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Lure of Ambition(1919)
Status: Released
Date: 1919-11-16
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There are women who would barter their souls for luxuries and a fine time. Is There One in Your Life?
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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)
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Theda Bara
Olga Dolan
Thurlow Bergen
Duke of Rutledge
William B. Davidson
Hon. Cyril Ralston
Dan Mason
Sylvester Dolan
Ida Waterman
Duchess
Robert Paton Gibbs
Miguel Lopez
Tammany Young
Dan Hicks
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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)
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1919-11-16
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There are women who would barter their souls for luxuries and a fine time. Is There One in Your Life?
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