Theda Bara
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.
Filmography
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
as Herself (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
as Self (archive footage)
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
2006
as Archival Footage
The Casting Couch
1995
The Movies March On
1939
as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
The Film Parade
1933
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stars of Yesterday
1931
as Self
45 Minutes from Hollywood
1926
as Herself
Madame Mystery
1926
as Madame Mysterieux
The Unchastened Woman
1925
as Caroline Knollys
Lure of Ambition
1919
as Olga Dolan
La belle Russe
1919
as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
Kathleen Mavourneen
1919
as Kathleen Mavourneen
A Woman There Was
1919
as Princess Zara
The Siren's Song
1919
as Marie Bernais
When Men Desire
1919
as Marie Lohr
The Light
1919
as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
The She Devil
1918
as Lolette
When a Woman Sins
1918
as Lilian Marchard / Poppea
Salome
1918
as Salome
Under the Yoke
1918
as Maria Valverda
The Soul of Buddha
1918
as Bava
The Forbidden Path
1918
as Mary Lynde
Madame du Barry
1917
as Madame du Barry