Pola Negri may not be a household name today, but at one time Ms. Negri was one of the darlings of the film industry coming to America in September 1922 after becoming a popular film and stage actress in Europe. She was considered a member of the foreign legion who were actors that moved abroad to be in American pictures. Her first American contract was signed to Famous Players, a Hollywood studio which later became Paramount.

Courted and solicited by directors and producers during the silent film era which emerged through the Roaring Twenties, Ms. Negri continued to be in demand through the 1930s when film first came with voice called Talkies then. She was a part of the early stages of the film industry and her autobiography, "Memoirs of a Star" chronicles her journey from the slums of Warsaw, Poland to the palatial estates of Beverly Hills to a king-size chateau in the south of France, all abodes that were once homes to Pola Negri.