Lure of Ambition
16/11/1919
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)
Movie Information
Theda Bara
as Olga Dolan
Thurlow Bergen
as Duke of Rutledge
William B. Davidson
as Hon. Cyril Ralston
Dan Mason
as Sylvester Dolan
Ida Waterman
as Duchess
Amelia Gardner
as Lady Constance Bromey
Robert Paton Gibbs
as Miguel Lopez
Dorothy Drake
as Muriel Ralston
Peggy Parr
as Minna Dolan
Tammany Young
as Dan Hicks
