Lure of Ambition

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Lure of Ambition

Release Date: November 16, 1919

Year	:	1919
Slogan	:	«There are women who would barter their souls for luxuries and a fine time. Is There One in Your Life?»
Genres	:	Romance
Production Companies	:	Fox Film Corporation
Director	:	Edmund Lawrence
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Writers	:	Edmund Lawrence, Julia Burnham

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)