In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love.

She made her theatrical debut before her graduation at The Small Theatre in Warsaw on 2 October 1912. After this actor-director Willi Forst brought Negri to Germany appear in the film Mazurka (1935). In 1918 Lubitsch convinced UFA to let him create a large-scale film with Negri as the main character.

Her varied career included work as an actress in theater and vaudeville; as a singer and recording artist; as an author; and as a ballerina. She was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood and become one of the most popular actresses in American silent film.