Word: negri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued. Princess Serge (Pola Negri) Mdivani, famed cinemactress: for $5.000; by Beltran Masses, Spanish painter; in Paris. Senor Masses alleged that Pola Negri had ordered a $5,000 portrait of herself, that she had specified a background to contain a dim, spectral Rudolph Valentino, that when the portrait was finished she refused to pay. Pola Negri said Senor Masses had begged for permission to paint her. He refused her offer to settle...
...Mayer). Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted-the play of the waitress from San Francisco who went to the country to marry a man she had never seen, who had proposed to her 'by mail- was made into a silent picture in 1928, with Pola Negri. It was called then The Secret Hour. A Lady to Love is less sophisticated than The Secret Hour but it is splendidly acted and well cast. Vilma Banky is the waitress, Edward G. Robinson the man she marries, Robert Ames the handsome farm hand whose photograph was deceitfully enclosed...