German film actress
Violetta Napierska (sometimes Violette Napierska) was a film actress. Most of her acting career she worked in German silent films, often with Bla Lugosi, Lee Parry and director Richard Eichberg.
Napierska was Lugosis mistress at the time.
After 1955 Violetta Napierska retired and was soon forgotten. When or where she passed away is not known.
After that Violetta Napierska retired from the film business,only in 1936 she had a brief comeback with her only talky "Coeur de gueux" .
In 1955 she appeared in Italy in her final film La Vena dOro/The gold Vein (1955, Mauro Bolognini) about an oedipal relationship between a mother (Mrta Torn) and her only son. As the son appeared the then 16-year-old Mario Girotti, who would become Spaghetti Western hero Terence Hill in 1967.
The band Darling Violetta took their name from the salutation allegedly used by Bla Lugosi in his letters to Violetta Napierska.
The actress Violetta Napierska began her silent movie career in 1919.
Her last silent movie came in France into being with "Le ptit Parigot" (1926).
Lugosi and Napierska worked together again on the film Hypnose/Hypnosis (Richard Eichberg, 1920) and the two-parter Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan/Dance on the Volcano (Richard Eichberg, 1920), both co-starring again Lee Parry. The U.S. version of the latter film was known as Daughter of the Night. For a long time, it was considered a lost film until an archive print was discovered in its American release version in the 1990s.
Lugosi even wrote her a poem: "One (poem) I wrote while living in Germany, working in the Budapest Theatre. I had fallen in love with a very young girl by the name of Violetta Napierska. Regretfully, nothing ever developed from our acquaintance." My Darling Violetta, Slumber envelops your beautiful face And a dream grips your soul in embrace; I will guard you. You are my dream every night, every day, And regardless of where you might stay, I will seek you. Then, when you want to forget all the world, And fly to my arms like a bird, I will love you. Signed, Bela.
