie Drummond
Cleopatra
1917 · as Cleopatra
The Soul of Buddha
1918 · as Bava
Sin
1915 · as Rosa
Kathleen Mavourneen
1919 · as Kathleen Mavourneen
45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926 · as Herself
The Darling of Paris
1917 · as Esmeralda
Kreutzer Sonata
1915 · as Celia Friedlander
The Unchastened Woman
1925 · as Caroline Knollys
Gold and the Woman
1916 · as Juliet DeCordova
Madame du Barry
1917 · as Madame du Barry
Salome
1918 · as Salome
The Two Orphans
1915 · as Henriette
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011 · as Herself (archive footage)