The term 'vamp', meaning a sultry temptress, was coined when silent star Theda Bara played a character called The Vampire in A Fool There Was (1915), Her phoney biography stated that her name was an anagram of ‘Arab Death' and that she was the daughter of a French artist and an Egyptian princess, born in the Sahara desert. The far more prosaic truth is that she was born Theodosia Burr Goodman, daughter of a tailor, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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