Lure of Ambition (1919)
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)
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Stars:
- Edmund Lawrence
Writing:
- Julia Burnham
- Edmund Lawrence
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Release Date: 1919-11-16
- Country: US
- Language: en
Olga Dolan
Hon. Cyril Ralston
Sylvester Dolan
Duchess
Dan Hicks
