Pola Illéry(1909-1993)
- Actress
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.