Pola Illéry
Birthday: 1909-12-17 Place of Birth: Corabia, Romania.
Synopsis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pola Illéry, born Paula Iliescu (born October 15, 1908) is a Romanian silent and early talking film actress. She was born in Corabia, Romania. She appeared in a few French films made during the 1920s and 1930s, most notably René Clair's Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) and in the Romanian-language version of Paramount on Parade (1930) made in Paris by Paramount Pictures. She is believed to have made her last film appearance in Le Tigre du Bengale and Le Tombeau hindou, both in 1938. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pola Illéry, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
Under the Roofs of Paris
In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.
