Theda Bara
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1885-07-28
Locus Natus: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Et ut: Theodosia Burr Goodman, Theodosia Goodman, Theo DeCoppet
Kathleen Mavourneen
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...
release : 1919.08.19popularis : 0.928
The Devil's Daughter
"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...
release : 1915.06.16popularis : 2.213
Lady Audley's Secret
Florid melodrama of misunderstandings, betrayal and desperation as Theda schemes to keep the title secret.
release : 1915.08.04popularis : 2.461
The Two Orphans
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...
release : 1915.09.05popularis : 3.997
The Clemenceau Case
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...
release : 1915.04.12popularis : 2.001
Gold and the Woman
The daughter of a Mexican aristocrat endures the travails of the Mexican revolution.
release : 1916.03.13popularis : 0.806
La belle Russe
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,...
release : 1919.09.21popularis : 1.158
Her Double Life
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...
release : 1916.09.10popularis : 2.754
The Tiger Woman
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....
release : 1917.02.18popularis : 4.542
Her Greatest Love
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...
release : 1917.04.02popularis : 1.24
Heart and Soul
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...
release : 1917.05.21popularis : 2.807
Camille
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...
release : 1917.09.30popularis : 0.885
The Forbidden Path
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...
release : 1918.02.03popularis : 2.526
The Light
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...
release : 1919.01.12popularis : 0.497
Lure of Ambition
Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness. Sadly, Bara, who...
release : 1919.11.16popularis : 2.661
A Fool There Was
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...
release : 1915.01.12popularis : 6.333
Cleopatra
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.
release : 1917.10.14popularis : 9.15
45 Minutes from Hollywood
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.
release : 1926.12.26popularis : 1.861
Salome
Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet...
release : 1918.08.10popularis : 4.85
Stars of Yesterday
Stars of Yesterday documentary film.
release : 1931.12.31popularis : 1.494
The Unchastened Woman
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...
release : 1925.11.15popularis : 2.264
East Lynne
An adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady Isabel Carlisle cast in a modern setting.
release : 1916.06.18popularis : 4.493
The Casting Couch
An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and...
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 3.79
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families.
release : 1916.10.21popularis : 1.216
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
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...
release : 2011.04.03popularis : 3.716
The Darling of Paris
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...
release : 1917.01.22popularis : 1.704
The She Devil
Lolette an exotic and spirited peasant girl lives In the small Spanish village of Juanguera . Although ardently courted by the native swains, and...
release : 1918.11.10popularis : 0.696
The Eternal Sapho
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...
release : 1916.05.06popularis : 0.505
A Woman There Was
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,...
release : 1919.06.01popularis : 0.972
The Vixen
In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond. She wooed Wall Street businessman Martin...
release : 1916.12.03popularis : 1.842
Madame Mystery
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...
release : 1926.03.12popularis : 1.9
Carmen
A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her leads to his ruin.
release : 1915.11.01popularis : 1.04
The Siren's Song
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...
release : 1919.05.03popularis : 0.857
When Men Desire
A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover.
release : 1919.03.09popularis : 2.566
The Film Parade
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...
release : 1933.01.01popularis : 1.746
When a Woman Sins
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,...
release : 1918.09.28popularis : 1.876
The Rose Of Blood
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...
release : 1917.11.04popularis : 2.271
Under the Yoke
As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez (Nye), he starts an insurrection among the...
release : 1918.07.09popularis : 2.015
Madame du Barry
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...
release : 1917.12.30popularis : 1.792
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
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...
release : 2007.05.23popularis : 8.644
The Love Goddesses
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry...
release : 1965.03.03popularis : 6.832
Destruction
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...
release : 1915.12.26popularis : 1.905
Under Two Flags
The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is sentenced to a firing squad, she heroically...
release : 1916.07.31popularis : 1.223
The Movies March On
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...
release : 1939.07.03popularis : 3.293
The Stain
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...
release : 1914.07.17popularis : 2.505
Sin
Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.
release : 1915.10.03popularis : 0.353
The Soul of Buddha
Theda Bara plays a Javanese priestess who elopes with an English military officer (Hugh Thompson). Bara's Bavahari becomes a celebrated dancer but...
release : 1918.04.21popularis : 2.4
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
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,...
release : 2006.05.20popularis : 0.785
The Serpent
Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.
release : 1916.01.23popularis : 1.48
The Galley Slave
Francesca Brabaut, who married an artist against her father's advice, regrets her decision when her husband Antoine, in debt, sends her to his...
release : 1915.11.28popularis : 2.47
Kreutzer Sonata
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...
release : 1915.03.01popularis : 0.922