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Pola Negri
Pola Negri was a Polish stage and film actress and singer. She achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles. She was also acknowledged as a sex symbol of her time.
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entertainment · Polish actress and singer (1897–1987) · actor · singer · writer · stage actor · film actor · dancer · musician · also Pola Negri, Apolonia Chałupiec, Negri
Born 3 January 1897 · Died 1 August 1987 · Q230633
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2025· 1 entry
2021· 1 entry
A street in Bydgoszcz, where she briefly lived in 1920s, was named after her
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2018· 1 entry
culture.pl: Pola Negri – Star of Silent Cinema
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2016· 1 entry
Negri biographer Sergio Delgado contests this, though he notes in his 2016 book Pola Negri: Temptress of Silent Hollywood, that there is "strong anecdotal evidence" that Negri was bisexual.
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2012· 1 entry
Los Angeles Times: Pola Negri, Jean Harlow, Jean Arthur: Kenneth Turan’s DVD picks
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2011· 1 entry
Moviefone: Pola Negri: The Iconic Collection - Where to Watch
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2006· 1 entry
A feature-length documentary about Negri's life, Pola Negri: Life Is a Dream in Cinema, premiered at the Seventh Annual Polish Film Festival of Los Angeles
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Pola Negri – Rudolph Valentino : Succès et raretés 1923–1938”.
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1987· 3 entries
Died 1987-08-01.
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Aged 90, she died of pneumonia secondary to a brain tumor for which she refused treatment
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“Leon Kuraś: A o czym mam myśleć? O Poli Negri?”
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1978· 1 entry
Billy Wilder directed Fedora, and although Negri does not appear in the film, the title character was reportedly based largely on her
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1975· 1 entry
Director Vincente Minnelli approached Negri to appear as the Contessa Sanziani in A Matter of Time, but Negri did not accept due to poor health
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1970· 1 entry
Published her autobiography Memoirs of a Star, published by Doubleday
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1963· 1 entry
Negri lived with West until the latter's death of heart failure in 1963.
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1954· 1 entry
Of pancreatic cancer, in 1957, Negri and West relocated from Los Angeles to a suite in the Menger Hotel, San Antonio, Texas and later to a large home in Olmos Park, Texas
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1951· 1 entry
And spent the remainder of her life living in San Antonio, Texas
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1948· 1 entry
Director Billy Wilder approached Negri to appear as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard (1950), after Mae Murray, Mae West, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, and Mary Pickford declined the role
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1945· 1 entry
For a repertoire centered around the song "Paradise", and retired from the entertainment business altogether
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1944· 1 entry
Negri was engaged by booking agent Miles Ingalls for a nationwide vaudeville tour
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1937· 1 entry
Of Negri having had an affair with Hitler
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1933· 1 entry
With "Mes Nuits sont Mortes" as its flip side
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1931· 2 entries
To begin filming her first talking film, A Woman Commands (1932)
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Recorded seven gypsy folk songs in London accompanied by guitars and chorus, six of which were released as the sides of three records on Victor's His Master's Voice imprint
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1928· 1 entry
Negri was earning $10,000 a week, and was directed by Rowland V
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1927· 1 entry
Negri and Mdivani were married on 14 May 1927 (less than nine months after Valentino's death); shortly after she became pregnant, and Negri, who always wanted a child, started taking better care of her health and even considered retiring from movies in order to be a housewife and mother.
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1926· 1 entry
Negri starred in The Crown of Lies and Good and Naughty, the former of which earned an unfavorable review in Photoplay magazine, which deemed it an "impossible Pola Negri vehicle
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1922· 2 entries
After a long separation period, Negri and Dąbski's union was dissolved in 1922.
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Making her the first European actress to be contracted in Hollywood
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1921· 1 entry
As Gypsy Blood), which was followed by Madame Dubarry (1919, released in the U
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1919· 1 entry
And Paramount invited Negri to come to Hollywood in 1921
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1918· 1 entry
Lubitsch convinced UFA to let him create a large-scale film with Negri as the main character
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1917· 2 entries
To appear as the dancing girl in a German revival of Max Reinhardt's theatre production of Sumurun
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Relocated to Germany, where she began appearing in silent films for the Berlin-based UFA studio
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1914· 1 entry
In Slave of the Senses (Niewolnica zmysłów)
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1913· 1 entry
In Gerhardt Hauptmann's Hannele in Warsaw and appeared the following year in her first film, Niewolnica zmysłów
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1897· 1 entry
Born 1897-01-03.
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