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Theda Bara
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| Nickname: | Theo |
| Known for: | Cleopatra, The Unchastened Woman, Madame Mystery |
| Birth name: | Theodosia Burr Goodman |
| Birthday: | 29 July 1885, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| Height: | 5' 6" (1.68 m) |
| Available Photos | 15 |
| Wallpapers | 3 |
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Trivia
Screen and stage actress.
Made film debut in 'Two Orphans, The' (1915)
She was the first to utter the now famous but often misquoted line, "Kiss me, my fool."
The role of the vamp in A Fool There Was, which made Theda Bara famous overnight, was created on Broadway in 1910 by Katharine Kaelred.
Sister of actress/writer Lori Bara.
Pictured on one of ten 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating stars of the silent screen, issued 27 April 1994. Designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, this set of stamps also honored Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, Charles Chaplin, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Zasu Pitts, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and the Keystone Kops.
For a time, she became a victim of her own screen image. Making movies at a time when audiences thought that the character that the actor played was the person that they were in real life she often found herself ostracised publicly. Late in her career she would tell stories of being refused service in restaurants and one nurse's refusal to admit her husband into the hospital after an accident because the woman thought that she had caused it. Many of these stories were greatly exaggerated (mostly by Bera herself) but she told them to establish the kind of perception that she had given the public.
Her screen persona was an exotic foreign beauty who was the ultimate "vamp" who would go through men like a shark. In reality, she was born in Ohio. Those who knew her claimed that she was a quiet, reserved woman that would be more likely found in a bookstore rather than a Hollywood nightclub. In the early 1920s, she married director Charles Brabin. This marriage ended in the mid-1950s when she succumbed to cancer.
As a marketing ploy for Cleopatra (1917) Bara claimed to have the same astrological sign as the real Cleopatra. That is incorrect, as Cleopatra was a Capricorn and Bara was a Leo.
Most of her films were unfortunately lost to a fire at Fox Studios.
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