Theda Bara
July 28, 1885 (139 years old) in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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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- 2011 · Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Herself (archive footage)
- 2007 · Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2006 · The Woman with the Hungry Eyes as Archival Footage
- 1939 · The Movies March On as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
- 1933 · The Film Parade as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1931 · Stars of Yesterday as Self
- 1926 · 45 Minutes from Hollywood as Herself
- 1926 · Madame Mystery as Madame Mysterieux
- 1925 · The Unchastened Woman as Caroline Knollys
- 1919 · Lure of Ambition as Olga Dolan
- 1919 · La belle Russe as Fleurette Sackton / La Belle Russe
- 1919 · Kathleen Mavourneen as Kathleen Mavourneen
- 1919 · A Woman There Was as Princess Zara
- 1919 · The Siren's Song as Marie Bernais
- 1919 · When Men Desire as Marie Lohr
- 1919 · The Light as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
- 1918 · The She Devil as Lolette
- 1918 · When a Woman Sins as Lilian Marchard / Poppea
- 1918 · Salome as Salome
- 1918 · Under the Yoke as Maria Valverda
- 1918 · The Soul of Buddha as Bava
- 1918 · The Forbidden Path as Mary Lynde
- 1917 · Madame du Barry as Madame du Barry
- 1917 · The Rose Of Blood as Lisza Tapenka
- 1917 · Cleopatra as Cleopatra
- 1917 · Camille as Marguerite Gautier
- 1917 · Heart and Soul as Jess
- 1917 · Her Greatest Love as Vera Herbert
- 1917 · The Tiger Woman as Princess Petrovitch
- 1917 · The Darling of Paris as Esmeralda
- 1916 · The Vixen as Elsie Drummond
- 1916 · Romeo and Juliet as Juliet
- 1916 · Her Double Life as Mary Doone
- 1916 · Under Two Flags as Cigarette
- 1916 · East Lynne as Lady Isabel Carlisle
- 1916 · The Eternal Sapho as Laura Bruffins
- 1916 · Gold and the Woman as Juliet DeCordova
- 1916 · The Serpent as Vania Lazar
- 1915 · Destruction as Ferdinande Martin
- 1915 · The Galley Slave as Francesca Brabaut
- 1915 · Carmen as Carmen
- 1915 · Sin as Rosa
- 1915 · The Two Orphans as Henriette
- 1915 · Lady Audley's Secret as Helen Talboys
- 1915 · The Devil's Daughter as La Gioconda
- 1915 · The Clemenceau Case as Iza
- 1915 · Kreutzer Sonata as Celia Friedlander
- 1915 · A Fool There Was as The Vampire
- 1914 · The Stain as Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)