the VAMP
“I have the face of a vampire,
but the heart of a feminist.”
- Theda Bara
Before Sharon Stone, and even before Joan Crawford and Barbara Stanwyck, there was Theda Bara, the first Femme Fatale of Film and definitive Vamp of the Silent Era. Early cinema, relegated women to portraying “damsels in distress”, eagerly awaiting their manly saviors. That was until 1915 when Theda Bara starred in A Fool There Was, playing a manipulative, cunning woman known only as “The Vampire”. She was powerful and devious, “the woman that did not care” according to the film’s title card. At a time when women were fighting for the right to vote, Theda Bara darkened the silver screen with the image of a woman that turns the tables on an exploitative system, making victims out of heroes and heroines out of villains.
Bara went on to star as the Femme Fatale in nearly 40 films over the next 4 years, movies with names like The Devil’s Daughter, Sin, The Eternal Sapho, The Vixen, and The She-Devil, to name just a few. Sadly, only mere minutes of her films exist today due to a fire at Fox Studios that destroyed practically all the Fox Silent Era film archive. Theda’s image lives today through haunting production stills and portraits. Theda was aware of her influence and mystique having been quoted, saying, “I have the face of a vampire, but the heart of a feminist.”
Sapphoir + AI Songs about Theda Bara
Theda Bara + Black Color Magic Candle
We created a Sapph~Iconic image of Theda Bara for the Black Color Magic Candle to boost its magical properties of PROTECTION + CLOSURE + BANISHMENT. The Vamp protects us with her darkness, frightening off hexes and enemies alike. She sucks the life out of malevolent forces and banishes them, never to return. Black Candle Magic is powerful when used for marking the end of relationships (especially toxic ones), ending a painful chapter in life, protecting yourself from spiritual and emotional harm, or giving reverence and compassion to our Shadow Self.
