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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 was a Polish-born actress who starred in silent films in Europe and Hollywood. She was known for her exotic and earthy roles, her romances with Chaplin and Valentino, and her return to Europe under Nazi rule.
- January 1, 1
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- January 1, 1
- 1.52 m
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 ...
She lived in San Antonio, Texas until the 1st of July 1987, when she died from severe pneumonia. At the time she was also suffering from a brain tumour, for which she refused treatment. To this day Negri remains a legend of the big screen and is the only female Polish actress to have become a world-renowned film star.
She dances with real snakes, becomes a Georgian prince’s wife and, in her autumn years, rejects an offer from Spielberg himself. Charlie Chaplin adores her, Rudolf Valentino falls in love with her and Sarah Bernhardt considers her as her successor. She is dubbed the first vamp of Hollywood and the femme fatale of silent cinema.
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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.
