InfoPersons, originating from Poland
Pola Negri
Born: January 3, 1897 as Barbara Apolonia Chałupec in Lipno, then Russian EmpireDied: August 1, 1987 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Pola Negri was a 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 studied ballet and acting in Warsaw, becoming a well-known stage actress there. In 1917 she went to Germany, where she began appearing in silent films for the Berlin-based UFA studio. Her film performances for UFA draw attention of Hollywood executives at Paramount Pictures. In 1922 she signed a contract with Paramount. She spent much of the 1920s working in the United States appearing in numerous films for Paramount, establishing herself as one of the most popular actresses in American silent film. In the 1930s during the emergence of the sound film, Negri returned to Europe where she appeared in multiple films for Pathé Films and UFA,
Pola Negri on a
Polish stamp released in 1996
and also began a career as a recording artist.
She would make only two films afterPolish stamp released in 1996
1940, with her last screen credit in Walt Disney's The Moon-Spinners (1964).
She became a naturalised U.S. citizen in 1951, and spent the rest of her life living in San Antonio.
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