TCM showed A FOOL THERE WAS several years ago, and I video taped it - remember those? It was an interesting relic. Ms Bara was a bad bad bad girl whose entire reason for living was destroying the lives of foolish married men....and so she did.
She was NOT thin, and she BIG eyes ringed with kohl....and her type went out of fashion fairly quickly....BUT she was big while she had it. Yes, I think her CLEOPATRA has turned to dust, but there are fragments of her here and there.
Theda....nee Theodosia Goodman from Ohio....lived until 1959 and was quite the good sport about her former career as the screen's Vamp and ManKiller, they say.