One subject that has always been popular in the movies -- and is likely to stay that way for a long time to come -- is...
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1965
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"Her Salome Will Steal Your Breath Away" was the classic advertising slogan attached to this opulent Rita Hayworth epic -- a...
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1953
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1910s screen vamp Theda Bara ended her film career at Hal Roach studios. Originally she had been signed to do a number of...
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1926
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The fetchingly underdressed Dorothy Mackaill plays the title role in The Dancer of Paris. Betrayed early on by the degenerate...
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1926
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Based on a play by Louis Anspacher, The Unchastened Woman starred Elsie Ferguson as the title character, aka Grace Valentine....
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1925
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Theda Bara's career began its downhill slide in earnest with this cheaply-made melodrama. As Marie Lohr, a German-American...
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1919
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Before he became world-famous for his sophisticated sex farces, Ernst Lubitsch was primarily a director of outsized German...
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1919
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By mid-1919, Theda Bara's career was on its downslide. The release of A Woman There Was all but killed it. This was a very...
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1919
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Theda Bara's career with Fox was near its end when Bara made this romantic melodrama. Marie Bernais (Bara) is no vamp --...
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1919
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The quaint Irish lass of Annie Crawford's poem and Dion Boucicault's stage play came to the screen for the second time in...
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1919
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In her swan song for Fox (the studio that had created the "vamp"), Theda Bara was rather less lethal than in her earlier,...
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1919
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In this Theda Bara spectacular, she plays one of history's most notorious vamps. Salome, a favorite of the Roman court, uses...
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1919
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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 (just about every star in...
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1919
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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...
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1919
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Theda Bara doesn't do much vamping in her follow-up to Salome. She is Lillian Marchard, nursemaid to the lecherous Mortimer...
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1918
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This Theda Bara drama was called a "Fox Standard," but it just as well could have been called a "Standard Bara," since it's...
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1918
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Obviously inspired by the then topical Mata Hari espionage case, this drama presented the screen's leading vixen, Theda Bara,...
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1918
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The Philippine revolution became the setting for yet another trivial Theda Bara potboiler in which the famous vamp played an...
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1918
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Lolette (Theda Bara) is a fiery young Spanish girl. When a painter, Maurice (Albert Roscoe), comes to her town in search of...
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1918
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One of Theda Bara's worst vehicles (and that said a lot!), this film was ostensibly based on Rider Haggard's Jess and was an...
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1917
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By 1917, Theda Bara had become one of the screen's biggest stars, and her fans had long been suggesting that she portray...
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Cleopatra
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1917
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In an unsuccessful attempt to break out of her vampire mold, Theda Bara plays a sweet young thing in this picture adapted...
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1917
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It didn't matter to the Fox studios that Mrs. Leslie Carter had already portrayed the mistress of Louis XV on screen two...
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1917
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The title character in Dumas' Camille is a Parisian courtesan, but the heroine is relatively sympathetic, especially when she...
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Marguerite Gauthier/Camille
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1917
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Theda Bara's next film after the blockbuster Cleopatra was this tale of the Russian revolution -- a timely subject, since the...
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1917
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You'd never know it from the title, but The Darling of Paris was a film version of Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame. The...
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1917
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1917
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After several non-vamp films, including East Lynne, Under Two Flags and -- of all things -- Romeo and Juliet, Theda Bara's...
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1916
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Written by Irish-born scenario writer Mary Murillo, Gold and the Woman was merely another Theda Bara "Vamp" melodrama about a...
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1916
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Raoul Walsh both wrote and directed this typically bosom-heaving Theda Bara melodrama about a Russian peasant girl who is...
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1916
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Mrs. Henry Wood's war-horse novel and play East Lynne has been filmed so often that we've lost count. This 1916 version was...
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1916
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Mary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the father made a pass at her....
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1916
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Desperately tired of playing man-eating "vamps," Theda Bara begged to play Ouida's 1901 Foreign Legion heroine, "Cigarette,"...
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1916
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Like virtually all of Theda Bara's starring vehicles, The Eternal Sappho is a lost film. Contemporary historians, however,...
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1916
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Theda Bara couldn't have gotten any farther away from her vamp roles than the part of Juliet in this silent adaptation of...
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1916
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1915
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1915
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1915
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Theda Bara attempted to tone down her lurid image with this already then-stale melodrama about a formerly respectable wife...
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1915
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Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as...
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1915
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"My heart is ice, my passion consuming fire. Let men beware," exclaimed Theda Bara (via an inter-title, of course) in this...
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1915
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Even though Paramount already had a production of Carmen in the works, producer William Fox forged right ahead with his own,...
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Carmen
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1915
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As overwrought and overacted as it appears today, this melodrama took America by storm in 1915. Its history actually goes a...
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1915
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That cinematic "vampire" Theda Bara played the wicked wife of a Pennsylvania foundry owner who not only kills her own stepson...
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1915
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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...
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1915
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