Vintage original 3.25 x 5.25 in. German "Ross" postcard featuring the popular Polish-born silent film diva POLA NEGRI. The exotic brunette is depicted wearing her trademark short hair as she looks with indifference at the viewer. Printed in Germany in the 1920's, it is unused in very fine+ condition. Pola Negri (/po?l? ?n??ri?/; born Barbara Apolonia Cha?upec; 3 January 1897 – 1 August 1987) was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles. Raised in the Congress Kingdom of Poland, Negri studied ballet and acting in Warsaw, becoming a well-known stage actress there. In 1917 she relocated to Germany, where she began appearing in silent films for the Berlin-based UFA studio. Her film performances for UFA came to the attention of Hollywood executives at Paramount Pictures, who offered her a film contract. Negri signed with Paramount in 1922, making her the first European actor in history to be contracted in Hollywood. She spent much of the 1920’s working in the United States, appearing in numerous films for Paramount, establishing herself as one of the most popular actresses in American silent film. In the 1930’s during the emergence of the sound film, Negri returned to Europe, where she appeared in multiple films for Pathé Films and UFA, and also began a career as a recording artist. She would make only two films after 1940, with her last screen credit in Walt Disney's The Moon-Spinners (1964). She spent her later life largely outside the public sphere. She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1951, and spent the remainder of her life living in San Antonio, Texas, where she died of pneumonia in 1987, aged 90.