Lure of Ambition is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Edmund Lawrence, and starring Theda Bara.

Olga Dolan is a poor young woman working as a public stenographer at a hotel in New York.

She allures Cyril Ralston, a nobleman, and starts to have a romantic relationship with him.

She goes to England and begins working as a secretary to Lady Constance Bromley.

[2] Although Ralston still pursues her, Olga becomes interested in another nobleman, Duke of Ruthledge, and eventually becomes his private secretary impressing him.