"Tango Notturno" - Pola Negri (1937)

Pola Negri (vocal) with the Odeon-Künstler-Orchester, conducted by Hans-Otto Borgmann. Recorded in Berlin on December 15th 1937.
The song was written by Hans-Otto Borgmann (music) and Hans Fritz Beckmann (lyrics) for the German UFA Picture "Tango Notturno", which premiered in the Berlin Tauentzienpalast on December 23rd 1937. Pola Negri and Albrecht Schoenhals starred in this love melodrama - here's a link to the film scene with Pola singing the song:    • Pola Negri, 1937, Tango Notturno  

"Pola Negri (1897 - 1987), born Apolonia Chalupec, was a Polish stage and film actress and singer who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles and was acknowledged as a sex symbol."
(Wikipedia)
Pola Negri was a well known stage actress in her home country Poland, when she moved to Germany in 1917 and got there the chance to play in a lot of silent movies for the UFA Film Company in Berlin. Her immense success led to a contract with the US Film Company Paramount Pictures in 1922. She moved to Hollywood and became here one of the biggest female stars of silent movies in the Twenties. Her affair with Rudolph Valentino shortly before his sudden death in 1926 was widely excavated by the press then.
With the emergence of sound films (and because of her strong accent) she returned to Europe and made some very successful movies for the German UFA again, in which she often sang songs with her very beautiful dark voice. This made her a popular recording artist. At the end of the Thirties and because of her discontent with Hitlers "Third Reich" she returned to the USA, where she stayed for the rest of her life.

This ODEON record is played on an Electrola Portable, model 106 in red from ca. 1939!