Actress Pola NEGRI, Movie Film Star, Art Deco Dress - eBay (item 260221485906 end time May-25-08 17:37:42 PDT)

Actress Pola NEGRI, Movie Film Star, Art Deco Dress

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Pola Negri (Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec) (31 December 1894 - August 1, 1987) was a Polish film actress who achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films between 1910s and 1930s.
Born Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec on New Year's Eve, 1894 in Lipno, Poland, as an only child in a poor family, her mother had to make a living alone after Chalupiec's father was arrested by the Russians and sent to Siberia. Her father was a poor Slovak immigrant.
In 1902, both moved to Warsaw, where they lived in extreme poverty. She trained as a dancer at the Ballet School in Warsaw and performed there until tuberculosis forced her to stop dancing.
During her movie career, she was also touted as an accomplished organist, and at least one extant photograph shows her apparently performing on a two manual pipe organ, but this may have been merely publicity, as her family's extreme poverty would seem to argue against her studying with any well-known organist.
She turned to acting, and by the end of World War I had established herself as a popular stage actress in Warsaw, the capital, appearing in several films. She made an appearance in the Grand Theatre (in Sumurun and Dumb from Portici), as well as in Small Theatre (Aleksander Fredro's Sluby panienskie) and at the Summer Theatre in the Saxon Garden, a popular summer variéte theatre. She debuted in film in 1914 in Slave of the Senses (Niewolnica zmyslów).
During that time, she adopted the pseudonym "Pola Negri," after the Italian poetess, Ada Negri. She also appeared in a variety of films made by the Warsaw film industry, including The Wife (Zona), The Beast (Bestia), Students (Studenci), Street Ruffian's Lover (Kochanka apasza) and the Mysteries of Warsaw series. During her short screen career in Warsaw, she gained much popularity, acting with many of the most renowned Polish film artists of the time, including Józef Wegrzyn, Wladyslaw Grabowski, Józef Galewski and Kazimierz Junosza-Stepowski.
In 1917, her popularity provided her with an opportunity to move to Berlin, Germany, where she appeared in several films for film directors of the UFA agency, including Max Reinhardt and Ernst Lubitsch. Their films were successful throughout the world, and in 1922 both were offered contracts with Hollywood studios and the following year Negri settled in the U.S. Her exotic style of glamour proved popular with audiences during the 1920s and her affairs with such notable actors as Charles Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino ensured that she remained in the public eye.
One of the most popular Hollywood actresses of the era, and certainly the richest woman of the movie industry at the time, Negri lived in a palace in Los Angeles, modelled after the White House. However, her popularity quickly began to fade.
Negri caused a media sensation after the death in 1926 of Valentino by announcing that they had planned to marry, and following the train that carried his body from New York City to Los Angeles, posing for photographers at every stop. At his funeral she "fainted" several times, and arranged for a large floral arrangement, which spelled out her name, to be placed on Valentino's coffin. Despite the wide publicity she attracted, many of Valentino's friends stated that Valentino and Negri had not intended to marry, and dismissed her actions as a publicity stunt. Negri allegedly kept Valentino's picture on her bedside table until the end of her life, always insisting he had been the great love of her life. Actress Tallulah Bankhead, in particular, badmouthed Negri, although others such as Mary Pickford (supportive and generous to so many troubled actresses of the time) and Valentino's brother, Alberto, defended her.
Negri's "vamp" style began to go out of vogue, and the advent of talking pictures revealed an accented voice that the public did not warm to. As Negri put it: "They went from Pola to Polaroid." Also, the Hays Code introduced in 1930 prevented Negri from using her staging techniques, for which she was so popular in Europe. The ban on "scenes of passion" and "excessive and lustful kissing" proved especially disastrous to her career in the U.S.
Having divorced Eugeniusz Dabski in 1921, Negri married Serge Mdivani in 1927 (he claimed to be a Georgian prince and his brother was married to actress Mae Murray). In 1929, Negri lost most of her fortune in the Wall Street Crash. The couple divorced, and she returned to Europe.
In 1928, Negri made her last film for Paramount Pictures entitled The Woman from Moscow, opposite actor Norman Kerry. The film was only Negri's second talkie (the first being Loves of an Actress, also released in 1928) and Paramount declined to renew her contract after audiences allegedly had difficulty discerning her dialog because of her heavy Polish accent. Negri subsequently left Hollywood later that year for Great Britain to make the 1929 drama The Way of Lost Souls (also known as The Woman He Scorned).
She made only a few films after 1930, and worked mainly in England and Germany, where she acted in several films for the Joseph Goebbels-controlled UFA.
The 1935 Willi Forst picture Mazurka gained much popularity in Germany and became one of Adolf Hitler's favorite films, a fact that gave birth to a rumor about 1937 about Negri having had an affair with the Reich's Führer. There was no truth to the rumor. Pola sued a French magazine, Pour Vous, that had circulated the libelous rumor and won her case. Mazurka was remade (almost shot-for-shot) in the U.S. as a Kay Francis picture, Confession. Negri had expressed a desire to return to the States to do the remake but had been turned down; in her autobiography, she recounted that with Francis in the lead the picture was a flop. Years later director Forst was interviewed stating that although Negri still looked attractive her lifestyle had aged her and she could not be photographed in a tight close-up. He also said she came out of the women's room with "Snow" (cocaine) on her upper lip.
She fled Germany in 1938, after a few Nazi officials labeled her as having "part Jewish" ancestry. She moved to France, and then in 1941 she sailed to New York from Portugal and was temporarily detained at Ellis Island. After her release, she eventually returned to Hollywood. She briefly appeared in the 1943 film Hi Diddle Diddle, though her career was essentially over.
After actresses Mae West and Mary Pickford declined the role, director Billy Wilder approached Negri to appear as Norma Desmond in the film, Sunset Boulevard (1950). Wilder recalled that Negri "threw a tantrum at the mere suggestion of playing a has-been", and the role was given to the more amenable and realistic Gloria Swanson, who became immortalized on celluloid as Norma Desmond.[citation needed]
In 1951, Negri became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Her final film appearance was in the 1964 Walt Disney film The Moon-Spinners, with Hayley Mills.
The same year she received an honorary award from the German film industry for her career work. Negri lived her remaining years in San Antonio, Texas, with her companion, Texan heiress and composer, Margaret West. Negri maintained her flamboyant persona to the end of her life and was often compared to the character role she had famously turned down: Norma Desmond.
She died on August 1, 1987, at the age of 92. Her death was caused by pneumonia, however she was also suffering from a brain tumor (for which she had refused treatment). At her wake at the Porter Loring Funeral Home in San Antonio, her body was placed on view wearing a yellow golden chiffon dress with a golden turban to match. Her small obituary in the local newspaper read, "she had an international career as a screen and stage actress".
She was interred in Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles next to her mother, Eleonora. Since she had no children, she left most of her estate to St. Mary's University in Texas, including several rare prints of her films. In addition, a generous portion of her estate was given to the Polish nuns of the Seraphic Order; a large black and white portrait hangs in the small chapel next to Poland's patron, Our Lady of Czestochowa, in San Antonio, Texas.
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.
There were rumors that Negri had a short affair with the young comedian Milton Berle. Decades later, Berle claimed that these rumors were true on The Howard Stern Show and Larry King Live. (Berle made many such statements about various women, always after said women were dead and could not reply.
Filmography:
   1. The Moon-Spinners (1964) .... Madame Habib
   2. Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) .... Genya Smetana
      ... aka Diamonds and Crime (USA: reissue title)
      ... aka Try and Find It
   3. Nacht der Entscheidung, Die (1938) .... Tessa Brückmann
      ... aka Night of Fate (UK)
   4. Fromme Lüge, Die (1938) .... Carmen Casini
   5. Tango Notturno (1937) .... Mado Doucet
   6. Madame Bovary (1937) .... Emma Bovary
   7. Weg nach Shanghai, Der (1936) .... Olga Petrowna
      ... aka Begegnung in Shanghai (Germany)
      ... aka Moscow Shanghai
      ... aka Moskau-Shanghai (Germany)
      ... aka Zwischen Moskau und Shanghai (Germany: reissue title)
   8. Gräfin Volescu (1936) .... Gräfin Volescu
   9. Mazurka (1935) .... Vera, Singer
10. Fanatisme (1934) .... Rosine Savelli
11. A Woman Commands (1932) .... Madame Maria Draga/Queen Draga of Serbia
      ... aka Maria Draga (Australia)
12. The Way of Lost Souls (1929) .... Louise
      ... aka The Woman He Scorned
13. The Woman from Moscow (1928) .... Princess Fedora
14. Loves of an Actress (1928) .... Rachel
15. Three Sinners (1928) .... Baroness Gerda Wallentin
16. The Secret Hour (1928) .... Amy
      ... aka Beggars of Love
17. The Woman on Trial (1927) .... Julie
18. Barbed Wire (1927) .... Mona Moreau
19. Hotel Imperial (1927) .... Anna Sedlak
20. Good and Naughty (1926) .... Germaine Morris
21. The Crown of Lies (1926) .... Olga Kriga
22. A Woman of the World (1925) .... Countess Elnora Natatorini
23. Flower of Night (1925) .... Carlota y Villalon
24. The Charmer (1925) .... Mariposa
25. East of Suez (1925) .... Daisy Forbes
26. Forbidden Paradise (1924) .... Catherine (the Czarina)
27. Lily of the Dust (1924) .... Lily
      ... aka The Song of Songs (Australia)
28. Men (1924) .... Cleo
29. Shadows of Paris (1924) .... Claire, Queen of the Apaches
30. The Spanish Dancer (1923) .... Gypsy fortune teller
31. The Cheat (1923) .... Carmelita De Bórdoba
32. Flamme, Die (1923) .... Yvette
      ... aka Montmartre
33. Bella Donna (1923) .... Bella Donna (Ruby)
34. The Last Payment (1922)
35. Sappho (1921) .... Sappho
      ... aka Mad Love (USA)
36. Bergkatze, Die (1921) .... Rischka
      ... aka The Wildcat
37. Geschlossene Kette, Die (1920)
38. Martyrium, Das (1920) .... Gattin
39. Sumurun (1920) .... Yannaia, a Dancer
      ... aka One Arabian Night
40. Arme Violetta (1920) .... Violetta
      ... aka Camille
      ... aka The Red Peacock
41. Marchesa d'Armiani, Die (1920) .... Marchesa Assunta
42. Komtesse Dolly (1919)
43. Madame DuBarry (1919) .... Madame Du Barry
      ... aka Passion
44. Vendetta (1919) .... Marianna Paoli
45. Kreuzigt sie! (1919) .... Maria
      ... aka Frau am Scheideweg, Die (Germany: censored version)
46. Rausch (1919)
      ... aka Intoxication
47. Carmen (1918) .... Carmen
      ... aka Gypsy Blood (USA)
48. Gelbe Schein, Der (1918) .... Lea, the Professor's Adopted Daughter
      ... aka The Devil's Pawn (USA)
49. Augen der Mumie Ma, Die (1918) .... Ma
      ... aka Eyes of the Mummy Ma (USA)
      ... aka The Eyes of the Mummy
50. Mania. Die Geschichte einer Zigarettenarbeiterin (1918) .... Mania
51. Surogaty lyubvi (1918) .... Lead
      ... aka Love's Surrogates (International: English title: informal literal title)
52. Wenn das Herz in Haß erglüht (1918) .... Ilja Vörösz
53. Nicht lange täuschte mich das Glück (1917)
54. Jego ostatni czyn (1917)
55. Pokój nr 13 (1917)
      ... aka Tajemnica hotelu (Poland)
      ... aka Wanda Barska (Poland)
56. Arabella (1917)
57. Tajemnica Alei Ujazdowskich (1917)
      ... aka Tajemnica Alei Róz (Poland)
58. Bestia (1917) .... Pola Basznikow
      ... aka Beast (USA: literal English title)
      ... aka Kochanka apasza (Poland)
      ... aka The Polish Dancer (USA)
59. Studenci (1916) .... Pola, Jan's and Stasia's daughter
      ... aka Students (USA: literal English title)
60. Zona (1915) .... Helena Kazicka
61. Niewolnica zmyslów (1914) .... Pola, dancer
      ... aka Sklavin der Sinne (Germany)
62. Raba strastei, raba poroka (1914)
      ... aka Slave of Passion, Slave of Vice (International: English title)
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