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Pola Negri (3 January 1897 – 1 August 1987) was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles from the 1910s through the 1940s during the Golden Era of Hollywood film. She was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood, and became a great American star. She also started several important women's fashion trends. She is known for being one of the most popular stars of the silent film era, and her varied career included work as an actress in silent and talking films, theater, and vaudeville; as a singer and recording artist; as an author; and as a ballerina.
Negri was born Apolonia Chalupec (or Chałupiec) according to her birth record and autobiography in Lipno, Vistula Land, Russian Empire (present-day Poland). She was the youngest of three children, but because the first two died young, she grew up as an only child. Her mother, whose maiden name was Eleonora Kiełczewska, was reportedly impoverished Polish royalty, and her father, Jerzy Chalupec, was a Slovak immigrant tinsmith. After Chalupec's father was arrested by the Russian authorities for revolutionary activities and sent to Siberia, she and her mother moved to Warsaw, where they lived in extreme poverty.
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor, known simply as "Valentino" and also an early pop icon. A sex symbol of the 1920s, Valentino was known as the "Latin Lover". He starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle and Son of the Sheik. He had applied for American citizenship shortly before his death.
His sudden death at age 31 caused mass hysteria among his female fans, further propelling him into icon status. Though his films are not as well known today, his name is still widely known.
Valentino was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina D'Antonguolla in Castellaneta, Puglia, Kingdom of Italy. His mother, Marie Berta Gabrielle (née Barbin; 1856–1919), was French, born in Lure in Lorraine. His father, Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fedele Guglielmi di Valentina D'Antonguolla, was Italian; he was a veterinarian who died of malaria when Valentino was 11. He had an older brother, Alberto (1892–1981), a younger sister, Maria, and an older sister Beatrice who died in infancy.
Actors: Debi Mazar (actress), Ione Skye (actress), Jennifer Tilly (actress), Maria Conchita Alonso (producer), Alan Heim (actor), Tippi Hedren (actress), Maria Conchita Alonso (actress), Laura Harring (actress), Phillip Bloch (actor), Phillip Bloch (producer), Marion Ramsey (actress), Rolonda Watts (actress), Stanley Sheff (writer), Stanley Sheff (producer), Stanley Sheff (actor),
Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History,Actors: Mike Myers (actor), Michael Fassbender (actor), Samuel L. Jackson (actor), Harvey Keitel (actor), Daniel Brühl (actor), Christian Brückner (actor), Bela B. Felsenheimer (actor), Wilfried Hochholdinger (actor), Enzo G. Castellari (actor), Sylvester Groth (actor), Christian Berkel (actor), Ken Duken (actor), Ken Duken (actor), Greg Nicotero (actor), Andrew Napier (actor),
Plot: In Nazi-occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actress, african-american, alternate-history, anger, anti-semitism, aunt-niece-relationship, austrian, autographActors: Alex Wurman (composer), Eva Mattes (actress), Helma Sanders-Brahms (miscellaneous crew), Percy Adlon (producer), Percy Adlon (writer), Percy Adlon (director), Maria Schicker (costume designer), Ila von Hasperg (editor), Eleonore Adlon (producer), Felix O. Adlon (actor), Benigna von Keyserlingk (producer), Irmgard Mahler (actress), Hannelore Plötz (actress), Helga Röthke (actress), Christine Every (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: António da Cunha Telles (producer), Manuela Maria (actress), Armando Cortez (actor), Manuel Mozos (editor), Guilherme Filipe (actor), Luís Lucas (actor), Carmen Santos (actress), Eduardo Geada (writer), Eduardo Geada (director), Augusto Portela (actor), Paulo Filipe (actor), Luís Pavão (actor), Benjamim Falcão (actor), Io Apolloni (actress), Norberto Barroca (writer),
Plot: Lisbon, early 1940s. The neutral port town is an open door to freedom, for those who are escaping the Nazi occupied France and eastern European countries, and a war field for spies of every description. Lisbon became a cosmopolitan town, where the Duke of Windsor, Primo de Rivera, Pola Negri, Leslie Howard, Walter Schellenberg and Juan Garcia are often together in the luxury hotels and night-clubs. Espionage and crime go hand in hand, despite of, or encouraged by, the Portuguese secret police.
Keywords: 1940sActors: Sadi Cabral (actor), Jorge Dória (actor), Nuno Leal Maia (actor), Anselmo Vasconcelos (actor), J.B. Tanko (producer), Chico Buarque de Hollanda (composer), Radamés Gnatalli (composer), Rafael Justo Valverde (editor), Nelson Rodrigues (writer), Ângela Leal (actress), Braz Chediak (director), Braz Chediak (writer), Vera Fischer (actress), Gilvan Pereira (writer), Monah Delacy (actress),
Plot: Glorinha, a middle-class 15 year old girl, always thought her mother Judite had killed herself, and that her father Gilberto has gone crazy as result. Her friend Nair takes her to a high-class bordello, where she wants to work. When uncle Raul, who raised her, discovers her prostitution, he decides to finally tell her all the truth about her parents' story.
Keywords: female-nudityGravely now we stare at indecision
Climbing stairs for sale is insufficient
Reading off the wall is too contagious
We're capable of more, is that suspicious?
Careful where you rest un-spinning
Don't be fooled by youth
And after all the stains have settled
There's nowhere you're from
Stairs are always left with limits
Won't there be a roof?
And as for all the change in schedule
Compared to hear who won
And maybe when you find it all again
(And you will)
Nothing's stopping, not ever here or there
And you rarely ever find it when you need
(You're still lookin')