Lure of Ambition (1919)

Lure of Ambition

1919

Romance

Synopsis

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)

Credits

Director

Edmund Lawrence

Cast

Amelia Gardner as Lady Constance Bromey

Dan Mason as Sylvester Dolan

Dorothy Drake as Muriel Ralston

Ida Waterman as Duchess

Peggy Parr as Minna Dolan

Robert Paton Gibbs as Miguel Lopez

Tammany Young as Dan Hicks

Theda Bara as Olga Dolan