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Atlantis (1913)
The classic Danish silent film Atlantis (1913) was directed by August Blom for Nordisk. The monumental film was based on the 1912 novel by famous German author Gerhart Hauptmann about a doctor who...
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Britt Ekland
Swedish actress Britt Ekland (1942) became famous through her marriage to Peter Sellers and her relationship with singer Rod Stewart. The platinum blonde was also known for her roles in more than 40...
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15 more cards from G.D.I.
In our monthly post on the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute (GDI), we chose 15 postcards from a big album from the estate of film historians Tjitte de Vries and Ati Mul. It's an album which they probably...
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Photo by Apeda
Apeda was a photography studio in New York City. It was founded in 1906 by Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Sr. (1876–1951) and Henry Obstfield. From its start Apeda pursued two business strategies: shooting...
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Cesar Romero
Tall, suave and sophisticated Cesar Romero (1907-1994) was an American actor, singer, dancer, voice artist, and comedian who was active in film, radio, and television for almost 60 years. His screen...
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Friedrich Kayssler
Friedrich Kayssler (1874-1945) was a German theatre and film actor, writer and composer. He appeared in 56 films between 1913 and 1945. German postcard, no. 853. Photo: Aura Hertwig. German postcard by...
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Percy Marmont
British actor Percy Marmont (1883-1977) was a tall matinee idol, who divided his time between the theatre and films. He had a prolific career in 1920s Hollywood and 1930s British cinema. He is best...
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La Glu (1913)
French actress and singer Mistinguett (1875-1956) was the most popular French entertainer of her time and captivated Paris with her risqué routines. She also appeared more than 60 times in the cinema...
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Dorothy Tutin
Dame Dorothy Tutin (1930-2001) was one of the great actresses of the British theatre. Great promise was held for her after her film debut as Cecily Cardew in the Oscar Wilde adaptation The Importance...
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Giulietta Masina
Italian film and stage actress Giulietta Masina (1921-1994) starred in the classics La strada (1954) and Le notti di Cabiria (1957), both directed by her husband Federico Fellini and both winners of...
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Photo by Strelisky
The Strelisky studio was an acclaimed and extraordinarily popular photographic studio, operated uninterruptedly for nearly a hundred years. Founder Lipót Strelisky (1820–1905) was a master of the...
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Gene Raymond
Gene Raymond (1908-1998) was a blond, husky, handsome actor, who had his greatest popularity in the 1930s and early 1940s. He was married to Jeanette MacDonald, with whom he made Smilin' Through...
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Jacqueline Gauthier
French stage and film actress Jacqueline Gauthier (1921-1982) made her name in comedies alongside fashionable singers such as Charles Trenet, Tino Rossi and Georges Guétary and often worked with...
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Roddy McDowall
British actor Roddy McDowall (1928-1998) began his film career as a child actor and continued it successfully as an adult. McDowall spent most of his life in the United States. He became widely known...
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Waltraut Haas (1927-2025)
Austrian actress and singer Waltraut Haas (1927) died on 23 April 2025 in her hometown of Vienna. She was the popular star of 70 German and Austrian film operettas and comedies during the 1950s and...
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Directed by Luc Besson
Luc Besson (1959) is a French film director, writer and producer associated with the 'Cinéma du Look' film movement. Of his 50 films, eight are among the 100 most successful French films in the world....
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Johanna Matz
On 21 April 2025, Austrian actress Johanna Matz (1932) passed away at the age of 92. In the 1950s, she made a blitz career as the natural 'Wiener Mädel' (the Viennese Gal). Matz acted in more than...
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La Collectionneuse: Helena and Tony D’Algy
Multilingual siblings Helena and Tony D’Algy were born to a Portuguese father and a Spanish mother. They were probably the first film actors of direct Portuguese descent to gain international...
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Carole Landis
Beautiful American theatre and film actress Carole Landis (1919-1948) worked as a contract player for Twentieth Century Fox in the 1940s. Her breakout role was as cave girl Loana in One Million B.C....
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Akim Tamiroff
American actor of Armenian descent Akim Tamiroff (1899-1972) was one of the great character actors of Hollywood's Golden Age. Tamiroff was nominated for an Oscar for his performances in The General...
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Carole Bouquet
Carole Bouquet (1957) is a French actress and fashion model. She is best known for her role as Bond Girl Melina Havelock in the 12th James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only (1981). In the following years,...
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Jules et Jim (1961)
Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962) is a classic of the Nouvelle Vague, the New Wave of the French cinema. Based on a novel by Henri-Pierre Roché, it describes a 30-year relationship between 2...
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Félix Galipaux
Félix Galipaux(1860-1931) was a French actor, playwright, and humorist. He was known for his comic stage monologues, such as 'Communication Téléphonique' (1906). A few of these monologues were...
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Jayne Mansfield
Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood's original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her...
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Directed by Reinhold Schünzel
German actor, producer, scriptwriter and director Reinhold Schünzel (1888-1953) was for a long period one of the most underrated filmmakers of Weimar Germany. He started his successful film career...
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