Theda Bara, Hollywood’s First Sex Symbol

Theda Bara, Hollywood’s First Sex Symbol

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Theda Bara might be the most significant celebrity pioneer whose movies you’ve never seen. She was the movie industry’s first sex symbol; the first femme fatale; and she might have been America’s first homegrown goth.