The
POLA NEGRI
Appreciation Site
POLA POLA POLA!
POLA
NEGRI: the silent and early talkie film actress who was:
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Born in Poland, "made" in Germany, stolen by Hollywood.
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A celebrity in America, an artist in Europe.
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Lover to Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, and Rod La Roque;
wife to a count and a prince. -
A high-grossing Nazi film star who would not bow to the idol of fascism.
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A "vamp" by reputation, a tragedienne in practice, but
a stunningly gifted actress in truth.
The Pola Negri Appreciation Site is dedicated to preserving the memory of
one of the great actresses of the early film.
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News
12-13-09:
Review
of Asta Nielsen DVD
featuring Asta's complete Danish films
I'm a huge Asta Nielsen fan and I've been wanting to add some reviews of Asta Nielsen's movies to the Pola site for a long time. And we have finally done that with a review of the Danish Film Institute's DVD release which features the Complete Danish Films of Asta Nielsen.
Click here to read the review.
Asta Nielsen was a huge German silent movie star in the 1910's and early 1920's. I like to think of her as Pola Negri's big sister because she is a similarly great actress that pulls you into her world and makes you believe that she really is whatever character she is playing. Three of the films in this DVD release are monumental works of art that are literally as important as Birth of a Nation in their importance to the development of cinema.
Here is a very sexy clip from the first and most famous of these films, 1910's Afgrunden (The Abyss):
News (9-24-09):
Ladies of the German Cinema for best initial
sales!
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Great
news! Grapevine Video's new Ladies of the German Cinema DVD
had the best initial sales EVER for a DVD released by that company.
A full one-fifth of the entire pressing was sold during the pre-order
period (see below). Congratulations, Grapevine Video! It's
exciting to see the demand for Pola movies becoming this strong!
By the way, if you missed the $5 off pre-order discount, all is not
lost! You can still receive $2 off the Ladies
of the German Cinema DVD as a reader of the Pola Negri
Appreciation Site! Here's what to do:
1.
Go to
Grapevine
Video's Ladies
of the German Cinema
page.
2.
Click the "Add to Cart"
button, and an
e-shopping cart page will come up.
3. In the "Customer Code" box
in the e-shopping cart page, type the letters "PNAS"
(for "Pola Negri Appreciation
Site") to receive your $2 discount on
Ladies of the German Cinema. The e-shopping cart will guide you from there.
And the deal gets sweeter. This $2 discount is available for every title you order! So you can order other titles while you're at it and receive $2 off each title. All of Grapevine Video's DVD's are Region 0, so playable worldwide.
News
(9-3-09):
Pre-order discount for Ladies of the German Cinema!
LADIES
OF THE GERMAN CINEMA
featuring
Pola Negri Sappho (1921) - Henny
Porten Backstairs (1921)
It's finally here! Today is the official release date of the
long-awaited Ladies of the German Cinema DVD. This double-feature
DVD includes the video debut of Pola's 1921 movie Sappho, and a
crisp new transfer of the influential Henny Porten film Backstairs (also
1921).
Retail for Ladies of the German Cinema will be $19.95, but until September
15, 2009, the DVD is available at a pre-order price of $14.45
US + shipping! (Offer
expired)
News (7-14-09):
Detailed review of HI DIDDLE DIDDLE (1943)
In May of 2009, Grapevine
Video released Pola's second to last film, Hi Diddle Diddle (1943),
on DVD. I now have a detailed review of the DVD up that you can read
by
clicking here.
Check out this new Rudolph Valentino Website!
Part
of the Pola Negri legend is her engagement to the legendary Rudolph Valentino at the
time of his death. And maybe the most conspicuous absence on the web
has been the lack of a strong, reputable Rudolph Valentino website that
the Pola Negri Appreciation Site could link to--until now.
Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing rudolphvalentino.org,
which is run by Los Angeles' nascent Rudolph Valentino Film
Festival. You know that Rudy's legacy is in good hands when the
website even takes to time to guide you through the myriad of books
written about Rudy and lets you know which are credible and which are pulp
(check that out here).
Rudy and his Falcon Lair couldn't ask for more deserving heirs!
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