Pola Illéry
actress
- Birth name:
- Paula Iliescu
- Born:
- 1909-12-18, Corabia, Jud. Olt, Romania
- Died:
- 1993-10-19, Palos Verdes, California, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Pola Illéry was an exotic silent film star in France and Romania during the 1920s and made a modest transition to sound films in the 1930s. She was known for portraying sexually liberated women and was considered the most glamorous film star in Romania. After she left films feeling she achieved her time in the spotlight she fled to America in 1939 with the rise of Nazism. After moving between New York and Maryland she settled in Pennsylvania and spent her life living modestly with the family she had created and raised until her death from old age.
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