A 23-second fragment of The Soul of Buddha was discovered in the documentary Theda Bara et William Fox (2001)
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Theda Bara
Theda Bara was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "the Vamp", later fueling the rising popularity in "vamp" roles based in exoticism and sexual domination.
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entertainment · American actress (1885–1955) · film actor · stage actor · actor · also Theda Bara, Bara
Born 29 July 1885 · Died 7 April 1955 · Q234615
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2023· 1 entry
40 seconds of additional footage from Cleopatra were found in a toy projector purchased on eBay by film researcher James Fennell
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2019· 1 entry
Aa were 43 seconds worth of surviving footage from Lure of Ambition (1919)
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1955· 4 entries
After a lengthy stay at California Lutheran Hospital in Los Angeles, Bara died of stomach cancer
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Died 1955-04-07.
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“To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.”
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“I will continue doing vampires as long as people sin.”
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1949· 1 entry
Producer Buddy DeSylva and Columbia Pictures expressed interest in making a movie of Bara's life, to star Betty Hutton, but the project never materialized
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1936· 1 entry
Appeared on Lux Radio Theatre during a broadcast version of The Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy
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1921· 1 entry
Made three more films before retiring from acting in 1926
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1920· 1 entry
Turned briefly to the stage, appearing on Broadway in The Blue Flame
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1919· 1 entry
Bara was unable to recapture her previous success
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1917· 1 entry
The Goodman family legally changed its surname to Bara
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1908· 1 entry
Made her Broadway debut the same year in The Devil
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1890· 1 entry
The family moved to Avondale, a Cincinnati suburb with a substantial Jewish community
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1885· 1 entry
Born 1885-07-29.
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