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Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885

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Contents 1 Number of surviving films? 2 Named for Aaron Burr's Daughter? 3 Needs better sources 4 Theda Bara was on Broadway in 1920, not 1926

[edit] Number of surviving films?

One part of the paragraph on Ms Bara's career states that six of her films survive and another part states that three survive. I checked various online sources for silent movies, and couldn't find a definitive answer to how many actually do survive - six seems to be a more likely answer, but tbh I'm not anywhere near knowledgeable enough about the subject to want to correct either statement. Can someone knowledgeable take a look at this?

[edit] Named for Aaron Burr's Daughter?

Why would European immigrants choose the name of Aaron Burr's daughter (Theodosia_Burr_Alston) for their child? Could her parents have a Burr connection from his years in Europe?

The Carmen (1915) link points to another movie of the same name made many decades later. I have no idea how to fix that.

[edit] Needs better sources

This article was very poorly footnoted. I've removed most of the footnotes pointing to external links, as several simply led to sites with just one or two poor-quality photos of Bara and no further information. The link to http://www.mutoworld.com/Bara.htm seems to have been meant merely to promote a fetish site, as it requires a paid membership to read a brief bio of Bara that was plagiarized from http://www.bombshells.com/gallery/bara/theda_bio.php anyway. The essay at http://www.theolddyke.co.uk/nazimova.htm only mentioned Bara once, in passing. Surely we can do a better job than this. CKarnstein 03:19, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Theda Bara was on Broadway in 1920, not 1926

"Her film career soon began to slow down, finally ending in 1926 with the Hal Roach comedy Madame Mystery. The following year, Bara made a successful but much maligned appearance on Broadway in The Blue Flame."

The NY Times reviewed her performance in 1920: http://snipurl.com/blue_flame