Word: chalupec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pola Negri, née Apollonia Chalupec,* is reported to have been born in 1) Bromberg; 2) Yanowa; 3) Lipno. She was almost certainly born in Poland. Less certain is her birth year-which is variously given anywhere from 1897 to 1899. According to Pola it is 1903. Her father, George Chalupec, is reported to have been a gypsy, a Polish fabric merchant, a wealthy Hungarian farmer who died in 1905, was shipped to Siberia for taking part in the Russian Revolution of 1905, was abandoned by his Polish wife and daughter, killed by Cossacks...
...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...