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Ivo's new aquisitions
Lately, Ivo Bloim acquired a few hundred postcards from the early 20th Century. He made a selection for this post and explained why he bought the cards. French postcard by Ed. Le Deley, Paris. Photo:...
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Directed by Otto Rippert
German film director Otto Rippert (1869-1940) was one of the pioneers of German silent cinema who celebrated great commercial and artistic success. His six-part Science-Fiction serial,Ā Homunculus...
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Natalie Portman
Israeli-American actress, director and film producer Natalie Portman (1981) got her first role in the action thriller LĆ©on / The Professional (1994) as Jean Reno's co-star. The big success came when...
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Leo Slezak
Leo Slezak (1873-1946) was an Austrian dramatic tenor. He was associated in particular with Austrian opera as well as the title role in Verdi's 'Otello'. In 1932, he started a second career as a...
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La Collectionneuse: Virginia Bruce
Dreamy-eyed beauty Virginia Bruce had her first big break in the mid-1930s. From then on, she was featured in about forty films until the mid-1940s, but didnāt reach the highest echelon of movie stars....
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Oskar Werner
Talented Austrian actor Oscar Werner (1922-1984) was Jules in FranƧois Truffautās Nouvelle Vague classic Jules et Jim (1962). He is also known for international films like Ship of Fools (1965), The Spy...
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Frida Richard
Frida Richard, also often referred to as Frieda RichardĀ (1873-1946), was an Austrian actress who acted in almost 275 German and Austrian silent and sound films. German postcard by Ross Verlag,...
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Mistinguett
Mistinguett (1875-1956) was a legendary French actress. As a singer, she captivated Paris with her risque routines. She became the most popular French entertainer of her time and the highest-paid...
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Directed by Enrico Guazzoni
Italian director and writer Enrico Guazzoni (1876-1949) started his career as a painter and designer. Before D.W. Griffith, he pioneered epic motion pictures with vast sets and huge casts for which he...
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Edmond O'Brien
Edmond O'Brien (1915-1985) was an American character actor who appeared in several classic Film Noirs. His supporting role as a press agent inĀ TheĀ Barefoot Countess (1954) earned him an Oscar. He was...
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Jan Sterling
Ash-blonde American stage, film and television actress Jan Sterling (1921-2004) was most active in films during the 1950s. She received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her...
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A gift by AƱelo de la Krotsche
We got special mail from France. A connection at Flickr, AƱelo de la Krotsche, wrote to us that he discovered our work and liked it. During the 1980s, he used to try to meet French actresses for a...
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Arjan Ederveen
Arjan Ederveen (1956) is a Dutch actor, comedian, TV scriptwriter and TV director. He participated in the classical satirical Dutch TV series Theo en Thea / Theo and Thea (1985-1989), Kreatief met Kurk...
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Harold Lloyd
American actor, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer Harold Lloyd (1893-1971) is best known for his silent comedies. He ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as...
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Elsa Martinelli
Glamorous Italian actress and former fashion model Elsa Martinelli (1935-2017) showed her beautiful curves in many European and Hollywood productions of the 1950s and 1960s. Somehow she never became...
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Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was an Italian director, poet, and writer. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. He is best...
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George Peppard
During the 1960s, handsome and elegant actor George Peppard (1928-1994) displayed considerable talent in such films as Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), How the West Was Won (1962), The Carpetbaggers...
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Max Adalbert
German stage and film actor Max Adalbert (1874-1933) was one of the great names of the German theatre at the beginning of the twentieth century. He was famous for his roles in comedies. His greatest...
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Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson (1986) is a British actor and musician. He began his career in theatre and made his film debut in 2004. The young Patterson gained attention as Carlo Diggory in Harry Potter and the...
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15 postcards from GDI: Dutch postcards of the late 1940s
In our monthly post on the postcard collection of the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute (GDI), we again chose 15 postcards from a big album from the estate of film historians Tjitte de Vries and Ati Mul....
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Photo by Lizzie Caswall Smith
Lizzie Caswall Smith (1870ā1958) was an early 20th-century British photographer who specialised in society and celebrity studio portraits. She was associated with the Women's Suffrage movement and...
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Vladimir Maksimov
Elegant Vladimir Maksimov (1880-1937) was one of the most popular film stars of the Russian empire. After the revolution he became known known for the Soviet films Skorb beskonechnaya / Infinite Sorrow...
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For Lucas: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard", Winnie the Pooh. On 10 June, my youngest son, Lucas (30), passed away after an epileptic fit and cardiac arrest. Lucas was my angel...
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Sissy Spacek
Sissy Spacek (1949) is an American actress and singer with an enduring and award-winning career in film and television. She became a star with her Oscar-nominated performance in Carrie (1976), in which...
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Richard Conte
Richard Conte (1910-1975) was an American actor, who often appeared in Film Noirs and crime dramas of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Two decades later, he returned to the screen as gangster boss Don...
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