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Matt Dillon
American actor Matt Dillon (1964) has had a successful film career has spanned over three decades. From his breakthrough performance in Francis Coppola's The Outsiders (1983) to his hilarious turn as...
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Nur ein Schmetterling (1918)
Hella Moja starred in the German silent film Nur ein Schmetterling/Only a Butterfly (Iwa Raffay, 1918). Her own film company, Hella-Moja-Film, produced the film. Rotophot published a series of five...
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Isabelle Corey
French film actress Isabelle Corey (1939-2011) appeared in French and Italian films in the 1950s and early 1960s. Her best film was her first, the Film Noir Bob le flambeur/Bob the Gambler (Jean-Pierre...
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Fritz Wagner
German actor Fritz Wagner (1915-1982) was a handsome star in the European cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. From 1938 to 1976, he appeared in more than sixty films and TV productions, both in Eastern...
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Women Film Pioneers, Part 2: Europe
Today starts the 10th Women and the Silent Screen Conference, hosted by Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. On 8 March, International Women's Day, EFSP had a post with 20 American women who both worked in...
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Photo by Gainsborough
Gainsborough Pictures was a British film studio based on the south bank of the Regent's Canal, in north London. Gainsborough Studios was active between 1924 and 1951. The company was initially based at...
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Diane Lane
American actress Diane Lane (1965) started her film career opposite Laurence Olivier at age 13. She appeared in Francis Coppola's cult classics Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983) and the...
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Bertram Wallis
Tall and handsome Bertram Wallis (1874-1952) was a renowned English actor and singer. He was a glamorous matinee idol in popular plays and musical comedies of the early 20th century. Between the two...
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Der Todessprung (1919)
Fern Andra (1893-1974) was one of the most popular film stars of the German cinema in the 1910s and early 1920s. In her films, she mastered tightrope walking, riding a horse without a saddle, driving...
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Michelle Pfeiffer
American actress and producer Michelle Pfeiffer (1958) was one of the most popular and talented Hollywood actresses of the 1980s and 1990s. Her rare beauty inspired countless platitudes and an...
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Charlton Heston
Tall, well built and ruggedly handsome American actor Charlton Heston (1923-2008) appeared in 100 Hollywood films over the course of 60 years. With features chiseled in stone, he became famous for...
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Photo by American Kinema
The French company Pathé started to distribute its films in the United States, from 1900 on. In 1904, it launched an American subsidiary, Pathé Company, based in Buffalo, New York. In 1910 Pathé opened...
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George Walsh
George Walsh (1889-1981) was an American film actor, who despite a successful career in silent cinema is best remembered for the loss of the part of a lifetime: the title role in Ben-Hur (1925).British...
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Gail Russell
American actress Gail Russell (1924-1961) was an incredible doe-eyed beauty who presented a screen image of great innocence and vulnerability. She is best known for the supernatural horror film The...
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Ermete Novelli
Ermete Novelli (1851-1919) was a legendary monstre sacré of the Italian theatre. When the famous actor and playwright appeared in films of the Film d'Arte Italiana, the press condemned his theatrical...
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Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg (1918)
German actress, writer and producer Hedda Vernon (1866-?) appeared in more than 60 films of the early silent period. She made the drama Wo ein Wille, ist ein Weg/Where there is a will, there is a way...
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Gilbert Gil
Gilbert Gil (1913-1988), originally Gilbert Moreau, was a French stage and screen actor, who mostly had supporting acts in French cinema between the mid-1930s and the early 1960s. He had a stage career...
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Gary Cooper
American screen legend Gary Cooper (1901-1961) is well remembered for his stoic, understated acting style in more than one hundred Westerns, comedies and dramas. He received five Oscar nominations and...
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Let's puzzle
Do you know the phenomenon 'mystery cards'? We have several mystery cards in our collection. Marlene Pilaete defines them as "cards uncorrectly captioned or cards without any name on them or cards on...
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Claudia Cardinale is here
La Cardinale is in town! CC visits Amsterdam as a special guest of the Italian film week 'Fare Cinema'. Tonight, she will be interviewed before the screening of Luchino Visconti's Il gattopardo (1963)...
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