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.
"A Fool There Was" was remade during 1922 by director Emmett J Flynn and starred acress Estelle Taylor.
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