Lure of Ambition

Overview

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)

Cast

Theda Bara

Olga Dolan

Thurlow Bergen

Duke of Rutledge

William B. Davidson

Hon. Cyril Ralston

Dan Mason

Sylvester Dolan

Ida Waterman

Duchess

N/A

Amelia Gardner

Lady Constance Bromey

Robert Paton Gibbs

Miguel Lopez

N/A

Dorothy Drake

Muriel Ralston

N/A

Peggy Parr

Minna Dolan

Tammany Young

Dan Hicks