Directed by Frank Powell for the Fox Film Corporation, "A Fool There Was" (six reels) introduced actress Theda Bara to the audiences of 1915. The film also stars actresses Mabel Frenyoen and May Allison.
It is one of the only surviving films in which Theda Bara appeared, of the almost fourty films in which the actress appeared between 1916 and 1919, including "Camille" and "Madame Du Barry", only three minutes of footage survivive, nearly every single film in which she appeared on screen now presumed lost, with no existing copies.
Theda Bara wrote "How to Become a Vampire" for the June 1919 issue of Forum magazine and was interviewed by Olga Petrova for Shadowland magazine in 1922 and for Motion Picture Magazine in 1922, both instances of one actor interviewing another. Theda Bara married film director Charles Brabin in 1921, who that year was directing actress Estelle Taylor in the film "Footfalls" (eight reels).
"A Fool There Was" was remade during 1922 by director Emmett J Flynn and starred acress Estelle Taylor.
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