Theda Bara was not who she appeared to be. To silent film audiences a century ago, she was the first sex symbol of the silver screen, the sultry “vamp” with the dark, brooding eyes who embodied ...

Fans of film history better check out AMC tonight, where the offerings include a rarely seen 1915 film featuring one of the cinema’s first superstars. “Mad About You” (8 p.m.-8: 30 p.m., WBAL, Channel ...

The Hollywood Playhouse mixes big-screen myth and some real-life facts with the musical farce Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi, opening tonight. The tale suggests that a production assistant whose ...

A well-decorated lobby can set a show`s mood well before the actors do. That`s clearly the case with ”Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi,” the new musical at the Wellington Theatre. Its lobby amounts ...

Cincinnati’s first movie superstar – silent screen actress Theda Bara – will be celebrated with a panel discussion and rare film clips and photos at the Main Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton ...

From around 1914 to 1920, she was the most exciting and exotic movie star in the world of silent movies. On the silver screen, she was beautiful, seductive, and dangerous. Her publicist and the Fox ...

Here’s a titillating tale from the crypt. Experts believe the Lincoln Memorial sits above a racy secret. Forty-five feet below the iconic sculpture of the former president is the sketch of a woman ...

Possibly the screen's first ever vamp, Theda Bara plays a woman who entrances a man, wealthy diplomat John Schuyler, who leaves his nice wife and little daughter to cavort around Europe. He returns to ...

”Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi,” which sounds goofy right from the start, is a new musical put together with an improbable combination of simple- minded innocence and shrewd show business skill.

From Wikipedia Theda Bara (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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In this hallucination of a one-person show, a genderqueer teen who goes ...