Lost Pola Negri Film Found
The News/Polskie Radio reports that an early (and thus far unnamed) Pola Negri vehicle has been discovered at Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia by the husband-and-wife team of Marek and Malgorzata Hendrykowski from Poznan University. Dating from the 1910s, the Polish production is a detective story set in Warsaw. The print has Italian subtitles and is said to be in good condition.
Born (Barbara) Apolonia Chalupiec in 1894 in Lipno, central Poland, Pola Negri began her show business career dancing with the Imperial Ballet in Warsaw, later enrolling in Poland’s Academy of Dramatic Arts. Following her stage debut in 1913, Negri rapidly ascended to the top of her profession, and by the late 1910s she had become a [...]
by Andre Soares | December 29, 2008
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Tags: Charles Chaplin, Classic Movies, Ernst Lubitsch, Gloria Swanson, Gypsy Blood, Lesbian Interest, Mazurka, Pola Negri, Rudolph Valentino, Silent Films, The Moon-Spinners
San Sebastián 2006: Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective
One of the highlights of this year’s San Sebastián International Film Festival is a mouth-wateringly thorough Ernst Lubitsch Retrospective.
Besides the obligatory titles, such as the witty 1939 comedy of bright lights and Communism, Ninotchka, and the delightful 1934 version of The Merry Widow, the retrospective is also showcasing a large number of Lubitsch rarities (including a few fragments of mostly lost films), ranging from his earliest work in Germany — among them several Pola Negri vehicles and the gender-bending 1918 comedy Ich möchte kein Mann sein / I Don’t Want to Be a Man, starring the German Mary Pickford, Ossi Oswalda — to some of his little seen Hollywood films, such as the 1931 psychological drama Broken Lullaby / [...]
by Andre Soares | September 26, 2006
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Tags: Classic Movies, Ernst Lubitsch, Film Festivals, Mary Pickford, Ossi Oswalda, Pola Negri, Pre-Code Hollywood, San Sebastian Film Festival, Silent Films, The Patriot
