Release Date

16 Nov, 1919

Runtime

00:50: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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)

Original Title

Lure of Ambition

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Actors

Theda Bara

Thurlow Bergen

William B. Davidson

Dan Mason

Ida Waterman

Amelia Gardner

Robert Paton Gibbs

Dorothy Drake

Peggy Parr

Tammany Young

Crew