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	Pola Negri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pola Negri [1] (December 31, 1894 - August 1, 1987) was a Polish film actress who achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films between 1910's and 1930's.
		Negri lived her remaining years in San Antonio, with her companion, Texan heiress and composer, Margaret West, but she is mostly remembered only by film buffs and researchers.
		Pola Negri has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pola_Negri (1336 words)

	film98.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pola Negri was one of the classical female film stars that paved the way for the other women film heroines that would follow her.
		Negri was one of the first women to star in a role that portrayed females in a violent situation brought on by the male counterpart.
		Pola Negri is undeniably a great inspiration for the film stars of today since she was the one who helped change the way actresses should look on the screen and to play many different roles that complemented her real life character.
	www.jcu.edu /communications/film98.htm (2214 words)

	Classic Images: Pola Negri
		Pola's own hunger for the limelight, and the wacky PR put out by her American studio, Paramount, had turned her into a parody of the heavy-breathing silent screen vamp.
		Pola also married the first of her two allegedly royal husbands at this time; she was wed to Count Eugene Dambski from 1920 through 1922.
		Pola Negri was one of the first German stars to be lured to America, and she left a country in the midst of great artistic excitement.
	www.classicimages.com /1997/december97/negri.html (3200 words)

	Pola Negri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Negri was born in Poland, and studied acting at the Warsaw Imperial Academy of Dramatic Arts.
		Negri went to work for Paramount Pictures and among her most popular films were "Vendetta" (1921) with Emil Jannings, "Forbidden Paradise" (1924) with Adolph Menjou, "Barbed Wire" (1927) with Clive Brook, and "Three Sinners" (1928) with Warner Baxter.
		Negri said she and the screen shiek had been engaged to be married.
	www.cemeteryguide.com /negri.html (402 words)

	Windy City Times
		Pola made it known to all that she wished to be referred to as Madame Negri.
		Negri again stole the limelight at Valentino’s Hollywood funeral, for which she had ordered a $2,000 bed of red roses with her name POLA spelled out in white roses at the center.
		Pola’s first sound film, Loves of an Actress 񢈈), was a disaster, attacked by the critics largely for her deep Polish accent.
	www.windycitymediagroup.com /gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=5552 (1919 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Pola Negri], screen actress, was born in Janowo, Poland, the daughter of a Hungarian tinsmith and his wife.
		Pola was her childhood nickname, shortened from Apollonia; Negri she later took as her stage name after Italian poetess Adah Negri, her girlhood idol.
		Pola Negri died of a brain tumor in San Antonio on August 2, 1987, and was buried in Los Angeles.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fchtm.html (648 words)

	San Antonio Current - Screens:A star is archived (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Negri, aka Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec, was born in 1899 (or 1894, depending on who you ask) in Janowa, Poland.
		Early in her life, Negri was married to a Polish Count and, much later, she wed Prince Mdivani of Georgia, but the press paid more attention to the romances in between.
		One of the few non-publicity photos in Negri's album is of her and Valentino poolside: He is sitting on the edge of her deck chair in an unglamorous swim cap, smoking contentedly and patting Pola's leg, while she, in a giant robe, smiles through a cocktail.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13971542&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=484045&rfi=6 (1134 words)

	© Pola Negri - Silent Movie Star - goldensilents.com
		Pola Negri was born Barbara Appolonia Chalupek in Janowa, Poland on December 31st, 1894.
		Pola initially wanted to become a ballerina, but her poverty and a bout with ill health changed her focus from dancing to acting.
		Pola Negri died from pneumonia, secondary to a brain tumor for which she refused treatment, on August 1st, 1987 in San Antonio, Texas.
	www.goldensilents.com /stars/polanegri.html (492 words)

	Denny Jackson's Pola Negri Page
		Barbara Apollina Chalupiec (aka Pola Negri) was born in Janowa, Poland on New Year's Eve in 1894.
		Pola was born into a comfortable lifestyle until her father was arrested by the Russians and sent to a Siberian prison camp.
		Pola made a spectacle of herself when she threw herself on the late Rudolph Valentino's coffin.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/2440/negri.html (429 words)

	Pola Negri photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Negri was popular with American audiences and made five more films in 1923, one of which was a remade of Fannie Ward's 1915 hit, "The Cheat." In 1924, she made four more films, continuing her persona as the exotic vamp.
		The relationship lasted until Valentino's death the next year, but Negri's melodramatics at the time of Valentino's death and at the funeral probably hurt her in the eyes of the American public rather than gaining sympathy for her grief.
		Negri married Serge Mdivani in 1929, but, when she lost her fortune in the 1929 stock market crash, he left and they divorced shortly afterwards.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /photos/polanegriphoto.html (633 words)

	Portrait of the actress Pola Negri by Thomas Staedeli
		The actress Pola Negri was born as Barbara Apolonia Chalupec in Lipno, Poland.
		The movies made one of the greatest stars of Pola Negri und she soon belonged together with Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen to the triumvirate of German artists.
		In 1922 Pola Negri went as the first German actress to the USA where she made her film debut in the new continent with "Bella Donna" (23).
	www.cyranos.ch /smnegr-e.htm (493 words)

	Silent Star of April
		Pola's success in the role of the slave girl took her to Berlin and the Deutsches Theatre, but before she left, she starred in one last role for Sphinx, The Yellow Pass.
		While Pola found considerable success at the Deutsches Theatre, but even more important, Pola found Ernst Lubitsch, the director who became famous for the "Lubitsch Touch," the skillful blending of sly wit and innuendo that confounded even the strictest censor in the 20s.
		In her films, Pola's characters, as well as her screen presence, were distinctly European: sexy in every contemporary sense of the word; strong, earthy, passionate -- full of fire, and her roles to date were of women whose will and ardor were equal to Negri's own.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~pringle/silent/ssotm/Apr96 (855 words)

	Pola Negri - Links Page
		Pola Negri portrait by Tade Styka – A color image of the famous painting of Pola currently held by The National Museum in Warsaw, Poland.
		The director of the Pola Negri documentary, who was born and raised in Poland, used to see the Pola chocolates in his homeland and tells me they are delicious.
		There are bios on Pola Negri, Asta Nielsen, and Henny Porten, as well as Pola’s leading man Harry Liedtke and the forgotten actress Ossi Oswalda, who appeared in several of Lubitsch’s German comedies, such as Die Austernprinzessin (The Oyster Princess), Die Puppe (The Doll) and Meyer Aus Berlin (Meyer from Berlin) (all from 1919).
	www.polanegri.com /polalinks.htm (6050 words)

	Pola Negri
		Pola's performance as the Italian Countess with the tattoo who is sexually desired by almost every male she meets was kind of over the top, but who cares?
		Polish-born Negri was a huge star in the 20s but could not make the transition to sound films in Hollywood She made one American talkie, A Woman Commands (1932) then went back to German cinema through the 30s and 40s.
		Negri and Jannings were major stars of European silent films, and both came to the U.S. (as did Lubitsch) with great success.
	grapevinevideo.com /Pola_Negri.htm (775 words)

	Pola Negri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Died August 1, 1987, in San Antonio, TX ola Negri was born Barbara Apollonia Chalupiec, and made her stage debut in Warsaw in 1913.
		Of course, Miss Negri contributed to a large part of her own fame and was successful in becoming a reigning queen of Hollywood.
		One of American film's greatest imports from Europe, in the end Pola Negri lived in quiet retirement, surfacing on rare occasions, until her death in 1987.
	home.att.net /~t.wetzel/faces/pola/polabio.htm (501 words)

	Pola Pola Pola! The Pola Negri Appreciation Site
		The Pola Negri Appreciation Site is dedicated to preserving the memory of one of the great actresses of the early film.
		We've promised for a while that Pola Negri will be making her triumphant return to the big screen via a feature-length documentary about her life and films.
		Life is a Dream in Cinema: Pola Negri, directed by Mariusz Kotowski and produced by Bright Shining City Productions, makes its World Premiere in Los Angeles at Laemmle's Sunset 5 theatre as a featured entry in the highly esteemed Polish Film Festival of Los Angeles.
	www.polanegri.com (407 words)

	Biography for Pola Negri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pola Negri was born in Poland and moved to Warsaw as a young child.
		Pola was engaged to Charles Chaplin before she met and seduced Rudolph Valentino, and well before he met and married Paulette Goddard.
		On her deathbed in 1987, the 92-year-old Negri was being attended by a handsome young doctor who looked at her chart, and failed to respond immediately to seeing her name.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0624470/bio (1152 words)

	Pola Negri
		Pola Negri is most famous for her annoying publicity--her hysterical scene-stealing at Valentino's funeral and her supposed feud with Gloria Swanson alienated her public, and the American fan magazines had it in for her from the moment she entered Hollywood.
		Pola was not a conventional beauty, and her earthy character and uninhibited acting was something new in films.
		Pola Negri is surely one of the joys of silent film.
	www.stanford.edu /~gdegroat/negri.htm (332 words)

	Pola Negri Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Negri began acting in Warsaw in the early 1910s, appearing in such films as "Niewolnica Zmyslow" (1914), "Bestia" (1915), "Czarna Ksiazka" (1916) and "Studenci" (1917) before coming to the attention of German director Max Reinhardt, who cast her in the stage production "Sumurun" (1916-17).
		Negri had several late-silent era successes in Mauritz Stiller's "Hotel Imperial" and "Barbed Wire" (both 1927), but her charms had begun to wear on the American public.
		Negri retired to San Antonio, TX, with a wealthy patron, where she wrote her heavy-breathing autobiography (modestly titled "Memoirs of a Star"), haughtily refused interviews, and died in 1987 at the age of 92.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/194644 (436 words)

	German 43: Resources: Biographies: Negri, Pola
		After that, Negri became typecast into roles that allowed her to highlight the raw, seductive powers that females ostensibly have over men.
		Because of the energy she exuded in silent features, she was the first German actress to be offered a contract from Paramount in 1922; the most popular film in which she acted in the America was Lubitsch's Forbidden Paradise (1924).
		She attempted a comeback in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich, but returned to America in 1941 when things did not work out.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~germ43/resources/biographies/negri-p.html (171 words)

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		Paula Negri was born in Poland to poor parents.
		Negri's mother apparently was a very poor noblewoman.
		Negri largely owed her career to her schooling at the Imperial Ballet School where she played a cygnet in "Swan Lake." Then Negri contracted tuberculosis; although her illness was very brief.
	www.hollywoodmania.com /negri/negri.html (257 words)

	Pola Negri
		Pola Negri was born in Janowa, Austria-Hungary, on 31st December, 1894.
		Negri emigrated to to the United States in 1923 and was a successful star in Hollywood until the arrival of sound exposed her strong accent.
		Pola Negri died in San Antonio, Texas, on 1st August, 1987.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAnegri.htm (116 words)

	Pola NEGRI : astrology horoscope planets Map of the Heavens Interactive Chart Horoscopes
		Just click on the Dynamic Natal Chart of Pola NEGRI with the positions of planets, astrological houses, and the list of the aspects with orbs in degrees and minutes.
		Depending of the fact that the time of birth is known or not, 6 or 11 planets distributions and planets dominants have been computed for the natal chart of Pola NEGRI.
		Texts are not translated, so if you wish to read interpretations associated with theses computations, you need to go to the full astrological Portrait of Pola NEGRI and to use this Google Automatic Free Website Translator.
	www.astrotheme.fr /en/portraits/G494As3qNFLS.htm (666 words)

	Pola Negri
		After tuberculosis cut short a promising ballet career, Pola Negri began acting, emigrating from her native Poland to Germany to star in films.
		With her passionate characters and her exotic good looks, Negri became one of the biggest silent film stars in the United States.
		By the late 1920s, Negri's popularity waned and she returned to a revived career in Germany.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0771512.html (139 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hi Diddle Diddle: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The plotline is merely an excuse for a series of wild nonsequitur visual and verbal gags, culminating in a cute reverse-clichÃ© finale.
		Making her first Hollywood appearance in years, silent screen star Pola Negri is hilariously cast as Phyffe's opera-star wife Genya Smetana.
		Prescott revealing that a recurring female character is a "special friend of the director"; Leslie Quayle (June Havoc singing a duet with herself); and an outrageous scene in which the wallpaper comes to life during a eardrum-shattering family sing-along (the animation was provided by the Warner Bros. cartoon staff).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002W4TR6 (309 words)

	European BigBands Database- Page 1 "P" Bands
		(25 years later, Pola Negri was singing "Tango Notturno", the title song of one of her last sound pictures (a German produced film.
		During her life, she was a lover of Rod La Roque, and was engaged to Charles Chaplin, both before he met and married Paulette Goddard, and before she met and seduced Rudolph Valentino.
		Negri was Adolf Hitler's favorite actress and even his lover for a short while, despite the fact that she was part Gypsy.
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		Negri is perhaps best-known for his co-authorship of Empire and his work on...
		During that time she adopted the pseudonym of Pola Negri,...
		A PORTRAIT OF ANTONIO NEGRI BY MILTOS MANETAS.
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	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Nazi's Negri -- Feb. 11, 1935 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Polish newsorgans last week were full of Pola Negri, supposed by many to be a Polish Jewess.
		Before Catholic Negri's troubles were reported to Catholic Hitler last week she had been denied permission to act in Germany by Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Paul Josef Goebbels who has said, "I treasure an ordinary prostitute above a married Jewess."
		Overruling Dr. Goebbels, Herr Hitler released an official communique: "Investigation instituted by Der Reichsfuhrer has established that Pola Negri is Polish and therefore Aryan."
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