#pola negri

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Sophia Loren (Marriage Italian Style, Houseboat)—Major Italian star, first actress to win an Oscar for a performance not in English (for Two Women (1960)) and later when Roberto Benigni won an Oscar in 1999 he jumped over the chairs towards the stage going "Sophia Sophia!!" because he was running towards Sophia Loren and said he cared more about her than the Oscar, that's the effect she had on people. She was big in the 60s already even though she gained a lot more notoriety after that. And I mean. Can we take a moment and just.

Pola Negri (The Wildcat, Men, A Woman Commands)—Legally obliged to submit her as she's from Poland, but also it is one of the greatest stars of silent film, both in Hollywood and Europe, so she has to be here. The og femme fatale and a fenomenal dramatic actress. And just so hot in this 1920s vamp style. Obviously her career slowed down in America with the introduction of sound movies, because of her accent and low voice. I'd say her voice is so much hotter thanks to that, but I'm just a simple simp. But then she made movies in Germany, and after the war she was even offered Gloria Swanson's role in "Sunset Boulevard'' but she declined. She was probably bisexual as after romances with Charlie Chaplin and Rudolf Valentino in the 20s, since the 1940s she lived with her 'female friend'.

This is round 4 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Sophia Loren:

She has maxed out all her stats: beauty, elegance, sensuality, she's got it all. her mesmerizing eyes, her sensual mouth, her sharp face shape, her everything is so striking and unlike any other beauty in films. she was also voted the world most beautiful woman when she was freaking 65

im submitting her in honor of my dad bc she was the first celebrity crush of his he ever admitted to me and my sister :) and he was right. shes so pretty

OSCAR WINNER. Worked with some of the hottest leading men in Hollywood but remained faithful to her husband whom she had a loving marriage with till he died (even though Cary Grant almost tempted her once, it's complicated)

One of the most well-known sex symbols of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and unlike some unfortunate others, she seems to have been pretty well at peace with occupying that status. She made assertiveness and a tempestuous temper seem glamorous, and although she's famous for side-eying Jayne Manisfield's cleavage, honestly? She's one to talk.

Absolutely, drop-dead sexy, also a hard working, extraordinarily talented actress who didn't shy away from the less glamorous roles to gift us some gritty, memorable performances

Submitting this on behalf of my dad, who knows nothing of tumblr or this blog, but I remember being a kid watching Houseboat while my mom thirsted after Cary Grant, dad thirsted after Sophia Loren, and I was excited that they lived on a boat. Anyway, she's extremely beautiful and was an international star, doing a ton of movies in Italy before being recognized in the US.

JUST LOOK AT HER Y'ALL

Very smart and beautiful, the characters that she played (I mean those in the movies that I put in the previous question) are as strong and determined as her which I think adds to her hotness.

Global superstar and my late grandfather's long time movie star crush and for a man as quiet as he was, and as hopelessly devoted to his wife as he was, the fact that I know that means she was EXCEPTIONAL.

Big in the chest, snatched in the waist, pretty in the face 😳

Sexy, beautiful, deep. A real star.

Her performance in "Man of La Mancha" is just so very captivating. Dubbed as "the Italian Marilyn Monroe", she looks beautiful in any movie and at any age.

Forget the exotic sexpot of her Hollywood films and go back to her Italian career: sparking with Marcello Mastroianni as the woman who drives him mad and outwits all his fumbling attempts at macho posturing in their early films, and showing a tender side in their 1970s films. Sophia isn’t self-conscious about who she is or her beautiful body: she enjoys being herself and she wants us all to enjoy ourselves too.

She starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time. She is a great cook and her filmography is immense.

On the misattributed quote that Sophia owed everything to spaghetti: 'Did you actually say the quote frequently attributed to you, "Everything you see I owe to spaghetti"?' "Non è vero! It's not true! It's such a silly thing. I owe it to spaghetti, no, no. Completely made up."

Pola Negri:

A tempestuous green-eyed vamp of the silent screen, she tantalized with both her onscreen and offscreen romances. Rocked a Polish accent - well, once there was sound! A true proficient at promoting herself and using all possible tools to do so - from a dead Rudolf Valentino to a cheetah named Teddy, the latter of which she brought to a press conference.

First European actress to be contracted by Hollywood! She survived poverty and illness to become The Queen of Tragedy, she divorced a count to date stars like Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino, then spent the rest of her life living with Margaret West in what could have been a romantic relationship.

I don't have much to say about her actual career, personal life, etc. but I just need everyone to see how hauntingly beautiful her face is. I haven't been able to stop thinking about her since the first time I saw her LOL like its pretty clear why she was such a star

#pola negri #sophia loren #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 4

[mote-historie]

Pola Negri, The terrasse of the Café de la Paix in Paris, Hand-colored Photographs by Burton Holmes, 1927.

“I must urgently recommend that you spend your first leisure hour in Paris at the corner table of the terrasse of the Café de la Paix. It is a fact known and proved that … you have only to sit at this corner long enough, and a friend will appear in time.” - Burton Holmes, Travelogues.

Pola Negri born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec[a] (Polish, 1897-1987) was a 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.

#pola negri #1927 #burton holmes #paris #cafe de la paix #illustration #vintage #1920s #art #fashion #20s #travelogues #travelogue #1920s paris #20s paris #Pola Negri #café de la paix #negri #jazz age #barbara apolonia chałupiec #twenties #apolonia chalupec #silent film actress #silent film stars #polish #polish actress #silent film actresses #femme fatale #femme fatale role #paris 1927

[davidhudson]

Pola Negri, January 3, 1897 – August 1, 1987.

Photo by Brigitte von Klitzing.

#pola negri #brigitte von klitzing #cinema #film #movies

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Ernst Lubitschs Sumurun. Filmplakat von Mihály Bíró. Gesellschaft für graphische Industrie, Wien | src Swann galleries

Ernst Lubitsch's classic 1920 film, starring Pola Negri depicted here in a trance-like dance with a typographic serpent

#Sumurun #Plakat #ernst lubitsch #Filmplakat #film poster #movie poster #Pola Negri #Mihaly Biro #illustration #1920s #oriental costume #oriental dance #serpent #snake #Schlange

[eyesaremosaics]

Pola Negri, the wildcat 1921

#pola negri #1920s #1920s fashion #silent cinema

[secretceremonies]

Who’s who?

“We published a story a few months ago in which we showed that motion picture personalities are not always what they seem on the screen. What about them in their hometown then? What are their personal claims to distinction? We took a vote amongst our staff writers after the manner of collegiate papers with these interesting results.”

Highlights

Gloria Swanson - Most compelling personality

Pola Negri- Most brilliant woman

Greta Garbo - Girl with most brilliant future

Joan Crawford - Best woman dancer

Marion Davies - Most popular girl

Colleen Moore - Most unassuming girl

#1925 #charlie chaplin #*vomits* (sorry..) #anyway #joan crawford #greta garbo #pola negri #gloria swanson #marion davies #silent cinema #silent era #silent film #silent movies #1920s #1920s fashion #1920s cinema #vintage #vintage magazine #mary pickford #colleen moore

[citizenscreen]

Pola Negri recording Russian Gypsy songs for HMV in March 1931

#pola negri #old hollywood

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

Forbidden Paradise / Pola Negri as Catherine (the Czarina)

As befits royalty, Catherine wears a succession of sumptuous gowns in this film. The top photo shows her in a sleek gown with extravagant sleeves, a furry muff, and a crown-and-veil combo that made me think it was a wedding dress at first.

The ermine-trimmed gown in the middle photo is probably the most lavish of the lot. The skirt looks like it's covered in tiny pearl necklaces! The cut is a robe de style, with visible panniers supporting the skirt.

Finally, the bottom photo shows Her Majesty in a rather gothy gown with a full skirt. Looks like it might be made of velvet.

This is one of Ernst Lubitsch's early silent films--you can see him with Pola Negri in the bottom photo. The middle picture shows Negri with Adolphe Menjou as the Chancellor. This movie is available on YouTube, but unfortunately, the subtitles are only in Czech.

#forbidden paradise #coeli's picks #pola negri #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #1924 movies #1924 films #silent era #silent movies #silent films #black and white movies #ernst lubitsch #1920s fashion #1920 style #20s fashion #20s style #robe de style #Youtube

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Sharmila Tagore (Apur Sansar, Kashmir ki Kali, An Evening in Paris)—She was adorable, an actual princess (through marriage), the first woman to wear a bikini in a Hindi film, and had, I would argue, the most iconic beehive hair in film history.

Pola Negri (The Wildcat, Men, A Woman Commands)—Legally obliged to submit her as she's from Poland, but also it is one of the greatest stars of silent film, both in Hollywood and Europe, so she has to be here. The og femme fatale and a fenomenal dramatic actress. And just so hot in this 1920s vamp style. Obviously her career slowed down in America with the introduction of sound movies, because of her accent and low voice. I'd say her voice is so much hotter thanks to that, but I'm just a simple simp. But then she made movies in Germany, and after the war she was even offered Gloria Swanson's role in "Sunset Boulevard'' but she declined. She was probably bisexual as after romances with Charlie Chaplin and Rudolf Valentino in the 20s, since the 1940s she lived with her 'female friend'.

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Sharmila Tagore propaganda:

"One of the most well-known Bollywood actresses of all time!"

Pola Negri:

A tempestuous green-eyed vamp of the silent screen, she tantalized with both her onscreen and offscreen romances. Rocked a Polish accent - well, once there was sound! A true proficient at promoting herself and using all possible tools to do so - from a dead Rudolf Valentino to a cheetah named Teddy, the latter of which she brought to a press conference.

First European actress to be contracted by Hollywood! She survived poverty and illness to become The Queen of Tragedy, she divorced a count to date stars like Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino, then spent the rest of her life living with Margaret West in what could have been a romantic relationship.

I don't have much to say about her actual career, personal life, etc. but I just need everyone to see how hauntingly beautiful her face is. I haven't been able to stop thinking about her since the first time I saw her LOL like its pretty clear why she was such a star

#pola negri #sharmila tagore #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 3

[thatbitchsimone]

#pola negri

[silentdivasblog]

Pola Negri ❤️

#silent film #silent era #silent actress #pola negri #polish actress #silent cinema #1920s cinema #silent film actresses #vintage beauty

[decodarling]

Pola Negri — The Cheat (1923)

#1920s #vintage #vintage fashion #1920s fashion #art deco #flapper #pola negri

[random-brushstrokes]

Federico Beltran Masses - Pola Negri y Rudolph Valentino (ca. 1926-27)

On 23 August 1926, news broke that Hollywood heart-throb Rudolph Valentino had died, due to complications from peritonitis. He was 31 years old. Tens of thousands of fans took to the streets of New York, and riots broke out at the funeral home where his body lay, the frenzied masses clawing and trampling each other as they fought for a glimpse of the actor's mortal remains. Two fans committed suicide.

At his memorial service, Valentino's lover – vampish actress Pola Negri – arranged for her name to be spelled out in white blossoms among $2,000-worth of blood-red roses. Her dramatic display of grief – wailing audibly, weeping and fainting over his coffin – made global news. She later rode alongside Valentino's body from New York to California, on a train that stopped at dozens of major stations so his adoring public could pay tribute, sharing her anguish with journalists on demand.

After the actor's death, Negri commissioned the Spanish artist Federico Beltrán Masses to paint Pola Negri y Rudolph Valentino.

Beltrán Masses had built a successful career as a portraitist, his wide network of patrons and supporters including royalty and high society in Paris and Madrid. He was introduced to Valentino on the French Riviera during the summer of 1924 by a mutual friend, the novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.

Beltrán Masses created an ethereal double portrait, with Negri the femme fatale, gazing wistfully into the distance while her saturnine lover serenades her from a darkened corner. Negri was unhappy with the way she looked in the finished picture and refused to pay the artist. He promptly sued her for $5,000. (source)

#Federico Beltran Masses #spanish art #group portrait #pola negri #rudolph valentino #1920s

[ghostoftallulah]

Pola Negri

#pola negri #antique #black and white #silent film #1920s #flapper #victorian aesthetic #vintage #history #inspiration #personal blog

[citizenscreen]

Best man Rudolph Valentino and maid of honor Pola Negri with the happy couple, Mae Murray and Prince David Mdivani, on their wedding day in June 1926.

#rudolph valentino #pola negri #mae murray #david mdivani #old hollywood #1920s