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Theda Bara (1885–1955)


According to the studio biography Theda Bara (anagram of "Arab Death") was born in the Sahara to a French artiste and his Egyptian concubine and possessed supernatural powers. In fact, her father was a Cincinnati tailor. By 1908 she appeared in Broadway's "The Devil" named Theodosia de Coppett... See full bio »

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Filmography

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1926 Madame Mystery (short)
Madame Mysterieux
 
1919 The Lure of Ambition
Olga Dolan
 
1919 La belle Russe
Fleurette Sackton/La Belle Russe
 
1919 Kathleen Mavourneen
Kathleen Mavourneen
 
1919 A Woman There Was
Princess Zara
 
1919 The Siren's Song
Marie Bernais
 
1919 When Men Desire
Marie Lohr
 
1919 The Light
Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
 
1918 The She Devil
Lolette
 
1918 When a Woman Sins
Lilian Marchard / Poppea
 
1918 Salome
Salome
 
1918 Under the Yoke
Maria Valverda
 
1918 The Soul of Buddha
Bava
 
1918 The Forbidden Path
Mary Lynde
 
1917 The Rose of Blood
Lisza Tapenka
 
1917 Heart and Soul
Jess
 
1917 Her Greatest Love
Vera Herbert
 
1917 The Tiger Woman
Princess Petrovitch
 
1917 The Darling of Paris
Esmaralda
 
1916 The Vixen
Elsie Drummond
 
1916 Her Double Life
Mary Doone
 
1916 Under Two Flags
Cigarette
 
1916 The Eternal Sappho
Laura Bruffins
 
1916 Gold and the Woman
Juliet DeCordova
 
1916 The Serpent
Vania Lazar
 
1915 Destruction
Ferdinande Martin
 
1915 The Galley Slave
Francesca Brabaut
 
1915/II Carmen
Carmen
 
1915 Sin
Rosa
 
1915 The Two Orphans
Henriette
 
1915 The Devil's Daughter
La Gioconda
 
1915 The Clemenceau Case
Iza
 
1915 Kreutzer Sonata
Celia Friedlander
 
1915 Siren of Hell
 
1914 The Stain
Gang Moll (as Theodosia Goodman)
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1918 The Soul of Buddha (story)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
1923 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 19 (documentary short)
Herself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (19 titles)
2012 Arena (TV series documentary)
 
2011 Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (TV documentary)
Herself
 
2009 The Many Faces of Cleopatra (video documentary)
Cleopatra
 
2006 The Woman with the Hungry Eyes (documentary)
 
1997 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1995 The Casting Couch (video documentary)
 
1995 Empire of the Censors (TV documentary)
Herself
 
1988 Hollywood Sex Symbols (video documentary short)
 
1980 Hollywood
 
1965 The Love Goddesses (documentary)
Herself
 
1963 Hollywood and the Stars (TV series)
 
1953 The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (TV movie)
 
1947 Flicker Flashbacks No. 2, Series 5 (documentary short)
Herself (uncredited)
 
1939 The Movies March On (documentary short)
Herself - From 'A Fool There Was'
 
1937 Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1937 Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (documentary short)
Herself
 
1933 March of the Movies
Herself, film clip (uncredited)
 
1931 Stars of Yesterday (documentary short)
Herself
 
1926 45 Minutes from Hollywood (short)
Herself (uncredited)
 

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Personal Details


Publicity Listings:

4 Print Biographies  | 1 Article  | 1 Magazine Cover Photo  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Theo DeCoppet | Theodosia Goodman

Height:

5' 6" (1.68 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

To understand those days, you must consider that people believed what they saw on the screen....Audiences thought the stars were the way they saw them. Why, women kicked my photographs as they went into the theaters where my pictures were playing, and once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me. See more »

Trivia:

Not only were critics of the opinion that Bara was miscast in "Kathleen Mavourneen," but Irish Hibernian societies were enraged that an actress of Jewish extraction was playing an Irish heroine and sent members to stone the theaters exhibiting it and set off stink bombs. See more »

Trademark:

She often played the role of a sexy, foul tempress whose beauty and dangerous allure led good-hearted men to their doom. See more »

Nickname:

The Vamp See more »

Star Sign:

Leo