Pola Negri 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
Negri in 1931
Negri and Rod La Rocque in a publicity portrait for Forbidden Paradise (1924)
Negri with Warner Baxter in a publicity still for Three Sinners (1928)
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, known professionally as Rudolph Valentino or just as Valentino, was an Italian-born actor and dancer. Dubbed the Latin Lover, he
Pola Negri
…Brenon-directed The Spanish Dancer (1923), based on the Victor Hugo novel Don César de Bazan. The initial screenplay was intended as a vehicle for Rudolph Valentino before he left Paramount and was reworked for Negri. Rosita, Lubitsch's film with Mary Pickford, was released the same year and happened to be based…
Valentino as a child, published in Photoplay, January 1923
Valentino in Taranto before he departed for America, 1913
Line 12 of the manifest shows that on December 9, 1913, 18-year-old Valentino departed Genoa aboard the S.S. Cleveland.
Valentino in a portrait inscribed to socialite Aimée Crocker Gouraud, 1916