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Theda Bara (/ ˈ θ iː d ə ˈ b ær ə / THEE-də BARR-ə; [1] born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) 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.
NP Charles Brabin (1882–1957), British-born director and screenwriter, husband of actress Theda Bara; Robert N. Bradbury (1886–1949), director and screenwriter, father of Bob Steele; NP Grace Bradley (1913–2010), actress, widow of actor William Boyd; Lenny Breau (1941–1984), musician (unmarked grave) [26] Edmund Breese (1871–1936), actor
Negri, with Theda Bara and Mae Murray, were the actresses whose eyes were combined to form the Chicago International Film Festival's logo, a stark, black and white close up of the composite eyes set as repeated frames in a strip of film. It was created by Festival Founder and Artistic Director Michael Kutza.
A Fool There Was is one of the few Theda Bara films in existence, with copies at the Museum of Modern Art, BFI National Archive, and other film archives. [16] The other surviving Bara films are The Stain (1914), East Lynne (1916), The Unchastened Woman (1925), and two short comedies that she made for Hal Roach in the mid-1920s.
The movie was based on H. Rider Haggard's novel and the plays by Émile Moreau, Victorien Sardou, and William Shakespeare. Theda Bara starred in the title role, Fritz Leiber, Sr. as Julius Caesar, and Thurston Hall played Mark Antony. After the Hays Code was implemented in Hollywood, Cleopatra was judged too obscene to be shown.
Nita Naldi was born in a tenement in New York City to working class Irish parents, Julia (née Cronin) and Patrick Dooley, in 1894. [2] [5] Four of her siblings died in infancy, with only her younger brother, Daniel Aloysius, surviving to adulthood.
West wanted an insert shot of Theda Bara’s star on the Walk of Fame as a nod to Pearl’s pet gator, and, magically, it was just steps from the Déjà Vu. Kevin Bacon, playing one of “MaXXXine ...
The Darling of Paris is a 1917 American silent romantic drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara and Glen White. It was a very loose film adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo. It was produced by William Fox.