Stanisława Umińska (17 November 1901 – 25 December 1977) was a Polish theatre actress.
Born in
Warsaw
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, in early 1920s she was considered one of the rising stars of the Polish theatre, but in 1924 in
Paris
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, France, she shot dead her dying fiance, artist , upon his request as an act of
euthanasia
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. Set free by the French court, she became a nurse and a nun in Poland. She died in
Niegów, Poland on Christmas Day in 1977.
Selected filmography
* ''
Pan Twardowski'' (1921)
References
Stanisława Umińska* Małgorzata Szeroczyńska
1901 births
1977 deaths
Polish film actresses
Polish silent film actresses
20th-century Polish Roman Catholic nuns
Polish nurses
20th-century Polish actresses
Actresses from Warsaw
Actors from Warsaw Governorate
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