“It was a very bad movie,” he told Francois Truffaut. “The producers were always trying to break into the American market, so ...

In his spirit, Velas has hosted old-fashioned ice-cream socials, an Ides of March celebration and an annual séance series, at which silent-movie vamp Theda Bara recently showed up, in a rather ...

The diva. She’s a divine cantatrice and a villainous prima donna. The curator of Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial ...

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.

The unpublished memoirs of silent film icon Theda Bara lie in wait at the University of Cincinnati Archives and Rare Books Library. A new museum in Sandusky highlights the history of Cedar Point.

Roughly 30 seconds of footage from the long-lost 1917 film version of “Cleopatra” has been located. Frame enlargements from the film, which starred Theda Bara as the Egyptian queen, were ...

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.

The Brief. 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.

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

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.” ...