Lure of Ambition (1919)

Theda Bara plays the socialclimbing Olga Dolan who becomes the Duchess of Rutledge by means of deception and sheer ruthlessness Sadly Bara who had more or less singlehandedly 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