Lure of Ambition
There are women who would barter their souls for luxuries and a fine time. Is There One in Your Life?
1919 · 50m · Passed Romance
Overview
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)
Director and cast
- 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
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