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Irena Gawecka
Polish actress Irena Gawęcka (1901-1982) was a star of the silent cinema, who made 5 films between 1928 and 1930.Polish postcard by Polonia, Kraków, no. 1337. Photo: Dorys, Warszawa.Polish postcard by...
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Christian Marquand
Handsome Christian Marquand (1927-2000) was a French director, actor and screenwriter working in French cinema. With his virile good looks, easy charm and ready laugh, he was often cast as a heartthrob...
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Lilly Flohr
Austrian film star Lilly Flohr (1893-1978) was a busy actress, soubrette, cabaret artist and chanson singer on stage. From 1918 on she starred in 25 silent films.German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin,...
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Walter Giller
German actor Walter Giller (1927-2011) was the cute boy next door of the German cinema of the 1950s. With Nadja Tiller he became a Dream Couple of the European cinema.German postcard by Ufa, no. CK-44....
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Trainspotting (1996)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996) is a British black comedy film starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her acting debut. It was...
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Paul Wegener
German actor, writer and film director Paul Wegener (1874-1948) is one of the true fathers of the horror and fantasy genre. He is particularly remembered for his three silent films centred around the...
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Photo by Rembrandt
Besides the famous Amsterdam painter, there also used to be an interesting German photo studio called Atelier Rembrandt. Under this name, the photographers Else and Alfred Cohn created the stills for...
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Friedl Hardt
German actress Friedl Hardt (1919-1991) appeared in a dozen West-German and Austrian light entertainment films of the 1950s.German postcard by Ufa/Film-Foto, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. FK 604. Photo: Wesel...
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Elke Sommer
Gorgeous German actress and sex symbol Elke Sommer (1940) made 99 film and television appearances between 1959 and 2005. With her trademark pouty lips, high cheek bones and sky-high bouffant hair-dos,...
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Leo Peukert
Leo Peukert (1885-1944) was a prolific German actor, singer and comedian who appeared in more than 170 films from 1910 on. He mostly appeared as a stocky, plump character actor in comedies. Peukert...
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Nino Ferrer
French-Italian singer, jazz musician and actor Nino Ferrer (1934-1998) was an immensely popular pop star during the second half of the 1960’s. L'homme a tout faire (The Jack of all Trades) also...
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Ein Walzertraum (1925)
Willy Fritsch, Mady Christians and Xenia Desni were the stars in the German silent Ufa production Ein Walzertraum/The Waltz Dream (Ludwig Berger, 1925), based on the Oscar Strauss operetta. The success...
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Teri Tordai
Hungarian actress Teri Tordai (1941) appeared in interesting films by such noted directors as Karoly Makk, István Szabó, Márta Mészáros and Péter Bacsó. During the late 1960s and 1970s she showed her...
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Photo by Studio Arnal
Today EFSP presents some old film star postcards which will allow you to have a glimpse of the work of the French photo studio Arnal. The small studio was located at the time in Paris at the Boulevard...
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Paola Borboni
Paola Borboni (1900-1995) was one of the greatest Italian stage actresses of the 20th Century. From 1918 on, she played in over 80 films. She was also often heard on the radio and seen on television,...
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Mike Bongiorno
Mike Bongiorno (1924-2009) was an Italo-American journalist and television host. For the history of Italian television he has been an institution as Italy’s famous quiz master between the 1950s to the...
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Walter Byron
English film actor Walter Byron (1899-1972) appeared in 66 films between 1926 and 1942. Most notably he starred opposite Gloria Swanson in the legendary 'lost' film Queen Kelly (Erich von Stroheim,...
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Darry Cowl
French comic actor and musician Darry Cowl (1925-2006) appeared in more than 150 films, often as a clown with a chronic stutter. Many of his comedies were not worth his talents, but at the end of his...
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Drohende Wolken am Firmament (1919)
The German silent film Drohende Wolken am Firmament/Threatening clouds in the sky (1918) was directed (probably) and written by its star, Fern Andra. It was also produced by her own studio, Fern Andra...
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Michèle Mercier
Entrancing, luscious-lipped Michèle Mercier (1939) worked with such famous directors as François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Mario Monicelli. And although she appeared in more than fifty films...
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