ACTOR

Pola Negri

1897 - 1987

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Pola Negri (; born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec [apɔˈlɔɲa xaˈwupʲɛt͡s]; 3 January 1897 – 1 August 1987) was a Polish stage and film actress and singer. She achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles. She was also acknowledged as a sex symbol.Raised in the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Negri's childhood was marked by several personal hardships: After her father was sent to Siberia, she was raised by her single mother in poverty, and suffered tuberculosis as a teenager. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pola Negri has received more than 1,087,619 page views. Her biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Pola Negri is the 283rd most popular actor (down from 217th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Poland (down from 77th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Actor.

Pola Negri was a Polish actress and singer who was most famous for her roles in the silent films of the 1910s and 1920s.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Pola Negris by language

Over the past year Pola Negri has had the most page views in the with 125,097 views, followed by Polish (82,932), and German (36,737). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (3,226.09%), Uzbek (177.44%), and Chinese (97.15%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Pola Negri ranks 283 out of 13,578. Before her are Demi Moore, Liza Minnelli, Vittorio Gassman, Kurt Russell, William Holden, and Christopher Reeve. After her are Nathalie Delon, Michael Keaton, Farrah Fawcett, Rudolph Valentino, Sophie Marceau, and Sonny Chiba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Pola Negri ranks 23. Before her are Ferenc Szálasi, Soong Mei-ling, Gordon Allport, Tadeusz Reichstein, Frank Capra, and Kurt Schuschnigg. After her are Thích Quảng Đức, Odd Hassel, Yun Posun, Enid Blyton, Paul Delvaux, and Kurt Daluege. Among people deceased in 1987, Pola Negri ranks 17. Before her are Fred Astaire, Thomas Sankara, Walter Houser Brattain, Andrey Kolmogorov, Maria von Trapp, and William P. Murphy. After her are Lawrence Kohlberg, James Baldwin, Fahri Korutürk, Jascha Heifetz, Lino Ventura, and Lee Byung-chul.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Pola Negri ranks 102 out of 1,694. Before her are Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858), Stefan Banach (1892), Tadeusz Reichstein (1897), Dziga Vertov (1896), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), and Ulrich Beck (1944). After her are Jan Matejko (1838), Mieszko I of Poland (940), Maria Feodorovna (1759), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Hanna Reitsch (1912), and Zdzisław Beksiński (1929).

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Among ACTORS In Poland

Among actors born in Poland, Pola Negri ranks 2. Before her are Klaus Kinski (1926). After her are Hanna Schygulla (1943), Lilli Palmer (1914), Daniel Olbrychski (1945), Tommy Wiseau (1955), Barbara Brylska (1941), Anny Ondra (1903), Dita Parlo (1906), Aleksander Krupa (1947), Paul Wegener (1874), and Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Wildcat
Rischka
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
Apr 14o 19217.6 / 10
Madame DuBarry
Jeanne Vaubernier - later Madame du Barry
The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Sep 18o 19196.2 / 10
The Eyes of the Mummy
Ma
Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.
Oct 3o 19185.3 / 10