Lure of Ambition is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Edmund Lawrence, and starring Theda Bara.
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Theda Bara as Olga Dolan in Lure of Ambition.
A lost film is a movie in which the original negative and all copies are not known to exist in any studio archive, private collection, or public archive. Films can be wholly or partially lost for a nu
Lon Chaney in London After Midnight (1927), one of the most sought-after lost films, with the last known print of it being destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. A set of production stills survives.
Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917). Four hundred stills, one minute of the film itself, and the intro are known to have survived.
The First Men in the Moon (1919), a lost British film, reputedly "the first movie to ever be based entirely on a famous science fiction novel"
Tenderloin (1928), starring Dolores Costello, the second Vitaphone feature to have talking sequences, is considered a lost film because only its soundtrack is known to have survived.