A Fool There Was
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Miss Theda Bara
Edward José
Miss Mabel Fremyear
Miss May Allison
Miss Runa Hodges
Mr. Clifford Bruce
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
John Schuyler, a successful and able businessman, lives happily with his wife and daughter in Larchmont, New York. The vampire, a beautiful but heartless woman who has driven many men to desperation and even suicide, reads in the newspaper that John will sail to England on an important mission for the United States government and decides to add him to her list of victims. On the steamer, the vampire charms John, and soon he is hopelessly in love with her. Because he refuses to give her up, he loses his family and friends, and later becomes addicted to drugs and alcohol. In the end, his strength and spirit broken, John crawls to the vampire to beg her to leave him in peace, but she laughs and gives him the order "kiss me, my fool." He tries to stand, but instead, collapses and dies.
Cast
Miss Theda Bara
Edward José
Miss Mabel Fremyear
Miss May Allison
Miss Runa Hodges
Mr. Clifford Bruce
Mr. Victor Benoit
Miss Minna Gale
Mr. Frank Powell
Creighton Hale
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
You have ruined me, you devil, and now you discard me!- Reginal Parmalee
See what you made of me, and still you prosper, you hell cat!- Second Victim
Kiss me, my Fool!- The Vampire
Trivia
One of only two Theda Bara films that still exists, the other being Unchastened Woman, The (1925).
Notes
According to an ad, the film was also based on a painting by Sir Edward Cowley Burné-Jones. This well-known film initiated the vamp craze of the late teens. The working title of this film was The Vampire. The film was premièred in New York on January 12, 1915 and was re-released in June 1918 by the Fox Film Corp. The film was re-titled and edited to five reels by Hettie Gray Baker. A modern source lists Lucien Andriot as the photographer. Fox Film Corp. produced another version of this film, also entitled A Fool There Was, in 1922, directed by Emmet J. Flynn and starring Estelle Taylor. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.1857.)
