"Pola Negri comes to Yorkshire!" -- Lady Crawley (Elizabeth McGovern), remarking on the makeover of Lady Mary in a 2015 episode of "Downton Abbey" I never met the woman who considered herself Rudolf ...

She dances with real snakes, becomes a Georgian prince’s wife and, in her autumn years, rejects an offer from Spielberg himself. Charlie Chaplin adores her, Rudolf Valentino falls in love with her and ...

Five European capitals hosted the refurbished version of the 1918 silent film “Mania. The Story of a Cigarette Factory Worker” – Paris, Madrid, London, Kiev and Berlin – with over 2,000 people ...

THE POLISH Institute in Bratislava is wrapping up Pola Negri - Film Legend, a fascinating exhibition about the Polish-born actress famous for her vamp roles in silent films and early talkies. THE ...

Negri starred in more than 60 American and European films. She is credited with creating a prototype of the femme fatale. "Pola Negri was a true diva in the full sense of the word," said Mariusz ...

The tragedy of silent cinema is that we have so little of it. Of all the films made in the silent era, no more than 20% are extant, and even fewer of those are available to be seen by the public. But ...