Theda Bara The Queen of Vamps
In roughly 5 years she made almost 40 films, back to back. Most of them were lost to fires or what have you, but a few of them survived either in a complete form or fragments. For years I thought I would be able to see Cleopatra, but not too long ago a few seconds resurfaced.
The Stain (1914) her first role, which she denied for years.
A Fool There Was (1915)
East Lynne (1916)
Cleopatra (1917) fragment
Salome (1918) fragment
The Lure of Ambition (1919) fragment
The Unchastened Woman (1925) her comeback film!
Madame Mystery (1926)
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VAMP THEDA BARA
Throwing petals at her lover´s corpse. By 1925 she was already a has-been.
Queen of Vamps Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1915). So perverse was Bara´s role that she was simply but brutally named “The Vampire”. No cute name calling for this gal!
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Les Vampires (1915-16)
French silent crime serial film consisting of ten episodes, which vary greatly in length. Being roughly 7 hours long, it is considered one of the longest films ever made. It stars the gothic vamp MUSIDORA. Highly influential in shaping the vamp archetype and the femme fatale archtype in the following decade.