

In Casino Royale (1967), Bouchet played the role of Miss Moneypenny. She appeared, semi-nude, in two editions of Playboy magazine: May 1965 (stills from In Harm's Way) and February 1967 ("The Girls of Casino Royale"). She appeared in the films John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1964), In Harm's Way (1964), and Agent for H.A.R.M.
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Her first acting role was a minor part in What a Way to Go! (1964), which led to a series of other roles in the 1960s.

Career īouchet began her career modelling for magazine covers and appearing in television commercials, before eventually becoming an actress. She was on the show from 1959 until 1962, then moved to Hollywood to get into the film industry, changing her Germanic sounding name to the French sounding Barbara Bouchet. These were teenage dancers who danced live to the hit songs of the day and became locally known in their own right by being on television six days per week. During the early 1960s San Francisco Bay Area television station KPIX-TV ran a show named The KPIX Dance Party and offered Gutscher the opportunity to become a member of the show's dance group. Īfter arriving in the United States, the family lived in Five Points, California on the west side of the Central Valley and eventually settled in San Francisco, where Gutscher was raised. They were granted permission to emigrate to the United States under the humanitarian provisions of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948. Her father, Fritz, was a photographer, and her mother, Ingrid, was an actress.Īfter World War II, her family was placed in a resettlement camp in the American occupation zone in Germany. SOURCES: Cincinnati Enquirer, 2-15-11 Jewish Women Encyclopedia (jwa.Bärbel Gutscher was born in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia that was ceded to Nazi Germany and is today part of the Czech Republic. We think it ironic that prudish Cincinnati gets credit for conceiving one of America’s most famous and sensuous sex symbols. in 1955, and she is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery. A 1937 fire at Fox Studio’s storage vaults in New Jersey destroyed nearly their entire collection of silent films, and only six of Bara’s movies remain. Theda Bara is famous for having a higher percentage of lost films than any actor on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Once the honors villa at Xavier University, it was razed in the 1980s. In the 1920s she built a white Spanish villa in Cincinnati on Victory Parkway near Dana Avenue, a duplicate of her Hollywood home. Theda Bara married director Charles Brabin in 1921 and, despite his disapproval of a married woman working, starred in two more films in 19. DeMille had cleaned up the vamp image for a wider audience, and new stars like Clara Bow and Louise Brooks conveyed a cleaner image of sex and sexuality. However, tired of vamp roles, she let her contract with Fox lapse in 1919. She relocated from New York to Los Angeles in 1917 to film Cleopatra, one of her greatest hits.
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Bara said in an interview, “The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.”Īt the height of her career Theda Bara was one of the most popular movie stars, superseded only by Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford.
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She frequently appeared in see-through costumes that were barred by the Hays Code and would still be considered risqué today. Her films were considered shocking to the public, but they made her the movies’ original sex idol. Theda Bara starred in forty films between 19 as a deadly seductress, movies with titles like Sin, Destruction, The Serpent, and Salome. She got her stage name with this film publicists claimed it was an anagram for “Arab death.” At the end of the film she leaned over her dead lover’s corpse and said, “Kiss me, my fool!” Her performance generated the nickname “vamp”, i.e., a woman who seduced and ruined honorable, middle-aged men who became slaves crawling at her feet. Bara’s breakthrough movie role was the sultry vampire in A Fool There Was, a 1915 silent film inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The Vampire.” She was paid $150 a week.
