Lure of Ambition (1919)
There are women who would barter their souls for luxuries and a fine time. Is There One in Your Life?
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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)
- Release date
- November 16, 1919
- Country of origin
- United States
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
Crew
- Edmund Lawrence · Director
- Julia Burnham · Writer
- Edmund Lawrence · Writer
- H. Alderson Leach · Cinematographer