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 ...

Theda Bara’s Memoirs, Cedar Point Historical Museum, James Gayles, Aaron Gonzales The unpublished memoirs of silent film icon Theda Bara lie in wait at the University of Cincinnati Archives and ...

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.

The Washington Post reported that the image could be that of screen femme fatale Theda Bara, who epitomized the vamp (female vampire) image and was a huge star during the silent age of cinema.

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.” ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Not the tempestuous Cigarette of the Theda Bara vintage [1916 version] when Under Two Flags was a highlight in that silent film vamp’s career, Colbert nonetheless makes the somewhat bawdy cafe ...