Theda Bara

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.

  • Title: Theda Bara
  • Popularity: 1.874
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1885-07-28
  • Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
  • Homepage:
  • Also Known As: Theodosia Burr Goodman, Theodosia Goodman, Theo DeCoppet
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Theda Bara Movies

  • 1919
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    Kathleen Mavourneen

    Kathleen Mavourneen

    1 1919 HD

    Kathleen, the daughter of a poor tenant farmer, dreams of her wedding with her beloved Terrence. The dream is interrupted when the Squire of the...

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  • 1915
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    Lady Audley's Secret

    Lady Audley's Secret

    1 1915 HD

    Florid melodrama of misunderstandings, betrayal and desperation as Theda schemes to keep the title secret.

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  • 1919
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    La belle Russe

    La belle Russe

    1 1919 HD

    In this film, her next-to-last picture for Fox, it was Theda Bara's turn to tackle a double role. Bara's characters are twin sisters La Belle Russe,...

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  • 1915
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    The Devil's Daughter

    The Devil's Daughter

    1 1915 HD

    "My heart is ice, my passion consuming fire. Let men beware," exclaimed Theda Bara (via an inter-title, of course) in this "Vamp" melodrama based on...

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  • 1915
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    The Clemenceau Case

    The Clemenceau Case

    1 1915 HD

    This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the cast. Based on the...

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  • 1915
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    The Two Orphans

    The Two Orphans

    1 1915 HD

    This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. This version, made by the Fox Studios, stars famous...

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  • 1916
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    Gold and the Woman

    Gold and the Woman

    1 1916 HD

    The daughter of a Mexican aristocrat endures the travails of the Mexican revolution.

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  • 1916
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    Her Double Life

    Her Double Life

    1 1916 HD

    Mary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the father made a pass at her. She lives at a parish...

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  • 1918
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    The Forbidden Path

    The Forbidden Path

    1 1918 HD

    Mary Lynde (Theda Bara) is an innocent girl who has grown up in New York's Greenwich Village. One of the artists there, Felix Benavente (Sidney...

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  • 1917
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    Camille

    Camille

    1 1917 HD

    Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...

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  • 1917
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    The Tiger Woman

    The Tiger Woman

    5 1917 HD

    Theda Bara's vamping is at its most evil here. She plays the Russian Princess Petrovitch, who loves only her pearls. Her husband, the Prince (E.F....

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  • 1917
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    Heart and Soul

    Heart and Soul

    1 1917 HD

    Desperate to change her vixenish image, Theda Bara was called upon to play a sweet young thing (she was nearly 30) who sacrifices herself for the...

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  • 1917
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    Her Greatest Love

    Her Greatest Love

    1 1917 HD

    Vere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord Jura (Glen White). Although Vere is in love with...

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  • 1919
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    The Light

    The Light

    1 1919 HD

    Theda Bara does her usual vamp turn in this picture, but this time she's a vamp who turns out to have a heart of gold. Her character, Blanchette...

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  • 1919
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    Lure of Ambition

    Lure of Ambition

    1 1919 HD

    Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness. Sadly, Bara, who...

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  • 1915
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    A Fool There Was

    A Fool There Was

    5.217 1915 HD

    John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come...

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  • 1917
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    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    4.2 1917 HD

    The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony. Only a...

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  • 1926
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    45 Minutes from Hollywood

    45 Minutes from Hollywood

    5 1926 HD

    A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.

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  • 1918
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    Salome

    Salome

    7 1918 HD

    Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet...

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  • 1931
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    Stars of Yesterday

    Stars of Yesterday

    1 1931 HD

    Stars of Yesterday documentary film.

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  • 1925
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    The Unchastened Woman

    The Unchastened Woman

    5.3 1925 HD

    When she goes to tell her husband Hubert that she is expecting a child, Caroline Knollys finds him in the arms of another woman. Caroline leaves him...

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  • 1916
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    East Lynne

    East Lynne

    4.6 1916 HD

    An adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady Isabel Carlisle cast in a modern setting.

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    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    1 1916 HD

    Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families.

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  • 2011
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    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    9 2011 HD

    Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

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  • 1917
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    The Darling of Paris

    The Darling of Paris

    1 1917 HD

    This film is a very loose film adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo and presumed lost: The wealthy girl Esmeralda...

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  • 1918
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    The She Devil

    The She Devil

    1 1918 HD

    Lolette an exotic and spirited peasant girl lives In the small Spanish village of Juanguera . Although ardently courted by the native swains, and...

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  • 1916
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    The Eternal Sapho

    The Eternal Sapho

    1 1916 HD

    A scheme by a beautiful vamp to marry a wealthy young man fails, and the woman returns to her former lover, a sculptor. She is shocked to discover he...

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  • 1919
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    A Woman There Was

    A Woman There Was

    1 1919 HD

    Theda Bara plays Princess Zara, who lives on a South Sea Island. A handsome young missionary (William B. Davidson) arrives and there is a romance,...

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  • 1916
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    The Vixen

    The Vixen

    1 1916 HD

    In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond. She wooed Wall Street businessman Martin...

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  • 1926
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    Madame Mystery

    Madame Mystery

    5.6 1926 HD

    A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They...

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  • 1915
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    Carmen

    Carmen

    6 1915 HD

    A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her leads to his ruin.

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  • 1919
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    The Siren's Song

    The Siren's Song

    1 1919 HD

    Marie Bernais, a Breton village girl, possesses a wonderful voice which her father believes is a gift from the devil. Raoul Nieppe loves her, but...

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  • 1919
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    When Men Desire

    When Men Desire

    1 1919 HD

    A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover.

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  • 1933
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    The Film Parade

    The Film Parade

    1 1933 HD

    Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a...

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  • 1918
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    When a Woman Sins

    When a Woman Sins

    1 1918 HD

    Lilian is engaged to an older man in poor health when she meets his son Michael, whom she falls for. Due to a misunderstanding between the two,...

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  • 1917
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    The Rose Of Blood

    The Rose Of Blood

    1 1917 HD

    Lisza Tapenko (Bara) is governess in the household of Prince Arbasoff (Charles Clary). After the death of his wife, Lisza and he become involved, but...

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  • 1918
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    Under the Yoke

    Under the Yoke

    1 1918 HD

    As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez (Nye), he starts an insurrection among the...

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  • 1917
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    Madame du Barry

    Madame du Barry

    7 1917 HD

    After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entre to the royal...

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  • 2007
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    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    4.9 2007 HD

    Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

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  • 1915
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    Destruction

    Destruction

    1 1915 HD

    Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies before he can change his will. She next tries to...

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  • 1916
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    Under Two Flags

    Under Two Flags

    1 1916 HD

    The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is sentenced to a firing squad, she heroically...

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  • 1939
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    The Movies March On

    The Movies March On

    3.5 1939 HD

    A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the...

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  • 1914
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    The Stain

    The Stain

    1 1914 HD

    An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed name. While he is becoming a lawyer and making...

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  • 1915
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    Sin

    Sin

    1 1915 HD

    Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.

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  • 1918
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    The Soul of Buddha

    The Soul of Buddha

    1 1918 HD

    Theda Bara plays a Javanese priestess who elopes with an English military officer (Hugh Thompson). Bara's Bavahari becomes a celebrated dancer but...

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  • 2006
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    The Woman with the Hungry Eyes

    The Woman with the Hungry Eyes

    6 2006 HD

    The true story of the life of the movies first femme-fatale, Theda Bara, who made over 40 films, only a handful of which survive. Born in America,...

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  • 1916
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    The Serpent

    The Serpent

    1 1916 HD

    Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.

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  • 1915
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    The Galley Slave

    The Galley Slave

    1 1915 HD

    Francesca Brabaut, who married an artist against her father's advice, regrets her decision when her husband Antoine, in debt, sends her to his...

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    Kreutzer Sonata

    Kreutzer Sonata

    3.5 1915 HD

    Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the...

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  • 1918
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    The Soul of Buddha

    The Soul of Buddha

    1 1918 HD

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