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Lilian Hall-Davis
Lilian Hall-Davis (1897-1933) was one of the brightest stars of the British silent cinema. For a while she was Hitchcock's Favourite Actress. Failing to make the transition to the talkies, she...
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Gitte Hænning
Danish singer and film actress Gitte Hænning (1946) rose to fame as a child star in the 1950s. As Gitte she became one of the most famous Schlager (hit music) singers of the German and Danish...
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Anita Berber
Expressionistic dancer and film actress Anita Berber (1899–1928) challenged many taboos during the Weimar period. With her drugs and alcohol addictions, her scandalous hotel orgies and her bisexual...
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Marie-France Boyer
French actress and businesswoman Marie-France Boyer (1938) was a beautiful starlet in many European films and TV-series of the 1960s. Her most notable film is Le Bonheur (1965), one of the masterpieces...
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Til Schweiger
Handsome actor, director, and producer Til Schweiger (1963) is one of Germany's most successful filmmakers. Since 1990, no other German actor has drawn more people to the cinemas.German postcard....
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Imported from the USA: Clint Eastwood
American film actor and director Clint Eastwood (1930) rose to fame as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's classic Spaghetti Westerns Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Per qualche...
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Aliki Vouyouklaki
Blonde, dark-eyed Aliki Vouyouklaki (Greek: Αλίκη Βουγιουκλάκη) (1934-1996) was one of the most popular and successful actresses of the Greek cinema. She appeared in 42 films, mostly comedies and...
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Happy birthday, Cornelia Froboess!
Today Die Connie has her 70th birthday! German singer an actress Cornelia 'Conny' Froboess (1943) started her career 62 years ago with the cheery song Pack die Badehose ein (1951, Pack Your Swimsuit)....
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Juana Borguèse
Very little is known about Juana Borguèse who played the evil Baronne d'Apremont in the French silent serial La nouvelle mission de Judex/The New Mission of Judex (1917-1918). French postcard by...
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Matthieu van Eysden
Dutch actor and cabaret artist Matthieu van Eysden (1896-1970) had a busy career as a supporting actor in stage plays, on television and in silent and sound films.Dutch vintage postcard by Monopole...
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Barbara Brylska
During the 1970s, Polish actress Barbara Brylska (1941) was featured in numerous films throughout the countries of the Warsaw Pact. She is noted especially for her role as Nadya in the classic Soviet...
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Anna Dammann
Beautiful Anna Dammann (1912-1993) was one of the major theatre actresses of Germany in the 20th Century. In 1932 she debuted on the stage as Brunhild in Friedrich Hebbel’s Die Nibelungen and would go...
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Casanova (1927)
In the next ten weeks, we will present you ten new film specials. Today we start with the silent classic Casanova (1927), directed by Russian director Alexandre Volkoff aka Aleksandr Volkoff. Starring...
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Lisa Gastoni
Gorgeous Lisa Gastoni (1935) is an Italian film actress, who started her career with small parts in British films. In the 1960s and 1970s she became a sensual leading lady of the Italian cinema, who...
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Genica Missirio
Genica Missirio (1895-?) was a Romanian actor who starred in the French silent cinema of the 1920s.French postcard by Editions Cinémagazine, no. 414. Photo: Sartony.A Huge Commercial SuccessLittle is...
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Rowan Atkinson
Funny English actor and screenwriter Rowan Atkinson (1955) is best known for his much-loved historical sitcom Blackadder (1983-1989) and for the series around the clumsy, face-pulling Mr. Bean...
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Madeleine Carroll
British actress Madeleine Carroll (1906–1987) was a beauty of ladylike demeanour. The first of Alfred Hitchcock's ‘ice-cool blondes’ was immensely popular in the 1930s and 1940s. She was nicknamed 'The...
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Georgette de Néry
Georgette de Néry aka de Nérys played Primerose in the sequel, La nouvelle mission de Judex (1916-1917). She didn't appear in the original Judex film, and La nouvelle mission de Judex was probably...
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Happy Birthday, Alain Delon!
Today is the 78th birthday of Alain Delon (1935). The French film star was a breathtakingly good-looking parasite in the sun drenched thriller Plein soleil/Purple Noon (René Clément, 1960). The 'male...
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Verdun, visions d'histoire (1928)
In two months it will be 2014 and it will be 100 years ago that the First World War started. European Film Gateway 1914 is an interesting digitisation project focusing on films and non-film material...
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