Theda Bara Trailers
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films TrailerWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema TrailerThe Woman with the Hungry Eyes Trailer
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films TrailerWhy Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema TrailerThe Woman with the Hungry Eyes Trailer
Total trailers found: 50
10 September 1916
Mary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the father made a pass at her.
02 April 1917
Vere Herbert lives with her wicked mother, Lady Dolly (Marie Curtis), who is living in sin with Lord Jura (Glen White).
01 June 1919
Theda Bara plays Princess Zara, who lives on a South Sea Island. A handsome young missionary (William B.
22 January 1917
This film is a very loose film adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo and presumed lost: The wealthy girl Esmeralda is kidnapped by gypsies at birth and becomes, as one might assume, the darling of Paris.
21 May 1917
Desperate to change her vixenish image, Theda Bara was called upon to play a sweet young thing (she was nearly 30) who sacrifices herself for the happiness of her sister (Claire Whitney).
21 April 1918
Theda Bara plays a Javanese priestess who elopes with an English military officer (Hugh Thompson). Bara's Bavahari becomes a celebrated dancer but is murdered onstage by a vengeful Buddhist priest (Victor Kennard).
30 September 1917
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hopes of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover.
12 January 1919
Theda Bara does her usual vamp turn in this picture, but this time she's a vamp who turns out to have a heart of gold.
28 September 1918
Lilian is engaged to an older man in poor health when she meets his son Michael, whom she falls for. Due to a misunderstanding between the two, Lilian leaves after her fiance's death.
31 July 1916
The Legion's mascot, Cigarette falls for an Englishman, Bertie Cecil (Herbert Heyes), and when he is sentenced to a firing squad, she heroically takes the bullet herself.
23 May 2007
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing.
17 July 1914
An ambitious bank teller (Edward Jose) steals a large deposit and starts life over under an assumed name.
10 November 1918
Lolette an exotic and spirited peasant girl lives In the small Spanish village of Juanguera . Although ardently courted by the native swains, and particularly a bandit called The Tiger, Lolette prefers Maurice Tabor, a French artist who has come to Juanguera to paint.
03 April 2011
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film.
12 January 1915
John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come along with him.
09 July 1918
As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez (Nye), he starts an insurrection among the native Filipinos.
20 May 2006
The true story of the life of the movies first femme-fatale, Theda Bara, who made over 40 films, only a handful of which survive.
03 July 1939
A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date.
03 December 1916
In this lost film, Theda Bara took the role of spoiled, deceiving nymphomaniac "vixen" Elsie Drummond.
01 January 1933
Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915.
28 November 1915
Francesca Brabaut, who married an artist against her father's advice, regrets her decision when her husband Antoine, in debt, sends her to his misanthropic uncle to plead for money.
01 November 1915
A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her leads to his ruin.
04 August 1915
Florid melodrama of misunderstandings, betrayal and desperation as Theda schemes to keep the title secret.
26 December 1915
Fernande marries a man and schemes to get his wealth when his expected death occurs. But he dies before he can change his will.
03 October 1915
Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.
18 February 1917
Theda Bara's vamping is at its most evil here. She plays the Russian Princess Petrovitch, who loves only her pearls.
01 March 1915
Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914).
03 February 1918
Mary Lynde (Theda Bara) is an innocent girl who has grown up in New York's Greenwich Village. One of the artists there, Felix Benavente (Sidney Mason), uses her as model when he paints a portrait of the Madonna for a church.
21 September 1919
In this film, her next-to-last picture for Fox, it was Theda Bara's turn to tackle a double role. Bara's characters are twin sisters La Belle Russe, the wicked one, and Fleurette, the nice one.
12 April 1915
This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the cast.
03 May 1919
Marie Bernais, a Breton village girl, possesses a wonderful voice which her father believes is a gift from the devil.
05 September 1915
This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. Ths
04 November 1917
Lisza Tapenko (Bara) is governess in the household of Prince Arbasoff (Charles Clary). After the death of his wife, Lisza and he become involved, but because of the difference in social station he refuses to marry her.
26 December 1926
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
19 August 1919
Kathleen, the daughter of a poor tenant farmer, dreams of her wedding with her beloved Terrence. The dream is interrupted when the Squire of the estate takes an interest in Kathleen and forces her father to allow him to marry her to forgive the father's debt.
15 November 1925
When she goes to tell her husband Hubert that she is expecting a child, Caroline Knollys finds him in the arms of another woman.
01 January 1995
An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's most interesting stars, legends, and wannabes, and takes readers inside Hollywood's inner sanctum to show how casting decisions are made, who makes them, and who has the final word.
16 June 1915
When her lover deserts her, Gioconda Dianti seeks revenge by wrecking the lives of other men. When famous sculptor Lucio Settala meets her and asks her to pose for him, she sets out to ruin him.
13 March 1916
The daughter of a Mexican aristocrat endures the travails of the Mexican revolution.
12 March 1926
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it.
23 January 1916
Peasant girl Vania is assaulted by a duke who murders her lover and sends her away to London.
14 October 1917
The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony.
16 November 1919
Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness.
18 June 1916
An adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady Isabel Carlisle cast in a modern setting.
06 May 1916
A scheme by a beautiful vamp to marry a wealthy young man fails, and the woman returns to her former lover, a sculptor.
21 October 1916
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families.
30 December 1917
After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entre to the royal court.
10 August 1918
Palestine, under the rule of Rome. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both niece and stepdaughter of King Herod, becomes infatuated with the prophet John the Baptist, who publicly denounces the depravity of the royal family and proclaims the arrival of a new messiah.
09 March 1919
A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover.