Word: appollonia
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...rounder-faced Pola Negri (Polish-born Appollonia Chalupec), 43, siren of the silent movies, was welcomed back to Hollywood for a comedy role in Hi Diddle Diddle. Said the twice-divorced Valentino-age vamp, who left the U.S. in 1932 to make German and French films: "All I want now is to marry, have children, and stage another great success in pictures...
Because a Paris weekly (Pour Vous) reported that she had been angling for a job as Nazi propagandist, sullen-eyed, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec), 40, got herself up in a salmon-pink outfit, stormed into court, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. Last week Cinemactress Negri was awarded 10,000 francs (about...
...Bovary (Terra). Last spring Paris-Soir aired the rumor that Adolf Hitler's middleaged, platonic fancy had turned from red-haired 29-year-old cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl (who in three years as his favorite had risen to ranking Nazi film authority) to 38-year-old Pola Negri (born Appollonia Chalupec), whose round poll and lank black hair once marked her as the No. 1 vamp of the screen. Bogeyman Paul Joseph Goebbels was reported frightening Fraulein Riefenstahl by denouncing her for non-Aryan ancestry (TIME, June 21). The Fuhrer, having searched Pola's title to Aryanism, took special...
...hollow-eyed Pola Negri, oldtime cinemactress whose professional peak was reached in 1920 in Passion, found herself in serious difficulties with peppery little German Minister for Propaganda Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. In the belief that Cinemactress Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec) was a Polish Jewess, Minister Goebbels refused her permission to act in Germany. Suddenly this order was overruled by the Führer himself. "Investigation," read the official communiqué, "instituted by the Reichsführer has established that Pola Negri is Polish and therefore Aryan" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Pink with pleasure, Actress Negri cried: "The whole world...
Pola Negri (Appollonia Chalupez), famed Polish cinemactress, rode horseback in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. With her rode her husband, Prince Serge Mdivani. When a clattering motorcycle startled her mount, Actress Negri tumbled off. Surgeons found serious injuries but pronounced her safe...
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