Pola Negri: Hollywood Legend, Part 1

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This is Part One of a teaser for the documentary film "Pola Negri: Life is a Dream in Cinema" (2006), directed by Mariusz Kotowski. Features clips from the Pola Negri films "Shadows of Paris" (1924), "Barbed Wire" (1927), "Passion" aka "Madame DuBarry" (1919), "The Spanish Dancer" (1923), and from the Rudolph Valentino film "Son of the Sheik" (1926).

Interviews are with Jeanine Basinger, A.C. Lyles (producer, Paramount Pictures), Alfred Allan Lewis (Ghostwriter of Pola's autobiography "Memoirs of a Star"), and Emily Leider (author of Rudolph Valentino autobiography "Dark Lover").

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Film & Animation

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• Pola Negri
• documentary
• Mariusz Kotowski
• Hollywood
• silent films
• actress
• vamp
• Shadows of Paris
• Barbed Wire
• Passion
• Madame DuBarry
• Son of the Sheik
• The Spanish Dancer
• Interview
• Jeanine Basinger
• Agnieszka Zakreta
• Miss Illinois
• 2003
• Alfred Allan Lewis
• ghostwriter
• Memoirs of a Star
• Emily Leider
• Rudolph Valentino
• autobiography
• Dark Lover

[brightshiningcity]

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[juanitat10]

she was a despicable bitch who used Rudolph in his death to get attention for herself

[deepseadirt1]

2:50 Jeanine Basinger, historian, goofs bigtime. When "The Sheik" starring Valentino premiered in 1921, Pola wasn't/couldn't be with him as she hadn't yet immigrated to America, which she would in 1923. She couldn't be talking about Pola on the arm of Valentino at "Son of the Sheik" as that film was released after Valentino died. Lastly, Grauman's Chinese Theater was completed in 1927, it didn't exist in 1921.

[Serenadesong]

@myan84 Beethoven "Moonlight sonata".

[ccipollini1984]

@deepseadirt1

her goofs are legendary. She is so painfully inconsistent all the time. Why TCM always recruits her is beyond me. She's awful.

[myan84]

Hey can you please say what is the melody/song used at the beginning of this movie??? It's Chopin right? what's the title?

[Effa8888]

Hi, please remember that we do not live in those times and we were not close to PN or RV to comment their behaviours. I have just finished to read one of Pola's biography where is stated that Rudolf was the biggest love of her life and that she was so in despair on the funeral, she couldn't stop herself from crying. Media couldn't miss such opportunity to criticise that she just make her promotion. Media those times were almost the same like todays- preying on famous people.

[ccipollini1984]

@jahlaune

I agree. Gloria was a consumate actress and stood the test of time.

I love how butthurt her defenders get if you (god forbid) disagree with them.

You know who you are.

[LouLou2u2]

@juanitat10 no. He's 52 and from Denmark