Pola Negri
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1897-01-03
Day of Death
1987-08-01 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Lipno, Poland
Pola Negri
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting
(2017)
100 Years of the UFA
as Self - Actress (archive footage)
(2017)
Pola Negri: Life of a Star
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1995)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
as Self (archive footage)
(1964)
The Moon-Spinners
as Madame Habib
(1961)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
(1953)
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
(1950)
The Golden Twenties
as Self (archive footage)
(1943)
Hi Diddle Diddle
as Genya Smetana
(1938)
Die Nacht der Entscheidung
as Tessa Brückmann
(1938)
Die fromme Lüge
as Carmen Casini
(1937)
Tango Notturno
as Mado Doucet
(1937)
Madame Bovary
as Emma Bovary
(1936)
Moskau - Shanghai
as Olga Petrowna
(1935)
Mazurka
as Vera, Singer
(1934)
Fanatisme
as Rosine Savelli
(1932)
A Woman Commands
as Madame Maria Draga / Queen Draga
(1931)
(1929)
The Woman He Scorned
as Louise
(1928)
Three Sinners
as Baroness Gerda Wallentin
(1928)
The Woman from Moscow
as Princess Fedora
(1928)
The Secret Hour
as Amy
(1928)
Loves of an Actress
as Rachel
(1927)
Barbed Wire
as Mona Moreau
(1927)
The Woman on Trial
as Julie
(1927)
Hotel Imperial
as Anna Sedlak
(1926)
Good and Naughty
as Germaine Morris
(1926)
The Crown of Lies
as Olga Kriga
(1925)
A Woman of the World
as Countess Elnora Natatorini
(1925)
The Charmer
as Mariposa
(1925)
Flower of Night
as Carlota y Villalon
(1925)
East of Suez
as Daisy Forbes
(1924)
Men
as Cleo
(1924)
Forbidden Paradise
as Catherine
(1924)
Shadows of Paris
as Claire, Queen of the Apaches
(1924)
Lily of the Dust
as Lily
(1923)
Hollywood
as Pola Negri
(1923)
Die Flamme
as Yvette
(1923)
The Spanish Dancer
as Maritana
(1923)
The Cheat
as Carmelita De Córdoba
(1923)
Bella Donna
as Bella Donna (Ruby)
(1921)
The Wildcat
as Rischka
(1921)
Mad Love
as Sappho
(1920)
Sumurun
as Yannaia - a Dancer
(1920)
Intrigue
as Gattin
(1920)
Arme Violetta
as Violetta
(1920)
(1920)
Die Marchesa d'Arminiani
as Marchesa Assunta
(1919)
Madame DuBarry
as Jeanne Vaubernier - later Madame du Barry
(1919)
Vendetta
as Marianna Paoli
(1919)
The Woman at the Crossroads
as Maria
(1919)
The Last Payment
as Lola
(1919)
(1919)
(1918)
Carmen
as Carmen
(1918)
Mania
as Mania
(1918)
(1918)
The Yellow Ticket
as Lea, the Professor's Adopted Daughter
(1918)
(1917)
The Polish Dancer
as Pola Basznikow
(1917)
(1917)
Wenn das Herz in Haß erglüht
as Ilja Vörösz
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1917)
(1916)
Studenci
as Pola, Jan's and Stasia's daughter
(1915)
The Wife
as Helena
(1915)
(1914)
Slave of Her Senses
as Pola, dancer