Cincinnati’s first movie superstar – silent screen actress Theda Bara – will be celebrated with a panel discussion and rare film clips and photos at the Main Public Library of Cincinnati and ...

Theda Bara was not who she appeared to be. To silent film audiences a century ago, she was the first sex symbol of the silver screen, the sultry “vamp” with the dark, brooding eyes who ...

Century-old graffiti under the Lincoln Memorial may depict silent-film star Theda Bara, with a profile sketch and the word ...

E vidence of Bara’s film work is mostly nonexistent now, as prints of almost all of her 40 silent films were destroyed in a 1937 fire at the Fox storage facility. But her impact can’t be overstated ...

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.” ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook David Greenspan gives a wild ride of a performance in “On Set With Theda Bara,” and marionettes star in Vaclav Havel’s ...

Fox Film vamped up the identity of a simple tailor’s daughter to create the seductress in 1915’s A Fool There Was and made quite a ... How Theda Bara Became Silent Film's Supernatural Siren.

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.

Theda Bara was an actress in some of Hollywood's biggest silent movies, with her being active from 1908 to 1926, with her ...

“On Set with Theda Bara uses the mythology of the silent film star and anti-hero Theda Bara as a metaphor for queerness,” says playwright Joey Merlo. “I’m a lyrical playwright who loves ...

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.