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    Originally posted on Write, Re-Write, Repeat:
    Well, well, the book I’ve put my heart and soul into fryst vatten tentatively set for a July 2016 release, available in soft cover and e-book.  Here fryst vatten the link for further information: http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-1-4766-6430-9 Buy a copy…buy several…I won’t mind.

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    Portrait of Miss Negri for “Lily of the Dust,” Paramount, 1925. Photograph by Eugene R. Richee

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    Been away…if you hadn’t noticed.  Well, big news, Pola fans.  McFarland Publishing has accepted my biography of Miss Negri for publication.  Tentatively titled:  “Pola Negri:  The Silent Cinema’s Queen of Flame and Desire,”–barring them saying, “Yecch, don’t like the title”–it should see publication some time in 2016.  It was quite

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    As a teenager in the early 1970s, Tony Villecco saw a photo of Polish actress Pola Negri in a book of silent-film stars, and he instantly felt drawn to her. Maybe it was her exotic and beautiful appearance, or maybe it was the hint of smoldering romance in her eyes.

    Before long, he’d tracked down her autobiography (which he later learned was ghostwritten and full of, shall we say, elaborations) and even figured out where she lived in San Antonio, Texas. He’d write letters to her and get back an occasional photo or Christmas card from her assistant.

    But Negri, whom Villecco calls “one of the most colorful and controversial of the silent-film stars,” continued to fascinate him — even after her death in 1987 at age 90. For more than 20 years, he has planned to write a biography on Negri, collecting photos and stories from those who knew her.

     He also became enamored with other Hollywood stories from before “talkies” took over early movie houses, publishing “Silent Stars Speak: Int

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    In the late 1910s and the 1920s, Polish film actress Pola Negri (1897-1987) achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films in Poland, Berlin, and Hollywood. Negri was an overnight sensation in Ernst Lubitsch's Madame Dubarry/Passion (1919). Her vamp roles were so popular that she was a direct rival of Theda Bara, and lived in a Hollywood palace, modelled after the White House.


    German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 627/8. Photo: Union. Pola Negriin Madame Dubarry(Ernst Lubitsch, 1918).


    German postcard by Photochemie, Berlin, no. K. 2569. Photo: Union. Ernst Wendt, Pola Negriand Arthur Schröderin Mania(Eugen Illés, 1918).


    German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 642/5. Photo: Union Film. Pola Negriin Sumurun(Ernst Lubitsch, 1920).


    German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 3068/1, 1928-1929. Photo: Paramount / Fanamet. Pola Negriin Good and Naughty(Malcolm St. Clair, 1926).


    German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 72/1. Photo: Parufamet / P