Lucia Mendez

On April of 2004, Mendez relocated for six months to Puerto Rico, for filming of a Hollywood movie. Pola Negri has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard. On Saturday, February 29 of 2004, she married for the second time, this time to a person unknown to the public. She died in San Antonio, Texas from a brain tumour and was interred in Calvary Cemetery. Mendez is rumored to be planning a comeback into Latin American and Spanish United States television channels. She maintained her flamboyant persona to the end of her life and was often compared to the Gloria Swanson character Norma Desmond, from the film Sunset Boulevard. Lucia debutted as a writer of a soap opera in Miami in 1998. Negri lived her remaining years in relative obscurity.

The public and gossip magazines have also speculated of a supposed rivalry between her and Veronica Castro. In the same year she received an honorary award from the German film industry, for her career work. But even as she did lead a more private life, she was still under the public's eye, and she has been associated romantically with Luis Miguel and Vicente Fox, among others. Her final film appearance was in the 1964 Disney film The Moon-spinners. After Amor de Nadie, Mendez semi-retired from acting, leading a more private life. She made only a few films after this, and worked mainly in Europe. The soap opera's title song also became a smash hit for Mendez. Her style of vamp was beginning to go out of vogue, and the advent of talking pictures revealed a accented voice that the public did not warm to.

In Amor de Nadie, she played a rape victim who has five men fighting for her love. Negri's career began to decline. In 1990, Mendez came back with another super-hit soap opera, Amor de Nadie, alongside Saul Lisazo and Fernando Allende. They dismissed her actions as a publicity stunt. Later on, she and Pedro Torres divorced. Despite the wide publicity she attracted, many of Valentino's friends stated that Valentino and Negri had not intended to marry. In 1988, she married producer Pedro Torres, and in 1989, she had her son Pedrito, who is her only child so far. At his funeral she fainted several times, and had arranged for a large floral arrangement which spelled her name to be placed on Valentino's coffin.

In Tu o Nadie, her brother played a pshysically challenged person. Negri caused a media sensation after the death in 1926 of Valentino by announcing that they had planned to marry, and following the train that carried his body from New York to Los Angeles, posing for photographers at every stop. In 1986, she starred alongside Andres Garcia and Salvador Pineda in international super-hit Tu o Nadie, where she sang the Corazon de Piedra (Heart of Stone) song, which also became a smashing hit, on the Mexican and Latin American music charts. Negri's exotic style of glamour proved popular with audiences during the 1920s, and her association with such actors as Charles Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino ensured she remained in the public eye. In 1983, she was crowned as Queen of Vina Del Mar at the prestigious Viņa Del Mar Festival in Chile. Their films were successful throughout the world, and in 1922 both were offered contracts with Hollywood studios. During the 1980s, her star kept on growing, as she reached international superstar status. Her popularity provided her with an opportunity to move to Berlin where she appeared in several films for director Ernst Lubitsch.

Subsequently, she was cast on many other soap oeras, and by the mid 1970s, she was a well known superstar throughout Mexico. She turned to acting, and by the end of World War I had established herself as a popular stage actress in Warsaw and had appeared in several films. She acted in her first soap opera, Paloma, simultaneusly. Born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec in the village of Janowa, Poland, Negri trained as a dancer and performed ballet until forced by illness to change her profession. Mendez began her career in 1972, acting in a movie named Cabalgando a la Luna (Horse-riding to the Moon). Pola Negri (December 31, 1894 - August 1, 1987) was a film actress who achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films. She has been the star of several Spanish soap operas.

Lucia Leticia Mendez (born January 26, 1955) is a Mexican actress and singer.