Lure of Ambition

Lure of Ambition

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1919-11-16

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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Lure of Ambition

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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)

Released

1919-11-16

Runtime

50

Director

Edmund Lawrence

Budget

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Revenue

$0

Genres

Romance

Language

No Language

Production

Fox Film Corporation

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    Theda Bara

    Theda Bara
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    Thurlow Bergen

    Thurlow Bergen
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    William B. Davidson

    William B. Davidson
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    Dan Mason

    Dan Mason
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    Ida Waterman

    Ida Waterman
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    Amelia Gardner

    Amelia Gardner
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    Robert Paton Gibbs

    Robert Paton Gibbs
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    Dorothy Drake

    Dorothy Drake
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    Peggy Parr

    Peggy Parr
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    Tammany Young

    Tammany Young