POLA NEGRI (c.1920's) Personality Postcard #03

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Original Price: $25.00

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Item Number: PC-NEGRI-03

Artist/Photographer: Verlag Ross

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Offered here is a vintage original Silent Era postcard featuring POLA NEGRI, one of the most collectible of the Silent Era actresses in today's market. The image features a medium shot of Miss Negri smiling as she wears a gorgeous white fur wrap and a string of pearls around her neck and right wrist and a pearl ring on her right hand.. Measuring approximately 3.5 x 5.25 in., this vintage original postcard was printed in Germany and is uncirculated and in very fine condition with a small area of light staining on the verso along the bottom and a few numbers written in pencil on the right portion of the verso.

Pola Negri was born in Poland and moved to Warsaw as a young child. Living in poverty with her mother, a teenage Pola auditioned and was accepted to the Imperial Ballet. Due to an illness which ended her dancing career, she soon switched to the Warsaw Imperial Academy of Dramatic Arts and became an actress. By 17, she was a star on the stage in Warsaw, but World War I would soon change the theater scene. Without the theater, Pola turned to films. With her new career in pictures and her stage success in Sumurun, she went to Berlin and was teamed with German Director Ernst Lubitsch. The Lubitsch-Negri combination was very successful and the roles that Pola played were earthy, exotic, strong women. One of her films, Madame DuBarry (1919), was optioned and retitled as Passion (1919) for distribution in the U.S. The film was such a success that by 1922, Pola and Lubitsch were both given contracts to work in Hollywood. While her first few films showed some success, they were overshadowed by her reported romances with such stars as Charles Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino. Forbidden Paradise (1924), made with Director Lubitsch, and Hotel Imperial (1927) were two of her more successful films. But three things conspired to end her career in Hollywood. The display that she put on at the funeral of Valentino in 1926, changed the public mood towards her. The Hays Office codes which would not allow filming the very traits that made her a sex-siren European star. And finally, her thick accent would not play in the sound pictures that were coming into vogue. Pola Negri returned to Europe and eventually made films for UFA, which was under Nazi management. In 1941, Pola returned to American penniless. She made the movie Hi Diddle Diddle in 1943 and became an American citizen in 1951. Her next and last movie wasThe Moon-Spinners (1964).