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Pola Negri ( / ˈpoʊlə ˈnɛɡri /; born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec [a] [apɔˈlɔɲa xaˈwupʲɛt͡s]; [b] 3 January 1897 [c] – 1 August 1987) 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.
Pola Negri. Actress: Bella Donna. Pola Negri was born in Lipno, Poland, and moved to Warsaw as a child. Living in poverty with her mother, a teenage Pola auditioned and was accepted to the Imperial Ballet. Due to an illness that ended her dancing career, she soon switched to the Warsaw Imperial Academy of Dramatic Arts and became an actress.
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Pola Negri was born Apolonia Chalupec in Janowa, Poland, on January 3, 1897, the sole child of three to survive infancy in a middle class family. When her Slovakian father was arrested by the Russians and sent to a Siberian prison camp, she and her Polish mother became impoverished. Moving to Warsaw in 1902, she was to spend her formative years ...
- January 3, 1897
- August 1, 1987
Aug 3, 1987 · Pola Negri, a tempestuous green-eyed vamp of the silent screen who tantalized audiences with her on- and off-camera romances, died Saturday at Northeast Baptist Hospital in San Antonio. She was 88 ...
Aug 3, 1987 · Pola Negri, the silent screen "vamp" whose passion on film was more than matched by highly publicized off-screen love affairs with Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino, has died in a hospital in ...
There, Negri is dubbed the ‘Polish Asta Nielsen’. She ends up in Berlin after being invited by one of the most prominent drama theatre directors of the 20thcentury who becomes entranced by her: Max Reinhardt. Pola plays the role of a dancer in the film adaptation of Sumurun. On the set, she meets Ernst Lubitsch.
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Pola Negri’s later years Between 1927 and her death, she made a mere fifteen films, in stark contrast to the twenty films that made her a star during her golden years at Paramount (1922-1927). In 1935, she went to Germany for a few movies and, while there, came to the attention of Hitler, who tried to convince her to make propaganda films for the Third Reich.
