Theda Bara

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.

Cast

Kathleen Mavourneen

(Kathleen Mavourneen)

La belle Russe

(Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe)

The Two Orphans

(Henriette)

The Devil's Daughter

(La Gioconda)

Gold and the Woman

(Juliet DeCordova)

Lady Audley's Secret

(Helen Talboys)

The Clemenceau Case

(Iza)

Her Double Life

(Mary Doone)

The Tiger Woman

(Princess Petrovitch)

Her Greatest Love

(Vera Herbert)

Lure of Ambition

(Olga Dolan)

The Light

(Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne)

Camille

(Marguerite Gautier)

Heart and Soul

(Jess)

The Forbidden Path

(Mary Lynde)

A Fool There Was

(The Vampire)

Cleopatra

(Cleopatra)

45 Minutes from Hollywood

(Herself)

Salome

(Salome)

Stars of Yesterday

(Self)

The Unchastened Woman

(Caroline Knollys)

East Lynne

(Lady Isabel Carlisle)

Romeo and Juliet

(Juliet)

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

(Herself (archive footage))

The Darling of Paris

(Esmeralda)

The Eternal Sapho

(Laura Bruffins)

The She Devil

(Lolette)

A Woman There Was

(Princess Zara)

The Vixen

(Elsie Drummond)

Madame Mystery

(Madame Mysterieux)

Carmen

(Carmen)

The Siren's Song

(Marie Bernais)

When Men Desire

(Marie Lohr)

The Film Parade

((archive footage) (uncredited))

When a Woman Sins

(Lilian Marchard / Poppea)

The Rose Of Blood

(Lisza Tapenka)

Under the Yoke

(Maria Valverda)

Madame du Barry

(Madame du Barry)

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

(Self (archive footage))

Destruction

(Ferdinande Martin)

Under Two Flags

(Cigarette)

The Movies March On

(Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage))

The Stain

(Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman))

Sin

(Rosa)

The Soul of Buddha

(Bava)

The Woman with the Hungry Eyes

(Archival Footage)

The Serpent

(Vania Lazar)

The Galley Slave

(Francesca Brabaut)

Kreutzer Sonata

(Celia Friedlander)