Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Female

Birthday

1885-07-28

Deathday

1955-04-07 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Also Known As

Theodosia Burr Goodman
Theodosia Goodman
Theo DeCoppet

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.

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Acting

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)

Writing

1918

The Soul of Buddha as Story