Pola Negri
From Wikipedia Pola Negri (born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec, sometimes spelled Chalupec; 3 January 1897 – 1 August 1987) was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles. She was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood, and became one of the most popular actresses in American silent film. Her varied career included work as an actress in theatre and vaudeville, as a recording artist, as a ballerina, and as an author. Pola Negri has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard. She was the 11th star in Hollywood history to place her hand and foot prints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. She received a star in Poland's Walk of Fame in Łódź and Poland's post office issued a postage stamp honouring her in 1996. The Polish Film Festival of Los Angeles remembered her with the Pola Negri Award, given to outstanding film artists, and the Pola Negri Museum in Lipno gives a Polita award for outstanding artist achievement. Pola Negri died on 1 August 1987, She was aged 90.
The Moon-Spinners
as Madame HabibYoung English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less...
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The Wildcat
as RischkaA charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain...
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Madame DuBarry
as Jeanne Vaubernier - later Madame du BarryThe story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of...
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Mazurka
as Vera, SingerA woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.
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Carmen
as CarmenThe tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl,...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
as SelfPola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen...
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Hi Diddle Diddle
as Genya SmetanaWhen the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's...
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Sumurun
as Yannaia - a DancerThe favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a...
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Mad Love
as SapphoRichard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite...
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The Spanish Dancer
as MaritanaThe Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even...
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East of Suez
as Daisy ForbesAfter being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was,...
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Moskau - Shanghai
as Olga PetrownaA drama film directed by Paul Wegener.
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The Eyes of the Mummy
as MaEgyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a...
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A Woman of the World
as Countess Elnora NatatoriniA European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle...
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Hollywood
as Pola NegriAngela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa....
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Forbidden Paradise
as CatherineFilm based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
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The Woman on Trial
as JulieA story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long...
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The Polish Dancer
as Pola BasznikowA wild young girl runs away from her parents' house to support herself and attracts the...
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Barbed Wire
as Mona MoreauDuring WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
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Men
as CleoCleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her...
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The Woman He Scorned
as LouiseA lighthouse keeper's wife shelters her fugitive lover.
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The Woman from Moscow
as Princess FedoraA silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life,...
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A Woman Commands
as Madame Maria Draga / Queen DragaIn order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts...
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The Golden Twenties
as Self (archive footage)Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports,...
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Hotel Imperial
as Anna SedlakDuring World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak...
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Bella Donna
as Bella Donna (Ruby)Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to...
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The Cheat
as Carmelita De CórdobaAfter losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects...
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Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of...
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Studenci
as Pola, Jan's and Stasia's daughterA lost film starring Pola Negri
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The Secret Hour
as AmyAn Elderly fruit grower sends a photo of his foreman, not himself, to a waitress he wishes to...
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100 Years of the UFA
as Self - Actress (archive footage)The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the...
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Mania
as ManiaA beautiful cigarette factory worker becomes the face of the company's new marketing campaign....
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Lily of the Dust
as LilyLily, a poor and friendless orphan, is married to a sensual and elderly Colonel in the German...
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Vendetta
as Marianna PaoliIn Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to...
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The Yellow Ticket
as Lea, the Professor's Adopted Daughter"The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a...
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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
as Self (archive footage)From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of...
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Die Flamme
as YvetteIn 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful...
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Madame Bovary
as Emma BovaryA drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.
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The Charmer
as MariposaA wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a...
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Shadows of Paris
as Claire, Queen of the ApachesA young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
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Fanatisme
as Rosine SavelliAfter many difficulties, the seductive Italian dancer, Rosine Savelli, manages to clear herself...
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The Last Payment
as LolaA beautiful woman of the Latin Quarter, marries a rich cattle owner Pedro Maurez from South...
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Intrigue
as GattinIntrigue or The Martyrium is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and...
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Good and Naughty
as Germaine MorrisFour middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.
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Loves of an Actress
as RachelRachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three...
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Three Sinners
as Baroness Gerda WallentinA woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been...
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