Lure of Ambition
1919
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“There are women who would barter their souls for luxuries and a fine time. Is There One in Your Life?”
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)