MARILYN, POLA, ERNEST - 6-persons

Ernest Miller Hemingway

American writer and journalist. He is the author of such novels as "The Old Man and the Sea"; "The Sun Also Rises"; "Farewell to Arms" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Presented as a classic representative of American literature. Hemingway's writing style became known as IcebergTheory.

In 1952, while on safari twice survived accidents airline. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the short story The Old Man and the Sea in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for literature a year later.

Hemingway committed suicide at his home in Ketchum in 1961.

Marilyn Monroe

The American model and movie actress. Admittedly, she was the most successful in the fifties and sixties of twentieth century, but she entered to the circle of our big names because of her date of birth. She played the roles in movies such as: ‘Gentlemen prefer Blondes’, ‘Some like it hot’ or ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’. In 1949, she posed naked for her photographs, which in 1953 (bought by Hugh Hefner) were published in the first issue of Playboy. In 1962, in New York in the Madison Square Garden, Marilyn sang ‘Happy Birthday’ especially for the President Kennedy adding the lyrics ‘Mr. President’. There were 15 thousands of guests in the hall. 

Pola Negri

Polish theater and film actress, international silent movie star. Her mother quickly discovered her daughter's acting talents. The girl was sent to a lesson in acting and dancing. After graduating from the first two theater courses of the Application School in Warsaw, Pola, with the help of the vice-president Kazimierz Hulewicz, on 1 September 1912 made her debut in the role of Klara in "Maidens' Weddings" at the Little Theater in Warsaw. This debut later enabled her to perform in government theaters: Wielki (Sumurum, Niema z Portici), and Summer, where she quickly gained great popularity.In 1917 she went to Berlin, where she performed with Max Reinbardt. The contact with the director Ernst Lubitsch turned out to be a breakthrough for Pola Negri's career. The film "Ma mummy eyes" was the highlight of the actress's career. The next successes were also due to the films of Lubitsch, "Carmen", "Madame Du Barry" and "Sumurun".In 1923 she came to Hollywood and appeared in the films: Spanish dancer, Forbidden Paradise, Hotel Imperial, Love of the actress and many others. She was the rival of another dark-haired diva, Gloria Swanson.In the USA, she became a star of silent movies and a sex symbol, which was also helped by her famous romances with Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph.She did not succeed in sound movies because of the strong accent and low voice felt as too rough for a big star.