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Valeska Gert
For Jan.Jewish cabaret artist Valeska Gert (1892-1978) became famous in Berlin with her radical modern dances. With her dark, aquiline features. she was also active as an artists' model and appeared in...
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Richard Attenborough
English actor, film director and producer Richard Attenborough (1923) won two Oscars for Gandhi in 1983. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. As an actor he is known for his...
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Fernanda Negri Pouget
Fernanda Negri Pouget (1889-1955) was an Italian actress who starred in the Italian silent cinema of the 1910s.Italian postcard by Vettori, Bologna, no. 171. Photo: Civirani, RomeSad EyesFernanda Negri...
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Rejuvenated
Dear friends,Another month, a new design. The previous months, I rejuvenated the look of EFSP, bit by bit, here and there, but the postcards, stars and stories will stay vintage.What's new? Above the...
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Marcel Lévesque
French actor and scriptwriter Marcel Lévesque (1877-1962) excelled in silent and sound comedies but he also played memorable parts in the crime serials by Louis Feuillade and in Jean Renoir’s Le crime...
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Imported from the USA: Lex Barker
We continue our new series 'Imported from the USA' with Lex Barker. After a Hollywood career as Tarzan and Mr Lana Turner, Barker moved to Europe. Here he worked with Federico Fellini and later became...
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Vilma Bánky
Hungarian-born silent film star Vilma Bánky (1901-1991) filmed in Budapest, France, Austria, and Germany, before Sam Goldwyn took her to Hollywood. There she starred opposite silent stars like Rudolph...
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Dick Rivers
French singer and actor Dick Rivers (1945) was - with Eddy Mitchell and Johnny Hallyday - one of the three stars who introduced Rock and Roll in France in the early 1960s. In later life, he also...
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Ilse Werner
Dutch-born actress and singer Ilse Werner (1921-2005) was one of the most popular stars of the German screen during the Nazi years. After the war she became a successful Schlager singer. Her nickname,...
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Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar (1905-1986) was a French dancer, choreographer and ballet master of Ukrainian origin. He was one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century and considered the successor to...
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Veit Harlan
Film director and actor Veit Harlan (1899-1964) was one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers. His most perfidious film was the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Süß/Jew Süss (1940) filled with...
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Hedy Lamarr
Glamorous, seductive film star and engineer Hedy Lamarr (1913–2000) was born in Austria. The notorious Czechoslovak film Ekstase/Ecstasy (1933) made her an international sensation, and Louis B. Mayer...
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Imported from the USA: Anna May Wong
Stunning Anna May Wong (1905-1961) was the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Frustrated by the stereotypical supporting roles...
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Jacques Charrier
French actor and film producer Jacques Charrier (1936) played leading roles in the late 1950s and 1960s, but gained notoriety when he married Brigitte Bardot. Their brief, tumultuous marriage was...
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Matheson Lang
Tall and good-looking Matheson Lang (1879-1948) was a Canadian-born stage and film actor and playwright in the early 20th century. He is best known for his Shakespearean roles in British productions of...
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Eve Eden
Popular pin-up model Eve Eden (1940) aka Rosa Dolmai was a starlet in British B-films of the late 1950’s and 1960’s.Yugoslavian postcard by Grafoplastika DD, Smederova.Anatomical MarvelEve Eden was...
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Horst Buchholz
Horst ‘Hotte’ Buchholz (1933-2003) was the James Dean of the German Cinema. He was often type casted as a rebellious teenager in the late 1950s. Horst appeared in over sixty films between 1952 and 2002...
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Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) was a German-American actor, screenwriter, producer and film director, who started his career in the silent cinema of the Weimar Republic. During the 1920s, his urbane...
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Eleonora Rossi Drago
Voluptuous, visually stunning Italian film actress Eleonora Rossi Drago (1925–2007) played princesses and temptresses throughout Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. She never found the international...
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Imported from the USA: Carroll Baker
American film, stage and television actress Carroll Baker (1931) enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and as a sex symbol. Cast in a wide range of roles during her heyday in the 1960s,...
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