Madame Du Barry

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Theda Bara dressed as Madame Dubarry in 18th-century costume with a powdered wig, seated on a patterned sofa, in a 1917 film scene.

Madame Du Barry

film by Edwards [1917]

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Theda Bara
Two Flags (1916), Camille (1917), Madame Du Barry (1917), Cleopatra (1917), Salome (1918), and Kathleen Mavourneen (1919). By the end of World War I, her popularity had declined. After an unsuccessful appearance on Broadway and an attempted Hollywood comeback, she retired from the screen in the late 1920s.
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Two Flags (1916), Camille (1917), Madame Du Barry (1917), Cleopatra (1917), Salome (1918), and Kathleen Mavourneen (1919). By the end of World War I, her popularity had declined. After an unsuccessful appearance on Broadway and an attempted Hollywood comeback, she retired from the screen in the late 1920s.
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