Theta Barra: The Movie Industry's First Overnight Star

Theta Barra became the movie industry's first overnight star. She was cast as quote unquote vampires in movies with titles like Sin, Destruction, and Gold in the Woman. Fox would allow her to play what she considered to be good roles, usually good girls. But the movies would bomb, perhaps because Fox would intentionally fail to promote them. The studio became a factory, she'd later say.