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The legendary silent film star Pola Negri makes her triumphant return to screen in "Life is a Dream in Cinema", a feature-length documentary examining the life and work of the celebrated actress.

"Life is a Dream in Cinema: Pola Negri" brings the story of this great actress back to life with clips of her films, photographs of the star from throughout her life, recollections of the people who knew her, and interviews with people who have made a study of her life and times.

Pola Negri's place in cinema history cannot be underestimated, as she was the beginning of many firsts in the movies. This list of accomplishments includes popularizing European films in the United States, opening the way for international film artists in Hollywood, popularizing fashions that are with us to this day, and broadening the expression of sex on the screen. She is also remembered for her off-screen love affairs with Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino and, in fact, was Valentino’s lover at the time of this premature death in 1926.

Actors Hayley Mills and Eli Wallach, both well-known film stars in their own right, performed with Pola in The Moon-spinners (1964), her final film, and appear in the documentary.

Many other experts in their fields shared a wealth of knowledge and insights about Pola, including: Professor Jeanine Basinger, author of Silent Stars; A.C. Lyles, producer for Paramount Pictures; Alfred Allan Lewis, ghostwriter of Memoirs of a Star, Pola's autobiography; Emily Leider, author of Rudolph Valentino biography Dark Lover; Anthony Slide, film historian; David Gasten, webmaster of The Pola Negri Appreciation Site; and Scott Eyman, author of Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise.

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