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

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.

Theda Bara’s Memoirs, Cedar Point Historical Museum, James Gayles, Aaron Gonzales The unpublished memoirs of silent film icon Theda Bara lie in wait at the University of Cincinnati Archives and ...

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. National Park ...

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.” ...

Theda Bara AKA “The Vamp” Mondadori via Getty Images Born Theodosia Burr Goodman, Theda Bara was a successful silent film and stage actress. She is identified as one of cinema’s first sex symbols, ...

Ever since silent film audiences swooned for Rudolph Valentino and the vamp Theda Bara, the movies have packed a sexual charge. But filmmakers have always had trouble dealing with sex head-on. While ...