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Brigitte Auber
Blonde French actress Brigitte Auber (1928) has worked extensively on the French stage and also appeared regularly in films and on TV. Her best-known role, and one of her few English-speaking parts,...
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Miss Campton
Miss Campton (1882 - 1930) was a British-born French stage and screen actress between 1900 and 1930. She was a fashion icon in ladies’ magazines of the Belle Epoque.French postcard by M.G., no. 514....
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David Bowie
The Next Day, the first album of David Bowie (1947) in ten years, has been released today. The English musician and actor has been a major pop star for over four decades now. During the 1970’s, he was...
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Anny Ondra
Anny Ondra (1903 - 1987) was a Czech singer and actress. During the 1920’s and 1930’s, she was a popular star of Czech, Austrian and German comedies. And she was Alfred Hitchcock’s first...
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María Denis
María Denis (1916 - 2004) was one of the most popular stars of the Italian cinema under the Fascist rule. Very successful were her Telefoni Bianchi-films of the 1930´s. Charges of collaboration...
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Bernard Lancret
French actor Bernard Lancret (1912 – 1983) was a popular romantic leading man of the French theatre during the 1930’s. In the cinema he had his breakthrough in the classic La Kermesse héroïque/Carnival...
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The Choice of Jan-Hein Bal
In our series The Choice of..., today a special guest. Jan-Hein Bal is the stills librarian of EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam and thus my former colleague from years ago. He writes: "I'm...
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Dora Komar
Austrian Dora Komar (1914 - 2006) was a Viennese opera star of the 1930’s and 1940’s. She also appeared in five successful film operettas and musicals. After the war she moved to Brazil where she...
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Felix Bressart
German stage and screen actor Felix Bressart (1892 –1949) had to flee Germany after the Nazis seized to power in 1933. He continued his film career in Austria and later in the US, where he became a...
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Lucy Kieselhausen
Austrian dancer Lucy Kieselhausen (1900 – 1926 or 1927) had a successful career on the German stages and appeared in three silent films. Only in her twenties, she died by a tragic accident in her...
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Margaret Rose Keil
German actress Margaret Rose Keil was a blonde, buxom B-film starlet of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Till the early 1980’s she appeared in dozens of Italian comedies, spaghetti-westerns and sexploitation...
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Germaine Rouer
French actress Germaine Rouer (1897 - 1994) had a prolific career on stage and in the cinema during the 1920's and 1930's. She was the star of the rural drama La Terre (1921) by André Antoine.Studio...
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Edmund Purdom
Darkly handsome Edmund Purdom (1924 – 2009) was a British character actor, who wore togas and sandals for a great deal of his career. In Hollywood he replaced Marlon Brando in The Egyptian (1954) and...
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Maria Roasio
Italian actress Maria Roasio (? - ?) appeared as a star of the Italian silent cinema of the late 1910's and early 1920's, in particular at the Ambrosio studio.American Photocine-postcard by A.G.F.Fresh...
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Tamara Desni
Exotic, brunette actress Tamara Desni (1910 – 2008) was the daughter of Ukrainian-born film star Xenia Desni. Tamara started her stage and film career as a child in Berlin, and appeared in several...
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Zarah Leander
Glamorous, mysterious diva Zarah Leander (1907 - 1981) was a Swedish actress and singer, who is now best remembered for her German songs and films from the late 1930's and early 1940's. With her...
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Bernhard Wicki
Swiss actor Bernhard Wicki (1919 – 2000) was a star of the German cinema in the 1950’s. After his successful direction of Die Brücke/The Bridge (1959), he directed several international co-productions...
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Nicolas Koline
Nicolas Koline (1878 - 1966) was one of the Russian actors fleeing from the country after the revolution. He played in several French and German films directed by Russian emigré directors.French...
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Guest post on Starland
Please check out Starland. Edited by my friend David - better known as Bunched Undies, Starland is is one of my favourite 'Stars in the Blogosphere'. David invited me for a guest post and I decided to...
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Helen Vita
Helen Vita (1928 - 2001) was a Swiss cabaret singer, actress and comedian, who appeared in 58 films. During the 1950’s, she was the sexy counterpart to Caterina Valente and Sonja Ziemann in silly...
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