Word: pola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montmartre they fall in love on July 13th. They talk in the street, that night go to the street ball after she has lost her job in a cabaret for slapping an old drunkard (Paul Olivier). That night the taxi-driver's wanton, black-haired ex-mistress (Pola Illery) moves in on him and he moves out. When the blonde finds the brunette's clothes in his room next morning, she breaks off with him. While he is dancing that night with the brunette at the street ball, the blonde's mother dies. He falls into...
...Annabella, half ingénue, half adult, whom he found for Le Million. There is stubborn-mouthed, idealistic Georges Rigaud and Raymond Cordy with the sliding, friendly black eyes, the temper that all his huge patience cannot control, hero of A Nous La Liberté. There is beautiful, sluttish Pola Illery. There is aristocratic Paul Olivier who plays in July 14 one of the funniest drunks ever seen. There are half a dozen marvelous character actors whom Clair uses to fill Frenchmen. French critics found that he had used all this to achieve "poetic aura,' "poetic realism...
...Swanson had just married a French Marquis. Pouting blonde Mae Murray, then at the height of her career, decided that she too could afford a title. She took as her fourth husband Prince David Mdivani. With David married. Brother Serge, the handsomest, promptly arrived, to be snapped up by Pola Negri...
...husbands, the two Hollywood Mdivanis proved an expensive luxury. With the first pinch of Depression, Pola Negri decided to get rid of her handsome Prince Serge. While Mae Murray was pondering whether to divorce her David, he and Brother Serge struck oil back of her bath house at Venice, Calif. They organized the Pacific Shore Oil Co. with Actress Murray putting up most of the cash. Stock was sold to every available member of the cinema colony. Divorced by Pola Negri, Serge's second venture was to marry Chicago Opera Singer Mary McCormic...
...Brother David married Film Actress Mae Murray; Brother Serge married Film Actress Pola Negri, then Soprano Mary McCormic; Sister Roussadana married Artist Jose Maria Sert...