Title supplied by cataloger. Pola Negri (1897-1987) was a Polish stage and film actress and singer who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film. Negri signed with Paramount in 1922, making her the first European actress in history to be contracted in Hollywood, and spent 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 sound film, Negri returned to Europe where she appeared in multiple films and also began a career as a recording artist. She made only two films after 1940 and spent her later life largely outside the public sphere. Pola Negri became a U.S. citizen in 1951 and spent the remainder of her life living in San Antonio, Texas, where she died of pneumonia secondary to a brain tumor for which she refused treatment, in 1987, aged 90. View of Poli Negri sitting in the middle of a group of construction workers, two of whom are holding hammers, while several are wearing construction gloves. The location is unknown and no further information has been given. Photograph circa 1925.
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image
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1 negative : safety ; 25 x 20 cm. Photographic safety negatives
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