Disney produced this distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children. Hayley Mills stars as...
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1964
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In the tradition of Hellzapoppin', Hi Diddle Diddle is an all-stops-out "screwball comedy" populated by certifiable zanies....
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Genya Smetana
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1943
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This German adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary seldom appears in the standard movie source books (certainly never...
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Emma Bovary
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1937
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1937
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In this romantic melodrama, a widowed Russian noblewoman finds her torn asunder by the 1917 revolution. Just before she is...
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Olga Petrowna
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1936
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Absent from the screen since 1932, Pola Negri made the first of several comebacks in the German melodrama Mazurka. Negri is...
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1936
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1934
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A Woman Commands is often cited as silent screen star Pola Negri's first talking picture. Actually, it was her first...
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Mme. Maria Draga
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1932
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Considered washed up in Hollywood, silent-screen queen Pola Negri made her talkie debut in the British The Woman He Scorned....
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1930
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In this drama, a young lighthouse keeper must row to town after he accidentally breaks one of the lenses of his light. While...
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1929
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The Secret Hour was the first of three screen versions of Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They...
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Amy
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1928
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Victorien Sardou's 1882 stage play Fedora was transformed by future director John Farrow into the Pola Negri vehicle The...
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Princess Fedora
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1928
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Rachel
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1928
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Baroness Gerda Wallentin (Pola Negri) walks out on her philandering husband Count Dietrich (Paul Lukas) and heads to Vienna....
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Baroness Gerda Wallentin
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1928
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Pola Negri and director Mauritz Stiller fail to make much of this somber and unoriginal melodrama, which was based on the...
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Julie
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1927
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Barbed Wire was based on The Woman of Knockaloe, an antiwar novel by Sir Hall Caine. The original novel dealt with the...
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Mona
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1927
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Anna Sedlak
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1927
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Pola Negri is her usual overstated self in the outlandish comedy-melodrama Crown of Lies. Negri plays Olga, an immigrant girl...
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Olga Kriga
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1926
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Mal St. Clair, one of the best of the many imitation Lubitsches of the 1920s, called the shots on Good and Naughty....
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Germaine Morris
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1926
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Daisy Forbes
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1925
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Mariposa (Pola Negri) is a dancer in a Spanish café who is discovered by theatrical manager Señor Sprotti (Cesare Gravina)...
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Mariposo
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1925
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This sophisticated and well-made comedy-drama was one of Pola Negri's best vehicles for Paramount. More often than not, the...
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Countess Elnora Natatorini
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1925
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According to the Paramount publicity mill, Joseph Hergesheimer wrote this unoriginal tale of California's early days...
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Carlotta y Villalan
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1925
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After her brilliant career in Europe, Pola Negri, came to America to make films for Paramount. Her first few pictures for the...
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Cleo
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1924
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Catherine, the Czarina
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1924
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It's a mystery why Paramount released this terrible film. Actress Pola Negri had filmed it years before in Europe and it was...
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1924
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Lily
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1924
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The premise is clichéd -- it's the usual tale of a pretty girl from the sticks trying to break into movies -- but this satire...
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1923
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Paramount brought the exotic Pola Negri over from Europe, and then it seemed like they didn't know what to do with her. Bella...
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Carmelita de Cordoba
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1923
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This melodrama was the last German-made film starring Pola Negri to be released in the United States. By the time it came...
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1923
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The rights to Don Cesar, the novel by Vicente Blasco-Ibanez, were originally purchased by Paramount as a vehicle for Rudolph...
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maritana, a gypsy dancer
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1923
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In her autobiography, Pola Negri claims she felt dubious about playing the lead role in this exotic drama based on the novel...
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Bella Donna (Ruby)
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1923
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Although her excellent work for German studio UFA got Pola Negri a Hollywood movie contract, not all the films she made...
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Violette
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1922
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Hollywood actors who were tied to studio contracts often complained loudly about the quality of material they were given....
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Lea, adopted daughter
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1922
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Considering the poor quality of this UFA-produced melodrama starring Pola Negri and Emil Jannings, it's quite likely the two...
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Mara
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1922
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The free-spirited daughter of a dangerous bandit falls for a handsome lieutenant in director Ernst Lubitsch's classic 1921...
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1921
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As a star in Germany Pola Negri became known for her costume dramas. This picture was only the second time she was placed in...
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Lola
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1921
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When this German-produced film reached the U.S., it was touted as the first Pola Negri film that wasn't a costume drama. In...
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Marianna Paoli
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1921
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One Arabian Night is the inadequate American title bestowed upon director Ernst Lubitsch's brilliant German drama Sumurun. In...
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Taenzerin (Dancer)
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1921
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Before he became world-famous for his sophisticated sex farces, Ernst Lubitsch was primarily a director of outsized German...
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1919
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World-renowned European actress Marguerite Sylva joined the legions of top female personalities who played Merimee's tragic...
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1918
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The Ernst Lubitsch/Pola Negri version of Prosper Merimee's Carmen was filmed in Germany in 1918, but not released in the U.S....
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1918
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1916
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