Pola Negri
Also Known As: Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec, Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec, Apolonia Chałupiec
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lipno, Poland
Adult: No
Birthday: January 03, 1897
Age: 128 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 01, 1987
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The Eyes of the Mummy
Overview: Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.
Genres: Drama Horror Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-10-03
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The Moon-Spinners
Overview: Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there is nice English lad Mark to make friends with, at least until Stratos and his pal take a shot at him one night. When Nikky helps him hide she finds the Greeks are after her too.
Genres: Mystery Family Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-08
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Yesterday and Today
Overview: A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-02
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Madame DuBarry
Overview: The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-09-18
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Hi Diddle Diddle
Overview: When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-02
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Sumurun
Overview: The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-09-01
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The Wildcat
Overview: A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-14
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Overview: A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-24
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The Spanish Dancer
Overview: The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position, Maritana wishes to be a Countess. Her ambitions are realized when she meets the handsome Count Don Cesar de Bazán, if only the King of Spain would stay out of their way!
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-06
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Hotel Imperial
Overview: During World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge in a small hotel, where he is hidden by the establishment's chambermaid. The two fall in love, but a Russian general makes the hotel his headquarters and sets his sights on the maid. In addition, the Austrian must find out the identity of a spy who is feeding the Russians military information that could lead to the destruction of the Austrian army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Carmen
Overview: The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-12-20
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The Yellow Ticket
Overview: "The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a German project shot partially in Warsaw. A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression. Lea, as played by Negri, is at a disadvantage as a woman, an orphan and a Jew -- and yet has immense persistence and an insatiable ambition of becoming a doctor. The film includes more than one plot twist (the final one further complicating the issue of Lea's identity), but it's first and foremost a testimony to a spirit impossible to suppress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-21
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Mad Love
Overview: Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A friend takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets him, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas to be institutionalised. Sappho genuinely falls in love with Richard, and decides to leave her vampy ways and her older lover behind her so that she can have him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-09-09
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Barbed Wire
Overview: During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-09
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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Overview: From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a popular icon since the 1930s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Mazurka
Overview: A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-11-14
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A Woman of the World
Overview: A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather puritanical community members.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-28
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Moskau - Shanghai
Overview: A drama film directed by Paul Wegener.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-10-07
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Die Flamme
Overview: In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-02-02
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Forbidden Paradise
Overview: Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarded with her love. Infatuated, he deserts his sweetheart, Anna, the Czarina's lady-in-waiting, only to discover that his Queen is far from true to him. Desperate, he joins the revolutionists and plots against her. The Czarina pleads that she loves only him, and he swears no harm will befall her. Meantime the chancellor nips the revolution in the bud, and the Czarina orders Alexei's arrest. But she causes herself such unhappiness in doing so that she releases him from prison, relinquishes him to Anna, and seeks solace in a new affair with the French Ambassador
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-01-02
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Madame Bovary
Overview: A drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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Slave of Her Senses
Overview: Pola is a beautiful but poor girl, a locksmith's daughter. Unexpectedly, she's successful as a stage dancer. After her success, she breaks with her fiancé and becomes the lover of a rich admirer. However, the fiancé does not accept her departure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1914-01-02
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Die Nacht der Entscheidung
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-22
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Tango Notturno
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-12-23
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The Golden Twenties
Overview: Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-08
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East of Suez
Overview: After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that she has become a social outcast, owing to the public revelation that the oriental nurse who raised her was actually her mother...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-12
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Bella Donna
Overview: Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-03-31
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The Woman He Scorned
Overview: A lighthouse keeper's wife shelters her fugitive lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-20
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The Polish Dancer
Overview: A wild young girl runs away from her parents' house to support herself and attracts the attentions of a married man, who is prepared to abandon his wife and child for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1917-01-05
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Pola Negri: Life of a Star
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-03
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Arabella
Overview: A silent film directed by Aleksander Hertz.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-01
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His Last Gesture
Overview: A silent film directed by Aleksander Hertz.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1917-09-28
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The Woman from Moscow
Overview: A princess falls in love with the man who killed her cousin. The lover swears it was in self-defense. A lost film.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-03
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The Wife
Overview: A silent film directed by Jan Pawłowski.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1915-10-05
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Shadows of Paris
Overview: A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-17
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The Cheat
Overview: After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexual favors in return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-27
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The Charmer
Overview: A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The Charmer," Mariposa becomes the toast of two continents. Among her most ardent admirers are Ralph Bayne, a millionaire playboy, and his chauffeur, Dan Murray, both of whom first met her in Spain. Madly in love with Bayne, Mrs. Sedgwick invites Mariposa and her mother to a weekend party in a deliberate attempt to humiliate the beautiful dancer. Bayne quickly realizes that Mariposa is out of place in high society, and, determining to make her his mistress, takes her home with him. Mrs. Sedgwick unexpectedly arrives at Bayne's swank suite ( followed by her suspicious husband), and Mariposa protects the society woman's reputation at the cost of her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-20
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Lily of the Dust
Overview: Lily, a poor and friendless orphan, is married to a sensual and elderly Colonel in the German army who divorces her when he finds her with a former officer sweetheart. Introduced by a girl friend to Bohemian society, Lily loses the love of the young officer and marries her former lover, a wealthy art connoisseur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-24
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Flower of Night
Overview: Triumph of the daughter of a cheated mine owner over a renegade and her love for the superintendent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-10-17
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Good and Naughty
Overview: Four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-07
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The Secret Hour
Overview: An Elderly fruit grower sends a photo of his foreman, not himself, to a waitress he wishes to marry. She falls in love with the foreman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-04
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The Woman on Trial
Overview: A story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long flashbacks of her testimony and life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-28
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The Crown of Lies
Overview: Olga Kriga, a New York boarding house maid, is loved by John Knight, an automobile salesman, asks her to wed him. One day in a delicatessen, she is seen by a foreigner, who immediately hails her as "Queen." He tells her the faithful cabinet is waiting nearby. The foreigner is a servant of the former prime minister and he insists that she is the long lost ruler of Sylvania, a small European country. Olga decides to pose as that lost queen of Sylvania, and travels to that Balkan country accompanied by Knight. Count Mirko, knowing her return will cause usurper troubles, plans to make it appear beneficial to be rid of Olga. However, the people of the country acclaim her as queen and, after a revolt, put her on the throne. Happiness has been restored to Sylvania, but Olga decides that she no longer to pose as a royal and returns to New York with Knight. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-27
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Three Sinners
Overview: A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-13
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Loves of an Actress
Overview: Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1928-08-18
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A Woman Commands
Overview: In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's career, his superior officer, Colonel Strádimirovitsch has an idea of how to fix it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-12
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Fanatisme
Overview: After many difficulties, the seductive Italian dancer, Rosine Savelli, manages to clear herself of a plot hatched against Napoleon III...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Die fromme Lüge
Overview: The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy day at the racetrack and that her career is thus at an end. Meanwhile, Cecil has fallen in love with the pretty Colette … without suspecting that her father, the wealthy Bartell, was a former lover of his mother and that he’s Cecil’s daddy. Thus, both Carmen and Bartell try to prevent the unfolding love-relationship between brother and sister, because this ain’t the Ozarks, you know! Only after the unhappy Cecil tries to commit suicide after an argument with his mother do Carmen and Bartell realize they still love one another. Suicide attempt be damned; let’s go out on a date! A movie that screams “Fun for the whole family.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-03-25
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Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Overview: Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort; Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez play golf; other celebrities are shown in Malibu Beach.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-01
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Mania
Overview: A beautiful cigarette factory worker becomes the face of the company's new marketing campaign. Soon she attracts the attention of two men - a talented young composer and an old rich patron of arts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1918-11-08
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Overview: Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Arme Violetta
Overview: A modern adaptation of Dumas' Camille.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-12-25
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Die Marchesa d'Arminiani
Overview: A police chief raids a gambling den, and arrests the elderly mother of the young Assunta. Though she pleads with him, he will not release her mother. Years later, Assunta plots her revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-05-26
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Vendetta
Overview: In Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to her. She swears vengeance and tracks the killer to Monte Carlo. There she falls in love with a handsome young officer, only to discover that he is the murderer she has sworn to punish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1919-08-22
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100 Years of the UFA
Overview: The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and the many and tumultuous events of contemporary Germany, and has always been the epicenter of the German film industry.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-08-28
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Nicht Lange Täuschte Mich das Glück
Overview: Pola Negri plays a dual supporting role as a nun and a cabaret dancer in this film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-11-01
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Kisses Stolen in the Dark
Overview: German silent film starring Pola Negri.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-01
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Rampant Blood
Overview: A german film released in 1917 starring Pola Negri.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-05-01
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Dead Eyes
Overview: German silent film starring Pola Negri.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-07-01
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Dämmerung des Todes
Overview: A 1919 film starring Pola Negri.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-01
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Wenn das Herz in Haß erglüht
Overview: German film from 1917 starring Pola Negri
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1917-10-01
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Rosen, die der Sturm Entblättert
Overview: German film from 1918 starring Pola Negri
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-08-17
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The Woman at the Crossroads
Overview: The Woman at the Crossroads (German: Kreuzigt sie!) is a 1919 German silent film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke and Albert Patry.[1] It is now believed to be a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-06-01
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The Last Payment
Overview: A beautiful woman of the Latin Quarter, marries a rich cattle owner Pedro Maurez from South America to live in peace and happiness. The arrival of young Parisian Paul Durand wets her interest again in the old haunts of Paris. When her husband is slain in an uprising of laborers, she is again thrown on her own resources.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-07-07
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Pokój nr 13
Overview: Part of a 3 part series (Mysteries of Warsaw).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1917-06-12
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Komtesse Doddy
Overview: Countess Doddy (German: Komtesse Doddy) is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke and Victor Janson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-11-01
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Mystery of Uyazdovsky Lane
Overview: Part of a 3 part series (Mysteries of Warsaw).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1917-02-25
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Czarna ksiazeczka
Overview: 'The Yellow Pass' An early version of Der Gelbe Schein (The Yellow Ticket).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-12-30
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Studenci
Overview: A lost film starring Pola Negri
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1916-11-21
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The Closed Chain
Overview: The Closed Chain (German: Die geschlossene Kette) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Pola Negri, Aud Egede-Nissen, and Carl Ebert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-12-10
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Intrigue
Overview: Intrigue or The Martyrium is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Pola Negri and Eduard von Winterstein.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-10-15
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Men
Overview: Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but instead she is taken to a baron, who betrays her. In spite of this inauspicious start, Cleo becomes a successful and renowned actress, but her feelings about men have never recovered. She loathes them and uses them only for the money they offer her, which she then hands over to a penniless girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-04
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Hollywood
Overview: Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-08-19
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