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Bara, Theda (1890–1955)

US silent-film actor. She became known as ‘the vamp’, and the first movie sex symbol, after appearing in A Fool There Was (1915), based on a poem by Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Vampire’.

She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. As the most popular star of the Fox studios, Bara made more than 40 films between 1915 and 1920. After unsuccessfully attempting a career on the Broadway stage, she retired from show business. Her stage name was an anagram of ‘Arab death’.
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