Lure of Ambition

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)

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 16, 1919

Original language

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Fox Film Corporation

Cast

Amelia Gardner,Robert Paton Gibbs,Theda Bara,Peggy Parr,Tammany Young,Thurlow Bergen,Dan Mason,William B. Davidson,Dorothy Drake,Ida Waterman

Director

Edmund Lawrence

Writer

Edmund Lawrence,Julia Burnham

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0010407