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Lure of Ambition

Lure of Ambition

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 16, 1919

Runtime

0h 50m

Genres

Romance

Original Title

Lure of Ambition

Production Companies

Fox Film Corporation

Director

Edmund Lawrence

Description

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)