Theda Bara
Born: 1885-07-28
Birthplace: 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.
Known For
A Fool There Was
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
The Unchastened Woman
The Rose Of Blood
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Madame du Barry
Cleopatra
Destruction
The Film Parade
Top Movie Credits
A Fool There Was
The Vampire
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
The Unchastened Woman
Caroline Knollys
The Rose Of Blood
Lisza Tapenka
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Herself
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Herself (archive footage)
Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
Destruction
Ferdinande Martin
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)