Movies: Theda Bara

  • 2011
    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

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    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 All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips fr...

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
  • 1915
    The Two Orphans

    The Two Orphans (1915)

    The Two Orphans

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    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 "vamp" actress Theda Bara in the role that Lillian Gish later made famous...

    The Two Orphans
  • 1919
    When Men Desire

    When Men Desire (1919)

    When Men Desire

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    A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover....

    When Men Desire
  • 1916
    Gold and the Woman

    Gold and the Woman (1916)

    Gold and the Woman

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    The daughter of a Mexican aristocrat endures the travails of the Mexican revolution....

    Gold and the Woman
  • 1916
    Under Two Flags

    Under Two Flags (1916)

    Under Two Flags

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    The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is sentenced to a firing squad, she heroically takes the bullet herself....

    Under Two Flags
  • 1925
    The Unchastened Woman

    The Unchastened Woman (1925)

    The Unchastened Woman

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    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 and, not telling him of her pregnancy, runs off to Europe where she has her child and becomes the toa...

    The Unchastened Woman
  • 1933
    The Film Parade

    The Film Parade (1933)

    The Film Parade

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    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 52-minute feature called The Film Parade that was shown in New York and favorably reviewed by "Variety" i...

    The Film Parade
  • 1915
    The Devil's Daughter

    The Devil's Daughter (1915)

    The Devil's Daughter

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    When her lover deserts her, Gioconda Dianti seeks revenge by wrecking the lives of other men. When famous sculptor Lucio Settala meets her and asks her to pose for him, she sets out to ruin him. She captivates the artist with her charms, and he soon ...

    The Devil's Daughter
  • 1919
    La belle Russe

    La belle Russe (1919)

    La belle Russe

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    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, the wicked one, and Fleurette, the nice one. They're Parisian dancers, and Fleurette marries Philip S...

    La belle Russe
  • 1915
    The Galley Slave

    The Galley Slave (1915)

    The Galley Slave

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    Francesca Brabaut, who married an artist against her father's advice, regrets her decision when her husband Antoine, in debt, sends her to his misanthropic uncle to plead for money....

    The Galley Slave
  • 1916
    The Vixen

    The Vixen (1916)

    The Vixen

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    In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond. She wooed Wall Street businessman Martin Stevens (A. H. Van Buren) away from his interest in her sweet sister Helen (Mary G. Martin). She continue...

    The Vixen
  • 1919
    Lure of Ambition

    Lure of Ambition (1919)

    Lure of Ambition

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    Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness. Sadly, Bara, who had more or less single-handedly begun the "vamp" craze with the prototype of the genre, A Fool There ...

    Lure of Ambition
  • 1926
    Madame Mystery

    Madame Mystery (1926)

    Madame Mystery

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    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 succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected....

    Madame Mystery
  • 1915
    Lady Audley's Secret

    Lady Audley's Secret (1915)

    Lady Audley's Secret

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    Florid melodrama of misunderstandings, betrayal and desperation as Theda schemes to keep the title secret....

    Lady Audley's Secret
  • 1915
    Kreutzer Sonata

    Kreutzer Sonata (1915)

    Kreutzer Sonata

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    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 sensational A Fool There Was (1914)....

    Kreutzer Sonata
  • 1918
    Under the Yoke

    Under the Yoke (1918)

    Under the Yoke

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    As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez (Nye), he starts an insurrection among the native Filipinos. Maria's father Don Ramon is killed and Maria is held hostage. She gets word to Capt. Pau...

    Under the Yoke
  • 1918
    The She Devil

    The She Devil (1918)

    The She Devil

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    Lolette an exotic and spirited peasant girl lives In the small Spanish village of Juanguera . Although ardently courted by the native swains, and particularly a bandit called The Tiger, Lolette prefers Maurice Tabor, a French artist who has come to J...

    The She Devil
  • 1919
    The Siren's Song

    The Siren's Song (1919)

    The Siren's Song

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    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 fears marrying below his social status, and his rejection results in a suicide attempt by Marie. She is ...

    The Siren's Song
  • 1917
    The Tiger Woman

    The Tiger Woman (1917)

    The Tiger Woman

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    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. Roseman), sells state secrets to a spy to pay her exorbitant bills, and her response is to report him t...

    The Tiger Woman
  • 1914
    The Stain

    The Stain (1914)

    The Stain

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    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 his way up the ladder of success with the help of a political boss, the wife he left behind (Eleanor Wo...

    The Stain