Talk:Pola Negri

Ambiguity
In 1927 Negri married Serge Mdivani, who claimed to be a Georgian prince and whose brother was married to Mae Murray (they divorced in 1929).
 * Did Pola and Serge divorce in 1929, or did Mae and Serge's brother? Chick Bowen 18:25, 30 January 2006 (UTC)


 * David Mdivani married Mae Murray in 1926, and they divorced in 1934.
 * Serge Mdivani married Pola Negri in 1927, and they divorced in 1929.
 * Alexius Mdivani married Louise Astor Van Alen in 1931 and they divorced in 1932.
 * Alexius Mdivani married Barbara Hutton in 1933 and they divorced in 1935.
 * Nina Mdivani married Dennis Conan Doyle, son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. - Nunh-huh 21:31, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

How is it possible to be a practicsing Roman Catholic and Bisexual? I think in the absence of sexual partners of the same sex it makes more sense to drop the mixed messages and leave it as Rudolph Valentino biographer thought so and Pola Negri biographer did not think she was Bisexual allowing people to make up their own mind with the evidence presented to them. Andrew Dock 65 (talk) 14:59, 28 May 2019 (UTC)


 * yes it is!https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_Catholics She lived with Margaret Webster for years, and was linked to Mercedes de Acosta 94.197.17.168 (talk) 11:40, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Picture
That picture of Pola Negri isn't very representative. Saxophobia 21:18, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

New picture
THANKS! to whomever uploaded the new Negri picture. It isn't exactly like her, but it's certainly the image she projected- sexuality that was high class and earthy at once. (I think this was her favorite portrait- she was photographed with it)Saxophobia 22:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Date of birth
Main article signs Pola Negri's date of birth as 3 January 1897, but the same article, chapter "Personal life", says Born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec on New Year's Eve,1894


 * I've always seen December 31st of 1894 or 1897 given as her birth date. This January 3 is news to me. This needs to be sorted. Crisso (talk) 12:30, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

(no edit to be added here, but date of birth/age at death still do not jive) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Twin21956 (talk • contribs) 13:59, 12 May 2008 (UTC)


 * It might have come from the Marion Davies article. Both were linked to from the article on Charlie Chaplin, and the links were placed close to one another within the Chaplin article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.203.81.220 (talk) 01:53, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

New improved version of Pola Negri Wiki
I just posted a new and improved version of the Pola Negri wiki. I spent a LOT of time perfecting it and adding new information, pictures, and sources.

You can look at a mirror version at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keyboard_warrior_killer/sandbox/Pola_Negri

and track the work that I did on it there. I tried as much as possible to base it off the existing information and essentially have it be an augmented version of what was already here.

Keyboard warrior killer (talk) 00:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Reading a 9-1-1922 paper, https://www.digifind-it.com/belmarweb/data/newspapers/1922/1922-09-01.pdf,
 * and the ad for the movie theater on page 8 lists Pola Negri in The Devil's Pawn, a Paramount picture.  Not sure if that changes the article that has 1923 as her first movie for Paramount. 108.53.123.61 (talk) 20:21, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Translation from Polish to English
The title of her 1915 film 'Czarna Książka' means 'The Black Book'. If you want to translate 'The Yellow Pass [ticket]' into Polish it's 'Żółto Bilet'.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Musicwriter (talk • contribs) 03:26, 11 December 2011 (UTC)


 * It's actually Żółty Bilet.  Volunteer Marek   05:30, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

B-class review
Failed due to insufficient inline citations. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:34, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Romani father ?
According to some Polish sources her father was Romani http://www.wprost.pl/ar/336743/Byla-pierwsza-celebrytka-Hollywood-25-lat-temu-zmarla-Pola-Negri/ Xx236 (talk) 12:12, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Year of birth
She was born on January 3, 1897 per her biographer, Mariusz Kotowski. This far outweighs an unreliable source like Find-a-Grave. She left no family, immediate or otherwise, when she died so whoever arranged for her gravestone went by what she may have said or written down -- imagine that, an actress fibbing about her age!! To the unregistered IP editor who keeps making the change, be advised that 1899 (January 3 or December 31) will not stand. If I have to seek page protection for this article I will do so. What's more your incompetent editing messed up the parameters of the infobox which you just left in that condition. Quis separabit? 21:49, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Clash of Futures
I don't know if it's notable og accurate, but in Clash of Futures, Negri is portrayed as bankrupt in LA around 1934 and accepting work in Germany to maintain her lifestyle. TGCP (talk) 12:00, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Birth discrepancy
Our note says:
 * Some sources cite 31 December 1896 as Negri's date of birth but the four-day discrepancy is due to the change in styling from the Julian calendar (OS) of Imperial Russia to the Gregorian calendar (NS) in Poland, per biographer Mariusz Kotowski, who uses the 3 January 1897 date in his biography of her life.[7] Negri herself used both dates on different documents, including United States immigration and naturalization paperwork, but liked to use the 31 December date and to state that she was born on the last day of the 19th century, which is why some documents, including Social Security, cite 31 December 1899, as does her crypt, indicating that Negri had made herself three years younger.

The highlighted part makes no sense to me. It's very common for dates in Imperial Russia to be confused given that they did not convert to the Gregorian calendar until 1918, centuries after most of the rest of the world. However, when they did convert, it was by a factor of 13 days for 20th-century events, 12 days for 19th-century events, and 11 days for 18th-century events. There was never any "four-day discrepancy". This needs a better explanation. --  Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  05:16, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

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 * Pola Negri and Hayley Millls jpeg.jpg