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.
Known For
Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen
Helen Talboys
Lady Audley's Secret
Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
La belle Russe
La Gioconda
The Devil's Daughter
Iza
The Clemenceau Case
Henriette
The Two Orphans
Juliet DeCordova
Gold and the Woman
Mary Doone
Her Double Life
Mary Lynde
The Forbidden Path
Marguerite Gautier
Camille
Princess Petrovitch
The Tiger Woman
Jess
Heart and Soul
Vera Herbert
Her Greatest Love
Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
The Light
Olga Dolan
Lure of Ambition
The Vampire
A Fool There Was
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
Herself
45 Minutes from Hollywood
Salome
Salome
Self
Stars of Yesterday
Caroline Knollys
The Unchastened Woman
Lady Isabel Carlisle
East Lynne
Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
Herself (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Esmeralda
The Darling of Paris
Lolette
The She Devil
Laura Bruffins
The Eternal Sapho
Princess Zara
A Woman There Was
Elsie Drummond
The Vixen
Madame Mysterieux
Madame Mystery
Carmen
Carmen
Marie Bernais
The Siren's Song
Marie Lohr
When Men Desire
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The Film Parade
Lilian Marchard / Poppea
When a Woman Sins
Lisza Tapenka
The Rose Of Blood
Maria Valverda
Under the Yoke
Madame du Barry
Madame du Barry
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Ferdinande Martin
Destruction
Cigarette
Under Two Flags
Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
The Movies March On
Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)
The Stain
Rosa
Sin
Bava
The Soul of Buddha
Archival Footage
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
Vania Lazar
The Serpent
Francesca Brabaut
The Galley Slave
Celia Friedlander
Kreutzer Sonata
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
49
Gender
Female
Birthday
1885-07-28
Place of Birth
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Also Known As
Theodosia Burr Goodman