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The Invisible Man (1933)
The Invisible Man (James Whale, 1933) is one of the best films of the early Universal horror series of the 1930s. The script, based on H.G. Wells science fiction classic, is solid and tight, and James...
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Abie's Irish Rose (1928)
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and Nancy Carroll are the adorable stars of the American comedy drama Abie's Irish Rose (Victor Fleming, 1928). The Paramount production was based on a popular Broadway play....
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Muriel Pavlow (1921-2019)
British actress Muriel Pavlow passed away on 19 January 2019. The charming, delicate Pavlow was the quintessential English girl of many British films of the 1950s. She was usually cast as an unselfish...
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The Great Caruso (1951)
Mario Lanza's masterpiece was The Great Caruso (Richard Thorpe, 1951). His voice in the film was so dazzling that an awestruck Arturo Toscanini called it the "voice of the century". The Great Caruso...
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Photo by Cines
Cines was the first major Italian film studio. Filoteo Alberini and Dante Santoni founded the studio in 1905 as ‘Alberini & Santoni’, then changed it in 1906 to the public corporation ‘Società...
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Charles Bronson
American actor Charles Bronson (1921-2003) was the archetypal screen tough guy with weather beaten features, often cast in the role of police officer, gunfighter, or convict. He was a man of few words...
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Heidegretel (1918)
Hella Moja played the title role in the German silent melodrama Heide-Gretel (Otto Rippert, 1918). The film was produced by Erich Pommer for the Decla-Filmgellschaft. Rotophoto published a series of...
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Kampf um die Scholle (1925)
Kampf um die Scholle/Struggle for the Soil (Erich Waschneck, 1925) was produced by the Cutural Department of the Universum Film AG (UFA). This was also announced on the series of Ross Verlag cards,...
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Das Deutsche Lied (1928)
Das Deutsche Lied/The German song (Karl Pindl, 1928) was a silent film produced by the Döring film company in Hannover, under guidance of the Deutsche Sängerbund (DSB), the singers union. The film had...
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Dorothy Lamour
American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996) is best remembered for appearing in the Road to... comedies, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. During World War II, Lamour was among the most...
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Because You're Mine (1952)
Because You're Mine (Alexander Hall, 1952) was Mario Lanza's fourth film. He played a famous opera singer, who falls for his sergeant's sister at boot camp. Although there are parallels with his own...
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Johnny Lion (1931-2019)
On Thursday 31 January 2019, Dutch singer and actor Johnny Lion (1931-2019) passed away. From 1959 on, he had success with his band the Jumping Jewels. Solo, he had single luck with the evergreen...
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Photo by Hepworth
One of the best known pioneers among the British film studios was Hepworth. Cecil M. Hepworth set up the production company Hepworth and Co. in 1898. It was later renamed the Hepworth Manufacturing...
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Noi vivi (1942)
Alida Valli, Rossano Brazzi and Fosco Giachetti were the stars of the Italian film Noi Vivi/We the Living (Goffredo Alessandrini, 1942). The film - in two parts - was one of the biggest box office hits...
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Fräulein Wildfang (1916)
In Fräulein Wildfang (Friedrich Zelnik, 1916), sweet German actress Lisa Weise appeared in the title role. She starred in a dozen silent German films of the 1910s, and most of them, including Fräulein...
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Julie Adams (1926-2019)
American actress Julie or Julia Adams (1926-2019) passed away last Sunday, 3 February 2019. Adams starred in a number of films in the 1950s. She was best known for the cult film The Creature of the...
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Der Bettelstudent (1927)
Der Bettelstudent/The Beggar Student (Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck, 1927) is a silent film operetta, a popular genre of the Weimar cinema. It is an adaptation of Carl Millöcker's popular operetta The...
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Maureen O'Sullivan
Delicately beautiful Maureen O'Sullivan (1911-1998) was an Irish-born actress best known for playing scantily clad Jane in the Tarzan film series starring Johnny Weissmuller. She also appeared in such...
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Albert Finney (1936–2019)
Yesterday, 8 Februari 2019, British actor Albert Finney (1936–2019) died. The dynamic, often explosive, stage and screen star was one of the working class and provincial actors that revolutionised...
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Photo by The Rank Organisation
The Rank Organisation dominated British cinema throughout the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and to some extent the 1960s. The British entertainment conglomerate was founded by industrialist J. Arthur Rank in...
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