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{{Infobox person
| name = Theda Bara
| image = Thedarose.jpg
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| caption =
| birth_name = Theodosia Burr Goodman
| birth_date = {{birth date|1885|7|29|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1955|4|7|1885|7|29|mf=yes}}
| death_place = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], U.S.
| death_cause = [[Stomach cancer]]
| resting_place = [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale]]
| nationality = American
| education = [[Walnut Hills High School]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Cincinnati]]
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1908–1926
| spouse = [[Charles Brabin]] (1921–1955)
}}

'''Theda Bara''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|θ|iː|d|ə|_|ˈ|b|ær|ə}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBLHr4iwVM |title=Theda Bara Speaking 1936 |accessdate=7 January 2011}}</ref> {{respell|THEE|də}} {{respell|BARR|ə}}; born '''Theodosia Burr Goodman''', July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American [[silent film]] and stage actress.

Bara was one of the most popular actresses of the silent era, and one of cinema's earliest [[sex symbol]]s. Her ''[[femme fatale]]'' roles earned her the nickname '''The Vamp''' (short for [[vampire]]). Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most were [[Lost film|lost]] in the [[1937 Fox vault fire]]. After her marriage to [[Charles Brabin]] in 1921, she made two more feature films and retired from acting in 1926 having never appeared in a sound film. She died of [[stomach cancer]] on April 7, 1955, at the age of 69.

==Early life==
She was born '''Theodosia Burr Goodman''' in the Avondale section of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father was Bernard Goodman (1853–1936),<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |title=Theda makes 'em all Baras |url=https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9905E6DA113AE433A25754C1A9679D946696D6CF |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 17, 1917}}</ref> a prosperous [[Jews|Jewish]] tailor born in [[Polish people|Poland]]. Her mother, Pauline Louise Françoise (née de Coppett; 1861–1957), was born in Switzerland.<ref>{{cite book |author=Ronald Genini |title=Theda Bara: A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp, with a Filmography |publisher=McFarland |year=1996 |isbn=9780786491612 |page= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmwfPXTQNSwC&pg=PA1848&lpg=PA1848&dq=de+Coppet+%22Pauline+Louise+Fran%C3%A7oise%22&source=bl&ots=dwlumaMppD&sig=HOjk06qm0Nz84JfRdjBV-j_aCCw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Iq1jUoCBOuig4APy_oC4BA&redir_esc=y}}</ref> Bernard and Pauline married in 1882. She had two siblings: Marque (1888–1954)<ref>"Marque Bara", ''Newport Daily News'' (Newport, Rhode Island), April 26, 1954, p. 2.</ref> and Esther (1897–1965),<ref name="NYT"/> who also became a film actress as Lori Bara and married Francis W. Getty of London in 1920. She was named after the daughter of US Vice President [[Aaron Burr]].<ref>http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-dramatic-life-and-mysterious-death-of-theodosia-burr?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20161011&bt_ee=mFxOaRJwYDFtEL00zI/fLukZ+Vg6dybiZ4HUNaPDFEyL6qaY6m/001NDentavVNn&bt_ts=1476193645326</ref>

Bara attended [[Walnut Hills High School]] graduating in 1903. After attending the [[University of Cincinnati]] for two years, she worked mainly in theater productions, but did explore other projects. After moving to New York City in 1908, she made her Broadway debut in ''The Devil'' (1908).

==Career==
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Most of Bara's early films were shot around the East Coast, primarily at the [[Fox Studios]] in [[Fort Lee, New Jersey]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Fort Lee: Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry|publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fort+Lee:+Birthplace+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry&hl=nl&ei=_3m4Tby2GoGXOuDl4J0P&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|isbn=978-0-7385-4501-1}}</ref> Bara lived with her family in New York City during this time. The rise of Hollywood as the center of the American film industry forced her to relocate to Los Angeles to film the epic ''[[Cleopatra (1917 film)|Cleopatra]]'' (1917), which became one of Bara's biggest hits. [[Lost films|No known prints of ''Cleopatra'' exist today]], but numerous photographs of Bara in costume as the Queen of the Nile have survived.

Between 1915 and 1919, Bara was Fox studio's biggest star, but tired of being typecast as a vamp, she allowed her five-year contract with Fox to expire. Her final Fox film was ''The Lure of Ambition'' (1919). In 1920, she turned briefly to the stage, appearing on Broadway in ''[[The Blue Flame (play)|The Blue Flame]]''. Bara's fame drew large crowds to the theater, but her acting was savaged by critics.<ref>{{cite book |last=Golden |first=Eve |authorlink=Eve Golden |title=Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara |location=Vestal, New York |publisher=Emprise |year=1996 |isbn=1-887322-00-0 |oclc=34575681 |pages=204–209}}</ref> Her career suffered without Fox studio's support, and she did not make another film until ''The Unchastened Woman'' (1925) for Chadwick Pictures Corporation. Bara retired after making only one more film, the short comedy ''[[Madame Mystery]]'' (1926), made for [[Hal Roach]] and directed by [[Stan Laurel]], in which she parodied her vamp image.

At the height of her fame, Bara earned $4,000 per week. She was one of the most popular movie stars, ranking behind only [[Charlie Chaplin]] and [[Mary Pickford]].<ref>http://oncotton.co.uk/starr/documents/THEDAprogramme&PDF.pdf {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901030944/http://oncotton.co.uk/starr/documents/THEDAprogramme&PDF.pdf |date=September 1, 2012 }}</ref> Bara's best-known roles were as the "vamp", although she attempted to avoid typecasting by playing wholesome heroines in films such as ''Under Two Flags'' and ''Her Double Life''. She also appeared as Juliet in a version of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. Although Bara took her craft seriously, she was too successful as an exotic "wanton woman" to develop a more versatile career.

===Image and name===
[[File:ThedaBara-Cleopatra.jpg|thumb|left|Bara in one of her famous risqué costumes, in ''Cleopatra'' (1917)]]
The origin of Bara's stage name is disputed; '' The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats'' says it came from director [[Frank Powell]], who learned Theda had a relative named Barranger, and that "Theda" was a childhood nickname. In promoting the 1917 film ''[[Cleopatra (1917 film)|Cleopatra]]'', Fox Studio publicists noted that the name was an anagram of ''Arab death'', and her press agents claimed inaccurately that she was "the daughter of an Arab sheik and a French woman, born in the Sahara."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/87424/Cleopatra/overview |title=Cleopatra (1917) |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=May 29, 2011}} Film review.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qYEtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WZkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7227,1426917&dq=arab-death+theda-bara&hl=en |title=Famous silent screen vamp Theda Bara dies of cancer |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The Montreal Gazette |date=April 8, 1955 |accessdate=May 29, 2011}}</ref> In 1917 the Goodman family legally changed its surname to ''Bara''.<ref name="NYT" />

Bara is often cited as the first [[sex symbol]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicimages.com/1996/july/theda.html |title=Classic Images – Vol. 250 – April 1996 Issue |publisher=Classicimages.com |date= |accessdate=2010-08-02}}</ref> of the movies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bombshells.com/gallery/bara/theda_gallery.php |title=Theda Bara Photo Gallery |publisher=Bombshells.com |date= |accessdate=2010-08-02}}</ref> She was well known for wearing very revealing costumes in her films. Such outfits were banned from Hollywood films after the [[Production Code]] started in 1930, and then was more strongly enforced in 1934.

It was popular at that time to promote an actress as mysterious, with an exotic background. The studios promoted Bara with a massive publicity campaign, billing her as the Egyptian-born daughter of a French actress and an Italian sculptor. They claimed she had spent her early years in the [[Sahara Desert]] under the shadow of the [[Sphinx]], then moved to France to become a stage actress. (In fact, Bara had never been to Egypt or France.) They called her the '''Serpent of the Nile''' and encouraged her to discuss mysticism and the occult in interviews. Some film historians point to this as the birth of two Hollywood phenomena: the studio publicity department and the press agent, which would later evolve into the public relations person.

==Marriage and retirement==
Bara married British-born American film director [[Charles Brabin]] in 1921. They honeymooned in Nova Scotia at [[Digby Pines Resort|The Pines Hotel]] in [[Digby, Nova Scotia]], and later purchased a {{convert|400|ha|acre}} property down the coast from Digby at [[Harbourville, Nova Scotia|Harbourville]] overlooking the Bay of Fundy, eventually building a summer home they called Baranook.<ref>{{cite news |author=Lorna Innis |url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/thenovascotian/67331-hollywood-s-link-province-long-varied |title=Hollywood's link with province long, varied |newspaper=Chronicle Herald |location=Halifax |date=February 26, 2012}}</ref> They had no children. Bara resided in a villa-style home, which served as the "honors villa" at [[Xavier University]] in Cincinnati, Ohio. Demolition of the home began in July 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wlwt.com/news/28472524/detail.html |accessdate=July 7, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406214701/http://www.wlwt.com/news/28472524/detail.html |archivedate=April 6, 2012 }}</ref>

In 1936, she appeared on ''[[Lux Radio Theatre]]'' during a broadcast version of ''The Thin Man'' with [[William Powell]] and [[Myrna Loy]]. She did not appear in the play but instead announced her plans to make a movie comeback,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/LuxRadioTheater360608TheThinMan |title=The Thin Man |website=Lux Radio Theatre |publisher=Internet Archive |accessdate=2015-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Lux+Radio+Theatre |title=The Lux Radio Theatre |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |accessdate=2015-12-01}}</ref> which never materialized. She appeared on radio again in 1939 as a guest on ''[[Texaco Star Theatre]]''. These may be the only recordings of her voice ever made.

In 1949, producer [[Buddy DeSylva]] and [[Columbia Pictures]] expressed interest in making a movie of Bara's life, to star [[Betty Hutton]], but the project never materialized.<ref>{{cite news |author=Thomas F. Brady |title=De Sylva Working on Movie of Bara |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 21, 1949 |page=25 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05E4D9123CE23BBC4951DFB7668382659EDE}}; {{cite news |author=Hedda Hopper |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 21, 1949 |page=L1}}; {{cite news |author=Hedda Hopper |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 23, 1949 |page=L1}}; {{cite news |author=Thomas F. Brady |title=Betty Hutton Set for 2 Metro Films |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 2, 1949 |page=36 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E06E5D61E3BE23BBC4A53DFB4678382659EDE}}</ref>

==Death==
[[File:Theda Bara Grave.JPG|thumb|Niche of Theda Bara, in the Great Mausoleum, Forest Lawn Glendale.]]
On April 7, 1955, Bara died of [[stomach cancer]] in Los Angeles, California. She was interred as Theda Bara Brabin in [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Glendale, California]].

==Legacy==
For her contribution to the film industry, Theda Bara has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]].

Bara is one of the most famous completely silent stars – she never appeared in a sound film, lost or otherwise. A 1937 fire at Fox's nitrate film storage vaults in New Jersey destroyed most of that studio's silent films. Bara made more than forty films between 1914 and 1926, but complete prints of only six still exist: ''[[The Stain (film)|The Stain]]'' (1914), ''[[A Fool There Was (1915 film)|A Fool There Was]]'' (1915), ''[[East Lynne (1916 film)|East Lynne]]'' (1916), ''[[The Unchastened Woman]]'' (1925), and two short comedies for [[Hal Roach]].

In addition to these, a few of her films remain in fragments including ''Cleopatra'' (just a few seconds of footage), a clip thought to be from ''The Soul of Buddha'', and a few other unidentified clips featured in a French documentary, ''Theda Bara et William Fox'' (2001). Most of the clips can be seen in the documentary ''The Woman with the Hungry Eyes'' (2006). As to vamping, critics stated that her portrayal of calculating, coldhearted women was morally instructive to men. Bara responded by saying, "I will continue doing vampires as long as people sin."<ref>{{cite book |title= Sexy Origins and Intimate Things: The Rites and Rituals of Straights, Gays, Bi's, Drags, Trans, Virgins, and Others|last=Panati |first=Charles |authorlink=Charles Panati |year=1998 |publisher=Penguin Books|page=295}}</ref>

In 1994, she was honored with her image on a [[List of people on stamps of the United States|United States postage stamp]] designed by caricaturist [[Al Hirschfeld]].

The Fort Lee Film Commission dedicated Main Street and Linwood Avenue in [[Fort Lee, New Jersey]], as "Theda Bara Way" in May 2006 to honor Bara, who made many of her films at the Fox Studio on Linwood and Main.

Owing to her film legacy as an assertive sexual woman, Theda Bara's name was adopted by [[fairies]] (homosexual men) in the 1910s. <ref>{{cite book|last1=Chauncey|first1=George|title=Gay New York : gender, urban culture, and the making of the gay male world, 1890-1940|date=1995|publisher=Basic Books|location=New York|isbn=0-465-02621-4|pages=51|edition=3. [print.].}}</ref>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Film
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1914
| ''[[The Stain (film)|The Stain]]''
| Gang moll
| Credited as Theodosia Goodman
|-
| 1915
| ''Siren of Hell''
|
| [[Lost film]]
|-
| 1915
| ''[[A Fool There Was (1915 film)|A Fool There Was]]''
| The Vampire
|
|-
| 1915
| ''[[The Kreutzer Sonata (1915 film)|The Kreutzer Sonata]]''
| Celia Friedlander
| Lost film
|-
| 1915
| ''[[The Clemenceau Case]]''
| Iza
| Lost film
|-
| 1915
| ''[[The Devil's Daughter (1915 film)|The Devil's Daughter]]''
| La Gioconda
| Lost film
|-
| 1915
| ''[[Lady Audley's Secret (film)|Lady Audley's Secret]]''
| Helen Talboys
| Lost film
|-
| 1915
| ''[[The Two Orphans (1915 film)|The Two Orphans]]''
| Henriette
| Lost film
|-
| 1915
| ''[[Sin (1915 film)|Sin]]''
| Rosa
| Lost film
|-
| 1915
| ''[[Carmen (1915 Raoul Walsh film)|Carmen]]''
| [[Carmen]]
| Lost film
|-
| 1915
| ''[[The Galley Slave]]''
| Francesca Brabaut
| Lost film
|-
| 1915
| ''[[Destruction (film)|Destruction]]''
| Fernade
| Lost film
|-
| 1916
| ''[[The Serpent (1916 film)|The Serpent]]''
| Vania Lazar
| Lost film
|-
| 1916
| ''[[Gold and the Woman]]''
| Theresa Decordova
| Lost film
|-
| 1916
| ''[[The Eternal Sapho]]''
| Laura Bruffins
| Lost film
|-
| 1916
| ''[[East Lynne (1916 film)|East Lynne]]''
| Lady Isabel Carlisle
|
|-
| 1916
| ''[[Under Two Flags (1916 film)|Under Two Flags]]''
| Cigarette
| Lost film
|-
| 1916
| ''[[Her Double Life]]''
| Mary Doone
| Lost film
|-
| 1916
| ''[[Romeo and Juliet (1916 Fox film)|Romeo and Juliet]]''
| [[Juliet]]
| Lost film
|-
| 1916
| ''[[The Vixen]]''
| Elsie Drummond
| Lost film
|-
| 1917
| ''[[The Darling of Paris]]''
| [[Esmeralda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)|Esmeralda]]
| Lost film
|-
| 1917
| ''[[The Tiger Woman (1917 film)|The Tiger Woman]]''
| Princess Petrovitch
| Lost film
|-
| 1917
| ''[[Her Greatest Love]]''
| Hazel
| Lost film
|-
| 1917
| ''[[Heart and Soul (1917 film)|Heart and Soul]]''
| Jess
| Lost film
|-
| 1917
| ''[[Camille (1917 film)|Camille]]''
| [[La Dame aux Camélias|Marguerite Gauthier]]<ref>{{cite news |first= |title=Theda Bara Makes 'Camille' Reality |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/828058332.html?dids=828058332:828058332&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Oct+30%2C+1917&author=&pub=The+Hartford+Courant&desc=THEDA+BARA+MAKES+%27CAMILLE%27+REALITY&pqatl=google |quote=Heralded as one of the screen triumphs of the day, "Camille", adapted from the Dumas novel, and with Theda Bara the featured player, fulfills the promises of the management of Poli's Theater, where this film really heads the bill this half of the week. Vaudeville must... |work=[[Hartford Courant]] |date=October 30, 1917 |accessdate=2008-07-20 }}</ref>
| Lost film
|-
| 1917
| ''[[Cleopatra (1917 film)|Cleopatra]]''
| [[Cleopatra]]
| Approximately 20 seconds exist
|-
| 1917
| ''[[The Rose of Blood]]''
| Lisza Tapenka
| Lost film
|-
| 1917
| ''[[Madame Du Barry (1917 film)|Madame Du Barry]]''
| [[Madame du Barry|Jeanne Vaubernier]]
| Lost film
|-
| 1918
| ''[[The Forbidden Path]]''
| Mary Lynde
| Lost film
|-
| 1918
| ''[[The Soul of Buddha]]''
| Priestess
| Story<br>Lost film
|-
| 1918
| ''[[Under the Yoke (film)|Under the Yoke]]''
| Maria Valverda
| Lost film
|-
| 1918
| ''[[Salomé (1918 film)|Salomé]]''
| [[Salome (opera)|Salome]]
| Lost film
|-
| 1918
| ''[[When a Woman Sins]]''
| Lilian Marchard / Poppea
| Lost film
|-
| 1918
| ''[[The She-Devil]]''
| Lorette
| Lost film
|-
| 1919
| ''[[The Light (1919 film)|The Light]]''
| Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne
| Lost film
|-
| 1919
| ''[[When Men Desire]]''
| Marie Lohr
| Approximately 17 seconds exist
|-
| 1919
| ''[[The Siren's Song (1919 film)|The Siren's Song]]''
| Marie Bernais
| Lost film
|-
| 1919
| ''[[A Woman There Was]]''
| Princess Zara
| Lost film
|-
| 1919
| ''[[Kathleen Mavourneen (1919 film)|Kathleen Mavourneen]]''
| Kathleen Cavanagh
| Lost film
|-
| 1919
| ''[[La Belle Russe]]''
| Fleurett Sackton/La Belle Russe
| Lost film
|-
| 1919
| ''[[The Lure of Ambition]]''
| Olga Dolan
| Lost film
|-
| 1925
| ''[[The Unchastened Woman]]''
| Caroline Knollys
|
|-
| 1926
| ''[[Madame Mystery]]''
| Madame Mysterieux
| Short film
|-
| 1926
| ''[[45 Minutes from Hollywood]]''
| Herself
| Short film
|}

==Cultural references==
Theda Bara was one of three actresses ([[Pola Negri]] and [[Mae Murray]] were the others) whose eyes were combined to form the [[Chicago International Film Festival]]'s logo, a stark, black and white close up of the composite eyes set as repeated frames in a strip of film.<ref>[http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/history/ About Our Logo – The Chicago International Film Festival.]</ref>

The ''[[International Times]]''' logo is a black-and-white image of Theda Bara. The founders' intention had been to use an image of actress [[Clara Bow]], 1920s "[[It girl]]", but a picture of Theda Bara was used by accident and, once deployed, not changed.<ref>{{cite book | author=[[Barry Miles|Miles, Barry]] | title=[[Many Years From Now]] | publisher=[[Vintage (publisher)|Vintage]] – [[Random House]] | year=1998 | isbn=0-7493-8658-4 | page =232}}</ref>

In June 1996, two biographies of Bara were released: Ron Genini's ''Theda Bara: A Biography'' (McFarland) and [[Eve Golden]]'s ''Vamp'' (Emprise). In October 2005 TimeLine Films of [[Culver City]] premiered a film biography, ''Theda Bara: The Woman With the Hungry Eyes''.

Bara has also been the subject of several works of fiction, including ''In Theda Bara's Tent'' by Diana Altman, ''The Director's Cut: A Theda Bara Mystery'' by Christopher DiGrazia and the play ''Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi'' by Bob Johnston.

Theda Bara appears as a character in the books "Vampyres of Hollywood" and "Love Bites" by [[Adrienne Barbeau]] and in "Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story" by [[Clive Barker]].

A photo of Theda Bara as Cleopatra is the album artwork for [[The Lumineers]] record [[Cleopatra (album)]] released in 2016.

In May 2016, A memoir (McFarland) Theda Bara, My Mentor "Under the Wings of Hollywood's First Femme Fatale" by Joan Craig with Beverly Stout was released. Young Joan in the companionship of Theda Bara during the 1940s and 1950s includes tales of her husband Charles Brabin, friends Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Victor Fleming and other significant stars of the past.

==References==

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==Further reading==
* ''Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse'' by Judith Buchanan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Chapter 6. ISBN 0-521-87199-9.
* ''The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era'' by David W. Menefee. Albany: Bear Manor Media, 2007. ISBN 0-275-98259-9.
* {{cite book | author=Eve Golden | title=Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara | publisher=Emprise | year=1996 | isbn=1-887322-00-0}}
* {{cite book | author=Ronald Genini | title=Theda Bara: A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp, with a Filmography | publisher=McFarland | year=1996 | isbn=0-7864-0202-4}}
* ''Famous Juliets'' by Jerome Hart, in ''Motion Picture Classic'', March, 1923.
* ''A Million and One Nights'' by Terry Ramsaye. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926.
* {{cite book | author=Susan Fox | title=William Fox: A Story of Early Hollywood 1915–1930 | publisher=Midnight Marquee Press Inc | year=2006 | isbn=1-887664-62-9}}
* {{cite book | author=Christopher DiGrazia | title=The Director's Cut: A Theda Bara Mystery | publisher=1921 PVG Publishing | year=2011 | isbn=0-9827709-4-4}}
* {{cite book | author=Bob Johnston | title=Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi | publisher=Dramatist's Play Service | year=2002 | isbn=0-8222-1837-2}}
* {{cite book | author=Diana Altman | title=In Theda Bara's Tent | publisher=Tapley Cove Press | year=2010 | isbn= 0-615-34327-9}}

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* [http://www.classicimages.com/1996/july/theda.html Excerpt from Golden's biography ''Vamp'']
* [http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/ssotm/May96/ Biography at monash.edu.au]
* [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=141370&word= Theda Bara] photo gallery NY Public Library Billy Rose collection
* [http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/bara-theda "Theda Bara"], entry in ''Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia''

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