Lure of Ambition (1919)
November 16, 1919Release Date
Lure of Ambition (1919)
November 16, 1919Release Date
Plot.
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)
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Cast & Crew.
Theda Bara
Olga Dolan
Thurlow Bergen
Duke of Rutledge
William B. Davidson
Hon. Cyril Ralston
Dan Mason
Sylvester Dolan
Edmund Lawrence
Director
Julia Burnham
Writer
Dorothy Drake
Muriel Ralston
Peggy Parr
Minna Dolan
Ida Waterman
Duchess
Tammany Young
Dan Hicks
Amelia Gardner
Lady Constance Bromey
Robert Paton Gibbs
Miguel Lopez
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Lure of Ambition is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Edmund Lawrence, and starring Theda Bara.The film is now considered lost, though an 82-second outtake is known to survive.