- Almost all of her forty films have been lost (only six survive, as well as a handful of fragments, as of 2020), leaving her with perhaps the highest percentage of lost work of anybody with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Bara was very near-sighted and, like other myopic actors, she had to memorize the on set position of the furniture and props. She would then rehearse meticulously, working around them, before the cameras rolled.
- Most of her films were unfortunately lost in 1937, in a fire at Fox Studios. Bara had her own personal archive. She did not realize that the nitrate film had disintegrated until the 1940s when she took some reels out to show a child friend, who she hoped would play herself in a film.
- Only a few seconds of her most famous film Cleopatra (1917) still survive. It was last seen in 1934 when Cecil B. DeMille viewed it for his own remake.
- For a time, she became a victim of her own screen image. Making movies at a time when audiences thought that the character that the actor played was the person that they were in real life. She often found herself ostracized publicly. Late in her career she would tell stories of being refused service in restaurants and one nurse's refusal to admit her husband into the hospital, after an accident, because the woman thought that she had caused it. Many of these stories were greatly exaggerated, mostly by Bara herself, but she told them to establish the kind of perception that she had given the public.
- Later in life, Bara hoped to make a film about her career with a neighborhood child she treated as her own. However, the film never came to be as her health took a turn for the worst and she passed on soon after.
- When Bara died she left an estate of $400,000. Sums were bequeathed to her husband, her brother's widow, The Motion Picture Relief Fund (in her name), as well as to children's hospitals. The remaining bulk of the estate was bequeathed to Theda's sister Lori.
- Pictured on one of ten ¢29 US commemorative postage stamps celebrating stars of the silent screen, issued 27 April 1994. Designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, this set of stamps also honored Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, link=nm0000122], Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Zasu Pitts, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and the Keystone Cops.
- As a marketing ploy for Cleopatra (1917), Bara claimed to have the same astrological sign as the real Cleopatra. That is incorrect, as Cleopatra was a Capricorn and Bara was a Leo.
- Her mother, Pauline DeCoppett (1861-1957), was Jewish and she was born in Switzerland. She outlived her daughter Theda by two years.
- Her screen persona was that of an exotic foreign beauty, the ultimate "vamp", who would go through men like a shark. In reality, she was born in Ohio. Those who knew her claimed that she was a quiet, reserved woman who would be more likely found in a bookstore rather than a Hollywood nightclub. In the early 1920s, she married director Charles Brabin. This marriage lasted until her death, despite allegations that Brabin had cheated on her (by Frederica Sagor Maas).
- She married British-born director Charles Brabin in 1921. After her retirement, Theda expressed interest in possibly returning to the stage or screen, but her husband did not consider it proper for his wife to have a career. Bara spent the remainder of her life as a hostess in Hollywood and New York, in comfort and wealth.
- Studios went wild promoting Bara with a massive campaign, billing her as the Egyptian-born daughter of a French actress and an Italian sculptor. They claimed that she had spent her early years in the Sahara Desert, under the shadow of the sphinx, and that she had then moved to France to become a stage actress. The truth is that she had never visited Egypt or France. They called her the "Serpent of the Nile" and they encouraged Bara to discuss mysticism and the occult in interviews.
- Hoping to break out of her vamp typecast, Bara made the film Kathleen Mavourneen (1919) in a Mary Pickford styled role. The film flopped and, mutually tired of each other, she and Fox agreed not to renew her contract. After leaving Fox in 1919, she made only one feature The Unchastened Woman (1925). She retired in 1926 after making only one more film, the short comedy Madame Mystery (1926).
- Promotional claims fed off the fact that her stage name was chosen because it is an anagram for "Arab Death". In reality, "Theda" was a childhood nickname for Theodosia, and "Bara" was a shortened form of her maternal grandfather's last name, Baranger.
- Attended and graduated from Walnut Hills High School (1903).
- Theda Bara Way, Fort Lee, New Jersey is named after her.
- After Bara's sensational early success at 20th Century Fox, the entire Goodman Family took the name of Bara.
- Attended and graduated from the University of Cincinnati.
- In the mid-to-late 1910s, she owned a large Tudor-style home at 649 West Adams Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles. She sold the property to Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and Minta Durfee in 1918. It was eventually also the home of filmmaker couples Raoul Walsh and Miriam Cooper and Joseph M. Schenck and Norma Talmadge.
- She announced, during a 1936 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast, that she was planning to return to films and that she was in the process of finding the right script.
- It is reported that Neil Gaiman took inspiration from her, for the character Death, in the Sandman Comics.
- Following her death, she was interred as Theda Bara Brabin at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
- She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6307 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- In 1930, she lived at 632 North Alpine Drive in Beverly Hills, California.
- Older sister of actress/writer Lori Bara.
- Not only were critics of the opinion that Bara was miscast in Kathleen Mavourneen (1919), but Irish Hibernian societies were enraged that an actress of Jewish extraction was playing an Irish heroine. In protest, they sent their members to stone the theaters exhibiting it and to set off stink bombs within them.
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