- On her deathbed in 1987, the 90-year-old Negri was being attended by a handsome young doctor who looked at her chart, and failed to respond immediately to seeing her name. In her best Norma Desmond mode, she reportedly pulled herself up into a "movie star" pose and asked, "You don't know who I am?!?!?".
- She was engaged to Charles Chaplin before she became involved with Rudolph Valentino.
- Around the time of her death, she was suffering from a brain tumor (unclear if malignant or otherwise) for which she refused treatment.
- In her autobiography, she stated that Rudolph Valentino was the love of her life and said that they were engaged at the time of his death. Ben Lyon later claimed that she ordered a blanket of flowers to be placed across Rudy's coffin, reading "P-O-L-A" in large letters. However, photographs of Valentino's funeral show that flowers draped over his coffin had no such lettering and no contemporary newspaper accounts support this claim.
- When Rudolph Valentino died in August of 1926, Negri claimed to have been engaged to marry him, and set out from Hollywood by train to attend his funeral in New York. During the trip, Negri collapsed several times. The perception that she used her lover's death as a publicity stunt damaged her reputation.
- At the funeral of alleged lover, Rudolph Valentino, she collapsed with crying fits at the casket. Malicious tongues described this scene as her best performance of her career.
- "Film Daily", Monday, July 3, 1939--Paris (by cable): Pola Negri appeared in court here on the weekend to ask 1,000,000-franc damages as the result of an article appearing in the "Paris Sun" newspaper which represented her as a friend of Adolf Hitler. She was described by two witnesses as having suffered much moral damage by the allegation. The actress remained silent throughout the proceedings, during which the paper's defense counsel tried to show that knowing Hitler was no slander.
- Scandals in the 20's were absolute career killers, also Pola Negri's popularity sunk continuously, moreover her Polish accent was a problem for the arising sound film.
- In 1975, director Vincente Minnelli approached Negri to appear as the Contessa Sanziani in A Matter of Time (1976), but Negri was unable to accept due to poor health. In 1978, Billy Wilder directed Fedora (1978). Although Negri does not appear in the film, the title character was largely based on her.
- Negri made eight films with director Ernst Lubitsch between 1918 and 1925. Seven were made in Germany and their eighth and final film together was Forbidden Paradise (1924), which was filmed in the United States.
- At the beginning of World War II, she lived in France. She later she went back to the USA via Portugal where she appeared once more in a film called "Hi Diddle Diddle" (1943). She sailed to New York from Lisbon, Portugal, and initially lived by selling off jewelry.
- Her marriage with Charles Chaplin announced in 1922, but nothing came of the announcement and their liaison ended with public insults.
- She made her debut with Slave of Sin (1914), a film in which she personified the vamp archetype for which she would become famous.
- According to her autobiography, she also appeared in a Boston supper club engagement in 1945 for a repertoire centered around the song "Paradise", and retired from the entertainment business altogether.
- Sister-in-law of Mae Murray and Barbara Hutton.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986- 1990, pages 652-654. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- In 1902 she attended a ballet school but was later impeded in dancing because of an illness. Therefore she adopted a different method and attended a theater school in Warsaw in order to become an actress.
- The film Passion (1919) was also a great success in the United States, and Adolph Zukor contractually obligated her to Paramount.
- After her Hollywood forays, Pola Negri returned to Europe. She made a successful comeback in Germany with Mazurka (1935), and she was able to take part in Madame Bovary (1937), Tango Notturno (1937) and Die Nacht der Entscheidung (1938) in the following years.
- She made the headlines with her numerous affairs.
- Like many a European actress imported to Hollywood in the silent film era, Negri achieved stardom based on her looks alone. Movie-goers had no idea that she spoke almost no English, and had a thick, gutteral Polish accent, which they would discover when Negri made her "talkie" debut...
- Pola Negri was the first notable German actress to travel to the United States where she appeared in Bella Donna (1923). Her fame in Europe was quickly surpassed by her fame in America, and she achieved her greatest successes with Forbidden Paradise (1924) and Hotel Imperial (1927).
- In 1951, she she became an American citizen, and took up a second successful career as a realtor.
- She made her debut at the theater in 1912 and got soon first leading roles.
- In 1964, two decades after she retired from the screen, Negri accepted a pivotal supporting role in the Walt Disney thriller The Moon Spinners. She played an exotic millionairess to whom Haley Mills turns for help in solving a mystery. It proved to be Negri's final film appearance.
- After some Polish film productions she went to Germany in 1917 where she achieved first glorious triumphs. The movies made one of the greatest stars of Pola Negri und she soon belonged together with Henny Porten and Asta Nielsen to the triumvirate of German artists.
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