Theda Bara Home - New York City

Theda Bara's home is located on East 60th Street in New York City.  It was here the famous silent film vamp moved in 1926, after she had retired from films.  For most of her professional career Theda lived in an Upper West Side apartment while working at the Fox Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, then a home on West Adams Boulevard in Los Angeles when she relocated to Hollywood.  After her retirement she moved to a house on North Alpine Drive in Beverly Hills, and rented an apartment here, not far from Central Park.  She shared both homes with her husband, film director Charles Brabin.  Although she was no longer acting in films she did keep busy in the social scene, granting interviews and appearing on several radio broadcasts.  During this time Brabin continued directing, helming such films as Stella Maris (1925) and Beast of the City (1932).  For much of the 1930's and 40's the couple travelled back and forth from coast to coast, even renting a home in Bara's birth town of Cincinnati for awhile, as a stopover point between the coasts.  She died at California Lutheran Hospital on April 7, 1955, at 69, from colon and liver cancer.

 Submit photo(s) for this home.