As a result, entire filmographies went up in flames, including most of Theda Bara’s, a silent film star who greatly contributed to the evolution of film as an art form.

Season 14, Episode 9. Season 14 Episode 9 | 29m 17s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Theda Bara’s Memoirs, Cedar Point Historical Museum, James Gayles, Aaron Gonzales. Aired 05/16/2025 ...

Inevitably, the best-known incarnation of her is Hollywood's: Theda Bara, Claudette Colbert, Elizabeth Taylor, telling us what fun it was to be filthy rich in the first century B.C., spending days ...

Mata Hari, as a guise, hinted back to the real-life performer accused of espionage, as well as the likes of vampy icons including Theda Bara and Marlene Dietrich. Colette in TIP Magazine, Berlin ...

Bara starred in A Fool There Was, a 1915 silent film based on a play inspired by Kipling’s poem. It was her breakout role and popularized Hollywood’s archetype of the femme fatale.

He also believes the specific Theda Bara portrait was drawn by “Bosco Johnny,” who signed his name near many of the sketches in the area. “The stuff he did was artwork,” Potter added.

Century-old graffiti under the Lincoln Memorial may depict silent-film star Theda Bara, with a profile sketch and the word "Vamp" found on the pillars in the basement. National Park Service ...

Forty-five feet below the iconic sculpture of the former president is the sketch of a woman suspected to be Theda Bara — a scandalous silent film star from the time of the Memorial’s construction.

The National Park Service theorizes that a century-old sketch made by a worker in the Lincoln Memorial’s undercroft depicts Theda Bara, silent film’s first “Vamp.” ...

MaXXXine has an odd connection to Theda Bara, and here is why her Hollywood Walk of Fame star appears in the film, how it ...

It predates proto-goth touchstones like Rocky Horror, the droning decadence of The Velvet Underground and Nico, silent-film vamp Theda Bara, the chilling fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen ...