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Article: Silent star Pola Negri, 87; Valentino her `great love'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 3, 1987
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SAN ANTONIO (UPI) Pola Negri, 87, the exotic silent screen star
who outlived her industry but not her "great love" for Rudolph
Valentino, died in the city for which she had forsaken Hollywood.
Renowned for her portrayal of the legendary vamp - the
dark-haired, smoky-eyed beauty enticing men to their ruin in film
after film - she died in her sleep of pneumonia Saturday at Northeast
Baptist Hospital in San Antonio.
A respected star in Europe, the Polish actress was lured to this
country to join the ranks of Gloria Swanson, Cecil B. DeMille,
Charlie Chaplin and her beloved Valentino in the glamorous era of
Hollywood in the 1920s.
Miss Negri lived her last years as a near recluse, ...