Pola Negri Ranked
A ranking of Pola Negri's film performances.
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- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsPola NegriVictor JansonPaul HeidemannA 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.
- DirectorErnst LubitschRaoul WalshStarsMary PickfordHolbrook BlinnIrene RichRosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsPola NegriAdolphe MenjouRod La RocqueAlexei saves the Czarina from conspirators and is rewarded with her love. He deserts his sweetheart Anna, but discovers that his Queen is unfaithful too. Enraged, Alexei becomes a leader in the ongoing revolution against the royals.
- DirectorFritz KirchhoffStarsPola NegriAlbrecht SchoenhalsWaldemar LeitgebA famed composer has to prove his innocence, when his wife who has mysteriously disappeared is shot one day on the street.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsPola NegriHarry LiedtkeSophie PagayThe tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeMauritz StillerStarsPola NegriClive BrookClaude GillingwaterDuring WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsPola NegriJames HallGeorge SiegmannDuring World War I, a hotel maid and Austrian officer in hiding attempt to survive in a Russian-occupied town.
- DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsPola NegriWarwick WardHans RehmannA lighthouse keeper's wife shelters her fugitive lover.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinHarry Joe BrownHorace JacksonStarsPola NegriRoland YoungBasil RathboneCaptain Alex Pastitsch falls into huge debts trying to ensure the expensive mistress. When the situation threatened his career, Colonel Stradimirovitsch has an idea how to fix it.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsPola NegriHarry LiedtkeEmil JanningsA girl is kidnapped and held captive in an ancient Egyptian temple. She is rescued and flees to England, but soon finds that her mysterious captor is still haunting her.
- DirectorPaul WegenerStarsPola NegriWolfgang KepplerGustav DiesslSpanning the years between the Bolshevik Revolution and 1930, this Negri vehicle focuses on an exiled Russian noblewoman who has lost track of her daughter and of a young officer she pined for.Until she finds them both again and together.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsPola NegriEmil JanningsHarry LiedtkeThe story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsPola NegriConway TearleConrad NagelBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsPola NegriCharles Emmett MackHolmes HerbertA sensual European countess arrives at a small American town and quickly provokes moral outrage from the community. During her stay with a cousin, the temptress courts scandal smoking, enticing men, extravagant clothes and a tattoo.
- DirectorWilli ForstStarsPola NegriAlbrecht SchoenhalsIngeborg TheekA female cabaret singer is put on trial for murdering a predatory musician.
- DirectorGerhard LamprechtStarsPola NegriAribert WäscherFerdinand MarianMadame Bovary is a 1937 German historical drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Pola Negri, Aribert Wäscher and Ferdinand Marian. It is an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel Madame Bovary.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsPola NegriWarner BaxterPaul Lukas
- DirectorNunzio MalasommaStarsPola NegriHermann BraunHerbert HübnerVehicle for Pola Negri as a self sacrificing married woman.
- DirectorEugen IllésStarsPola NegriArthur SchröderErnst WendtA beautiful cigarette factory worker becomes the face of the company's new marketing campaign. Soon she attracts the attention of two men - a talented young composer and an old rich patron of arts.
- DirectorGeorge FitzmauriceStarsPola NegriJack HoltCharles de RochefortAfter losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexual favors in return.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsPola NegriEinar HansonArnold KentA story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long flashbacks of her testimony and life.
- DirectorAndrew L. StoneFriz FrelengStarsAdolphe MenjouMartha ScottPola NegriWhen the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsErnst LubitschPola NegriPaul WegenerThe favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
- DirectorMalcolm St. ClairStarsPola NegriTom MooreFord SterlingGermaine Morris, considered an ugly duckling, is in love with her employer, Gerald Gray, an interior decorator who caters to the smart set, and is concerned over his affair with Claire Fenton, the wife of a wealthy broker. When Claire invites Gerald on a yachting trip to Florida, his friend Bunny West invites showgirl Chouchou Rouselle to pose as Gerald's fiancée, but Germaine determines to substitute her own womanly beauty. In Florida she wins the attentions of all the men, causing a quarrel between Claire and Gerald; and Fenton hopes to obtain a correspondent as grounds for divorce. When Germaine, in her negligee, delivers a pipe to Gerald's room, he proposes; Fenton suggests that he take Germaine, leaving Claire and Gerald to go their way; but Smith, the showgirl's admirer, tries to claim her and is beaten by Gerald, who effects a reconciliation between the Fentons and claims the girl he loves.
- DirectorDimitri BuchowetzkiStarsPola NegriBen LyonNoah BeeryAn innocent young librarian, Lily, catches the eye of several officers in a German garrison, and although one of the, Lieutenant Prell, is particularly attracted to her, she marries Colonel Mertzbach, the aristocratic regimental commander. When Lieutenant Prell persists in his pursuit of Lily, tragedy pursues the trio.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsPola NegriWallace MacDonaldRobert FrazerMariposa, a wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The Charmer," Mariposa becomes the toast of two continents. Among her most ardent admirers are millionaire playboy Ralph Bayne and his chauffeur Dan Murray, who both first met her in Spain. Madly in love with Bayne, Mrs. Sedgwick invites Mariposa and her mother to a weekend party in a deliberate attempt to humiliate the beautiful dancer. Bayne quickly realizes that Mariposa is out of place in high society, and, determining to make her his mistress, takes her home with him. Mrs. Sedgwick unexpectedly arrives at Bayne's swank suite (followed by her suspicious husband), and Mariposa protects the society woman's reputation at the cost of her own. Murray arrives and attempts at gunpoint to force Bayne to marry Mariposa, but Mariposa objects and declares her intention of marrying Murray instead.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsPola NegriJean HersholtKenneth ThomsonThe Secret Hour is a lost 1928 silent film romance drama directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Pola Negri. It is based on the 1924 Broadway play, They Knew What They Wanted by Sidney Howard. It was produced by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation and distributed through Paramount Pictures.
- DirectorEugen IllésVictor JansonPaul L. SteinStarsPola NegriHarry LiedtkeVictor JansonA story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsPola NegriEdmund LoweRockliffe FellowesAfter being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that she has become a social outcast, owing to the public revelation that the oriental nurse who raised her was actually her mother. Daisy is in love with George Tevis, the nephew of the British consul, but she is disappointed by George when he is persuaded by his uncle to renounce her in favor of a diplomatic career. Lee Tai, a sinister mandarin, kidnaps Daisy with the aid of drugs and hypnotism; she is rescued by Harry Anderson, a rotter whom she soon marries out of desperation. When Anderson discovers that Daisy is an ostracized half caste, he bitterly regrets their marriage. Not knowing of the marriage, George searches her out, only to find her a married woman. Anderson forbids George to see Daisy again, but George defies the ban and meets her at her house to say good-by. Before he can shoot George, Anderson drinks wine poisoned by Lee Tai--and dies. Tevis takes Daisy back to England, and Lee Tai is executed according to Chinese law.
- DirectorDimitri BuchowetzkiStarsPola NegriNoah BeeryRobert AmesOlga Kriga, a boardinghouse girl who dreams of becoming a great actress, is turned down by a theater manager because of the jealousy of the leading lady. She then accompanies her admirer, John Knight, a young flivver salesman, when he accepts an agency offered in a small Balkan country. Karl, an alien, avows that Olga is his beloved "Queen" and begs her to return with him to Sylvania; at the hotel, Count Mirko and his ministers greet her. Count Mirko perceives the resemblance and quickly formulates a scheme to gain wealth and power in the country with Olga posing as the lost queen returning to free the people from tyranny. Accompanied by John, Olga arrives in Sylvania, where the uneasy tyrant, Vorski, agrees to pay for her removal; but after revolt she ascends the throne. Happiness restored, Olga returns to New York with John.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsPola NegriNils AstherMary McAllisterLoves of an Actress is a lost 1928 silent film romance directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Pola Negri. It was produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky with the distribution through Paramount Pictures. The film had a soundtrack of either Vitaphone or Movietone of music and sound effects.
- DirectorJames NeilsonStarsHayley MillsEli WallachPola NegriA teenager encounters romance, intrigue and a search for stolen jewels during her visit to the island of Crete.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsPola NegriAntonio MorenoWallace BeeryA love story between Don Cesar de Bazan and a beautiful Gypsy dancer.
- DirectorPaul BernStarsPola NegriJoseph J. DowlingYoucca TroubetzkovCalifornia of 1856, Don Geraldo y Villalon, descendant of Spanish grandees, has had the Flor de Noche gold mine wrested from him by dishonest Americans. Carlota, his daughter, falls in love with John Basset, the new assistant superintendent at the mine, and goes to a dance, against her father's wishes, to be near him. Mine superintendent Derck Bylandt, who has had too much to drink, dies of a heart attack when he tries to force Carlota to dance with him. Disgusted with the scene, Basset ignores her. She confesses to her father that she has disgraced the Villalon name, and he commits suicide. She then goes to San Francisco and becomes a dance hall girl. Stung by Basset's contempt, she accepts the offer of infatuated Luke Rand, the sinister head of the Vigilance Committee, to help her recover the mine. She recants when she realizes that Basset's life is in danger. In the end, Basset kills Rand; and he and Carlota realize their mutual love.
- DirectorLudwig BergerStarsPola NegriNorman KerryLawrence GrantA princess falls in love with the man who killed her cousin. The lover swears it was in self-defense.
- DirectorRyszard OrdynskiJan PawlowskiStarsPola NegriWojciech BrydzinskiWladyslaw SzczewinskiPola is a beautiful but poor girl, a locksmith's daughter. Unexpectedly, she's successful as a stage dancer. After her success, she breaks with her fiancé and becomes the lover of a rich admirer. However, the fiancé does not accept her departure.
- DirectorNunzio MalasommaStarsPola NegriHans Zesch-BallotSabine PetersPola Negri 's last film in Germany, a melodramatic vehicle for her as another self sacrificing married woman.
- DirectorKurt MatullStarsTilli BébéHarry HopkinsPola Negri
- DirectorDimitri BuchowetzkiStarsPola NegriRobert FrazerRobert EdesonCleo, a waitress in a Marseilles waterfront cafe, is lured to Paris by a baron who betrays her. Disillusioned, she resolves to use men as stepping stones to a life of luxury. After becoming a stage favorite on the boulevards and satiated with an easy life, she meets Georges, a poor youth whose honest love restores her faith in men.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsPola NegriAlexander AntalffyPaul BiensfeldtVioletta Duclos is a poor Parisian girl. After being struck by an automobile, she falls deeply in love with a young playwright, Alfred Germont. Called away by a family emergency, Alfred leaves Violetta, who, falling into more dire circumstances, is taken under the wing of the Graf (Count) von Geray. Von Geray promises her wealth and comfort. She initially rejects her rich suitor, but then, surprisingly, runs off with him. Alfred pursues her, only to learn that she has abandoned him not for lack of love, but due to serious illness.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsPola NegriCharles de RochefortHuntley GordonAt the end of the war, Claire, queen of the Paris underground, finds herself in Paris high society. Believing that her apache lover, Fernand, has been killed in the war, Claire falls in love with Raoul, a French official. De Croy, Raoul's secretary, learns of Claire's past and threatens to expose her unless she yields to him. Fernand returns; Claire realizes that she no longer loves him; and while attempting to steal a diamond necklace, he is killed in a fight with De Croy, who has come to Claire's boudoir to collect his debt. Raoul returns during the fracas, and De Croy keeps Claire's secret by declaring that he has killed a common thief stealing madame's jewels. Claire, however, confesses the truth and is about to leave when Raoul forgives her.
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsPola NegriHarry LiedtkeReinhold SchünzelA woman of the Latin Quarter, who has had numerous love affairs, flees from the wild life of Paris to bury her past in self-exile in South America.
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsGeorg BaseltPoldi DeutschVictor Janson
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsPola NegriEmil JanningsHarry LiedtkeIn Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to her. She swears vengeance and tracks the killer to Monte Carlo. There she falls in love with a handsome young officer, only to discover that he is the murderer she has sworn to punish.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsErnst HofmannHans KuhnertFrieda Lemke
- DirectorGeorg JacobyStarsPola NegriHarry LiedtkeAlbert Patry