Theda Bara


Real name: Theodosia Goodman

Birthdate: July 20, 1890

Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio

Died: April 7, 1955

Cause of Death: Abdominal Cancer

Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial, L.A California "Columbarium of Memory" niche 19565

Quick bio facts:
-When she became interested in making films, she started dying her blonde hair black.

-Theda was almost 30 years old when her film career began.

-Preachers all over the country regularly denounced her from their pulpits.

-In 1916, about half a million people watched her on movie screens everyday, the following year, one million people per day watched her.


-Was Hollywood's first and most well known "vamp".

-Wrote "What Women Never Tell", which remains to this day unpublished.

Books featuring or about Theda Bara

-Theda Bara: A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp (by Ronald Genini)
-Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara (by Eve Golden & Robert S. Birchard)

Quotes
"During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly large doses."

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