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March 14, 2012
Obituaries
Pola Negri, the silent screen “vamp” whose passion on film was more than matched by highly publicized off-screen love affairs with Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino, has died in a hospital in San Antonio, Tex.
Aug. 3, 1987
Travel & Experiences
“Please don’t write that I’m old,” said Pola Negri. “Just say that all my dear friends are dead.”
Aug. 9, 1987
Entertainment & Arts
Pola Negri, the silent screen actress who died Saturday in San Antonio, Tex., will be buried at 10 a.m.
Aug. 4, 1987
Movies
The will of silent screen star Pola Negri bequeathed the bulk of her estate to institutions in San Antonio, Tex., the city where she spent her final years.
Aug. 7, 1987
Real Estate
As the legend goes, silent screen star Rudolph Valentino commissioned this Spanish-style residence in Whitley Heights for his mistress, stage and film actress Pola Negri, in the early 1920s.
Oct. 22, 2015
B esides her out-of-print autobiography, “Memoirs of a Star, (Doubleday, 1969), Pola Negri also wrote about her views on film making in “La Vie et Le Reve au Cinema” (Life and Dream in the Cinema), published in the ‘20s.
Paramount’s 1927 “Hotel Imperial” (at the Silent Movie Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.) brought together some legendary names: Germany’s greatest producer Erich Pommer; top Swedish director Mauritz Stiller, who came to Hollywood with his protegee, Greta Garbo, in tow but completed only two pictures here, this being the first; Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson’s chief rival at the studio, and also “Hell’s Angels” co-star James Hall.
June 3, 1991
This Spanish-style home behind gates in Whitley Heights was said to have been built by silent film actor Rudolph Valentino for his mistress, Pola Negri, in the early 1920s.