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Lure of Ambition (1919)
Directed by Edmund Lawrence
Overview
Theda Bara plays the social-climbing Olga Dolan, who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness. Sadly, Bara, who had more or less single-handedly begun the “vamp” craze with the prototype of the genre, A Fool There Was, went out with little more than a whisper. She left films after the ironically titled The Lure of Ambition, and was lured back only twice, in: The Unchastened Woman (1925), a poverty row concoction which had few takers, and Madame Mystery (1926)
Length 50 minutes
Actors
Theda Bara | Thurlow Bergen | William B. Davidson | Dan Mason | Ida Waterman | Amelia Gardner | Robert Paton Gibbs | Dorothy Drake | Peggy Parr | Tammany Young