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Michael Rennie
English film, television, and stage actor Michael Rennie (1909-1971) was best known for his starring role as the space visitor Klaatu in the Science Fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still...
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La Petite Illustration
La Petite Illustration started in 1913 as a weekly literary journal that published about new novels and stage plays, as a supplement to the newspaper L'Illustration. In 1925, La Petite Illustration...
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Colette Marchand
Colette Marchand (1925-2015) was a French prima ballerina with a relatively brief acting career. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as streetwalker...
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Barry Coe
American actor Barry Coe (1934-2019) appeared in film and on television from 1956 to 1978. From 1955 onwards, he was cast in several initially minor film roles, often as a soldier in war films. He...
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Marina Vlady
French actress Marina Vlady, who appeared in more than 80 films, died on Thursday, 24 September 2026. The sensual and alluring star had the makings of just another blonde bombshell, but in 1963 she...
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Robert Downey Jr.
American actor Robert Downey Jr. (1965) played his first small role in his father’s film Pound (1970). In 1987, he made his breakthrough playing the cocaine-addicted Julian in Less Than Zero. He was...
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La Collectionneuse: Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale passed away one year ago on the 23rd of September 2025. Here is a personal homage to her through several postcards and items from my collection. Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano,...
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Photo by Atelier Oertel
German photographer Eduard Oertel (1854-1933) is famous for his 19th century photographs of Berlin. Atelier Oertel was founded in 1910 not by Eduard, but by his children, Curt (1890-1960), Franz...
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Colin Firth
English actor Colin Firth (1960) had his breakthrough in Another Country (1984). He received a European Film Award for his role in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and a BAFTA for his role in A Single Man...
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Cléo de Mérode
Cléo de Mérode (1875-1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. She has been referred to as the 'first real celebrity icon' and the 'first modern celebrity '. De Mérode was also the first woman...
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Tom Drake
American actor Tom Drake (1918–1982) was a popular Hollywood co-star of Wallace Beery, Lassie and Deanna Durbin in the 1940s. He is fondly remembered as the wholesome 'boy next door ' that Judy Garland...
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Directed by Paul von Woringen
Dutch-born, German film director Paul von Woringen (1859-1928) was the screenwriter-producer-director of the Deutsche Mutoskop & Biograph (DMB). He made the Autorenfilm Die Landstrasse (1913), but...
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Pola Negri
In the late 1910s and the 1920s, Polish film actress Pola Negri (1897-1987) achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films in Poland, Berlin, and Hollywood. Negri was an overnight sensation in...
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Kevin Bacon
American actor, director, and musician Kevin Bacon (1958) is best known for the hit musical Footloose (1984). His prolific, increasingly distinguished acting career made him the subject of a trivia...
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Published by F. A. Christensen
A French company with the mark 'FA' published hundreds of cards of actors and other subjects before the First World War. FA referred to F. A. Christensen in Rueil. The owner of the company was the...
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Jürgen Prochnow
German actor Jürgen Prochnow (1941) has been acting since 1970. His best-known role is that of the good-hearted and sympathetic Captain Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in the German submarine classic Das...
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Mila Parély
Charismatic, mysterious Mila Parély (1917-2012) was a French actress of Polish ancestry. She was best known for the roles as Geneviève in Renoir's La Règle du jeu (1939) and as Belle's sister in...
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Jon Hall
Good-looking, well-built actor Jon Hall (1915-1979) is best known for his exotic heroes in Universal Pictures. He had his breakthrough in John Ford's The Hurricane (1937), portrayed the Invisible Man...
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Charlotte Böcklin
Charlotte Böcklin (1894-1981) was a German actress of the silent screen. Between 1918 and 1926, she worked with directors such as Alexander von Antalffy, Lorenz Bätz, Carl Boese, Arthur Gunsburg,...
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Helmut Griem
Handsome and suave German actor Helmut Griem (1932-2004) had a long standing career as stage actor but he is also known for his international film and television work. He is best remembered for the...
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