Theda Bara
Gender: Female
Birthday: 1885-07-28 - 1955-04-07
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Also Known As: Theodosia Burr Goodman, Theodosia Goodman, Theo DeCoppet
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.
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Known For
1915A Fool There Was
1995The Casting Couch
2007Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
1919Kathleen Mavourneen
1917Cleopatra
1915Sin
1916Gold and the Woman
2011Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
1919The Siren's Song
1919A Woman There Was
1916The Vixen
1915Destruction
1918When a Woman Sins
1915Kreutzer Sonata
2006The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
1917The Darling of Paris
1933The Film Parade
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