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Union Film or the Projektions-AG Union (PAGU) was a German film production company which operated during the silent era between 1911 and 1924. The company was founded by Paul Davidson, a leading cinema...
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Haarlem Film City
Today a new film book will be presented, 'Haarlem filmstad' (Haarlem film city), edited by Harry Hosman and Arie Vestering. 'Haarlem Film city' describes the cinema life and the well-known and...
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Tragödie (1925)
Tragödie/Tragedy (Carl Froelich, 1925) is a lost film. None of the sources gives a plot of the film, but the title says it all. Because of her past (the letter!), Henny Porten loses her wealthy life as...
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Gunnar Möller
German actor Gunnar Möller (1928-2017) was one of the stars of the Wirtschaftswunder Kino of the 1950s. He appeared in over 160 film and television productions between 1940 and 2016. He later turned to...
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The Son of the Sheik (1926)
The Son of the Sheik (George Fitzmaurice, 1926) is one of the most popular films from the silent era. It is a delightful adventure full of romance, action and drama. It was the last film of...
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Margaret Livingston
Margaret Livingston (1895–1984) was an American film actress and businesswoman, most notable for her work during the silent film era. She remains best known today as 'the Woman from the City' in F.W....
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Betty Grable
American film star Betty Grable (1916-1973) was known as 'The Girl With the Million Dollar Legs'. During World War II, the quicksilver blonde's famous pin-up pose - in bathing suit, back to the camera,...
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Photo by Decla
Decla Film (originally Deutsche Eclair) was a German film production and distribution company of the silent era. Formed in 1911 as the German subsidiary of the French company Eclair, it was taken into...
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Tyrone Power
Strikingly handsome Tyrone Power (1914-1959) was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of Hollywood’s golden age. From the 1930s to the 1950s, Power starred in such adventure films as The Mark...
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La bocca chiusa (1925)
Italian diva Maria Jacobini stars as a poor country girl in the silent drama La bocca chiusa/The closed mouth (Guglielmo Zorzi, 1925). Lido Manetti aka Arnold Kent plays a British duke who seduces her....
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Meine Tante - deine Tante (1927)
Henny Porten and Angelo Ferrari are the stars of the German silent comedy Meine Tante - deine Tante/My Aunt, Your Aunt (Carl Froehlich, 1927). Henny Porten-Froelich-Produktion produced it and the Ufa...
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Zopf und Schwert (1926)
The 'Prussian films' on Frederick the Great were a huge success in Weimar. The Aafa Film company decided to produce also a film set at the court of 18th century Prussia: Zopf und Schwert/Braid and...
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The Kid (1921)
The Kid (1921) is one of the greatest films of the silent era. The comedy-drama was written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin. He also stars in it with Jackie Coogan as his adopted son and...
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Linda Darnell
American film actress Linda Darnell (1923-1965) progressed from modelling as a child to acting in theatre and film as an adolescent. The ravishing beauty appeared in supporting roles in big-budget...
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Aafa or Aafa-Film was a German film production and distribution company which operated during the 1920s and 1930s. Established in 1920 as Radio-Film, the company was controlled by the producer Gabriel...
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Jean Harlow
American film actress Jean Harlow (1911–1937) was with her come-hither body, platinum blonde hair, and keen sense of humour, one of Hollywood's sex symbols of the 1930s. She had her breakthrough in...
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Richard Gere
American actor Richard Gere (1949) has been hailed as The Sexiest Man alive and a humanitarian, but he is foremost a good actor. He shone in such box office hits as American Gigolo (1980), An Officer...
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Nadja Regin (1931-2019)
On 7 April, Serbian actress Nadja Regin (1931-2019) passed away. She started her career in Yugoslav-German co-productions and later she worked in Germany, Austria and New Zealand. In England, she...
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Hintertreppe (1921)
Hintertreppe/Backstairs (Leopold Jessner, Paul Leni, 1921) is an early example of the German Kammerspiel film. Henny Porten, Wilhelm Dieterle and Fritz Kortner played the lead roles. Henny Porten's...
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Les Mystères de New York (1915)
The French serial Les Mystères de New York/The Mysteries of New York (1915) is an oddity. In fact it is a European re-edition of three American serials, starring Pearl White: The Exploits of Elaine...
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