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Fritz Wepper (1941-2024)
Yesterday, 25 March 2024, German television and film actor Fritz Wepper (1941-2024) died at the age of 82. In 1972, he played an important supporting role in Bob Fosse's classic musical Cabaret. He...
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Spinelly
French actress Andrée Spinelly (1887-1966) was commonly known as Spinelly. She had a rich stage career between the 1900s and the 1920s. She emerged as a major music hall star in Paris and also had...
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Catherine Deneuve
Elegant Catherine Deneuve (1943) is an icon of the French cinema. She gained recognition in the 1960s for her portrayal of cool, mysterious beauties in classic films of directors like Luis Buñuel,...
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Peau d'âne (1970)
Jacques Demy's colourful musical Peau d'âne/Donkey Skin (1970) is a combination of Jean Cocteau's classic La Belle et la Bête/Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Disney's Cinderella (1950) with music...
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La Collectionneuse: Jeanette MacDonald
Jeanette MacDonald (1903-1965) was the undisputed queen of Hollywood operettas in the 1930s. Besides being a gifted singer, she also was a skilled comedienne. At the begining of her film career, she...
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Rex Allen
American film and television actor, singer and songwriter Rex Allen (1920-1999) was known as 'the Arizona Cowboy'. As a singing cowboy in Republic Westerns, he was one of the top-ten box office draws...
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Photo by T. v. Mindszenty
Tibor von Mindszenty (1899–?) started his career as Hollywood actor Paul Vincenti. The 'Hungarian Rudolph Valentino' later became a Ufa star photographer in Berlin. German postcard by Ross Verlag,...
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Barbara Rush (1927-2024)
American actress Barbara Rush (1927-2024) died last Sunday, 31 March 2024, at 97. The beautiful brunette actress was the epitome of poise, charm, style, and grace in Hollywood films of the 1950s. In...
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William Duncan
Scottish-born film star William Duncan (1879–1961) was a major actor, writer, and director of films and serials, often Westerns. He became one of the highest-paid leading men in the early film...
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Angel Heart (1987)
The Neo Noir Angel Heart ( 1987) is a standout film in British director Alan Parkers' filmography. It's a seedy, disturbing and provocative mystery starring Mickey Rourke in one of his best...
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Géza Tordy (1938-2024)
On 30 March 2024, Hungarian actor and director Géza Tordy (1938-2024) passed away in Budapest. The distinguished artist was the winner of the Kossuth Prize winner and the Jászai Mari Prize. He was 85....
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Guest post Jean Ritsema: unnamed models on fashion cards
As the cataloger for the Image Archive on Mark Goffee’s Ross Verlag website, I regularly have cause to consult the European Film Star Postcards blog (EFSP) and the Flickr albums created by Paul van...
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Vera Tschechowa (1940-2024)
German film and television actress Vera Tschechowa (1940-2024) passed away on 3 April in Berlin. Her grandfather was the Russian Oscar-nominated actor Michael Chekhov who was the nephew of author Anton...
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Photo by Hanni Schwarz
Hanni Schwarz was a German portrait, dance and nude photographer, who was active in Berlin from 1901 onwards. She was a well-known professional photographer in the German Empire at the beginning of the...
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Audrey Totter
American actress Audrey Totter (1917-2013) often portrayed jilted lovers, bad girls, unfaithful wives, and women with a past. She played her first film role as a 'bad' girl in Main Street After Dark...
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More Förlag Nordisk Konst
Förlag Nordisk Konst published some of the most interesting postcards of the Swedish silent cinema. We love them. Nordisk Konst was a Nordic company, at least it also had a Copenhagen branch besides...
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A Knight's Tale (2001)
Heath Ledger played a man pretending to be a knight in A Knight's Tale (2001), written, co-produced and directed by Brian Helgeland. The swashbuckling comedy-drama is full of deliberate anachronisms:...
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Pierre Étaix
French clown, actor and filmmaker Pierre Étaix (1928-2016) was inspired by Max Linder and Buster Keaton and kept the tradition of slapstick alive. As an actor, assistant director and gag writer, Étaix...
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Jeff Chandler
Ruggedly handsome American actor and singer Jeff Chandler (1918-1961) was best known for his portrayal of legendary Native American Apache chief Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950), for which he was...
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Ginette Maddie
Ginette Maddie (1898-1980) was a French actress who acted in French and German silent films. Between 1922 and 1958, she appeared in 20 films with such notable directors as Alfred Machin and Julien...
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Photo by Rudolf Dührkoop & Atelier Dührkoop
Rudolf Dührkoop (1848-1918) was a Hamburg-based studio photographer, who from 1909 onward had a portrait studio in Berlin. When he died his talented daughter Minya Dührkoop (1873-1929) took over the...
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Lonny Kellner
Lonny Kellner (1930-2003) was a German Schlager singer and actress. She was married to comedian and radio and television personality Peter Frankenfeld. Austrian postcard by Austriapost, Wien, no. 396....
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Axel Eliassons Konstförlag
During the 1910s and 1920s, the heydays of the Swedish film industry, film star postcards formed an important marketing tool. Besides Förlag Nordisk Konst, several other publishers in Sweden produced...
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Les Misérables (2012)
Les Misérables (Tom Hooper, 2012) is a well-executed, powerful film musical. The screenplay by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Herbert Kretzmer, is based on the stage...
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Clint Eastwood
American film actor and director Clint Eastwood (1930) rose to fame as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's classic Spaghetti Westerns Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Per qualche...
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