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.
Filmography
A Fool There Was
as The Vampire
45 Minutes from Hollywood
as Herself
The Unchastened Woman
as Caroline Knollys
Cleopatra
as Cleopatra
East Lynne
as Lady Isabel Carlisle
Madame Mystery
as Madame Mysterieux
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Kreutzer Sonata
as Celia Friedlander
The Clemenceau Case
as Iza
Her Greatest Love
as Vera Herbert
When a Woman Sins
as Lilian Marchard / Poppea
Destruction
as Ferdinande Martin
The Movies March On
as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
as Archival Footage
Kathleen Mavourneen
as Kathleen Mavourneen
The Tiger Woman
as Princess Petrovitch
Lure of Ambition
as Olga Dolan
The Light
as Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
Salome
as Salome