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Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple (1928-2014) was an American film and television actress, singer, dancer and public servant, but everybody knows her as the most famous child star in the 1930s. Shirley could do it all:...
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Ricardo Montalban
Handsome Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban (1920-2009) was the epitome of elegance, charm and grace on film, stage and television. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he reinvigorated the Latin Lover...
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Zizi Jeanmaire
Glamorous ballet dancer and film star Zizi Jeanmaire (1924) became famous in the 1950s after playing the title role in the ballet version of Carmen, produced in London in 1949. She went on to appear in...
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Das goldene Kalb (1924)
The German silent drama Das goldene Kalb/The Golden Calf (1924) by Peter Paul Felner has an all-star cast with Henny Porten, Albert Steinrück, Olga Engl, Rosa Valetti, Angelo Ferrari, Colette Brettel,...
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Elli Parvo
Elli Parvo (1914–2010) was an Italian screen actress between the mid-1930s and 1960 and known as 'the woman men fight over' as in Desiderio (1943-1945) or 'the femme fatale' as in Il sole sorge ancora...
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Corinne Griffith
Corinne Griffith (1894–1979) was dubbed 'The Orchid Lady of the Screen'. She was one of the most popular American film actresses of the 1920s and widely considered the most beautiful star of the silent...
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Photo by MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM or Metro) is one of the world's oldest film studios. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures,...
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Cameron Diaz
Blue-eyed, natural blonde Cameron Diaz (1972) is a former model and film actress. Her big break arrived in 1994 with the Jim Carrey film The Mask. Roles in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), There's...
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15 films we loved at Il Cinema Ritrovato
Looking back at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2019, we can definitively say the 33rd edition was one of the best editions yet - and one of the warmest. The Fox programme offered some unforgettable masterpieces,...
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New Acquisitions: Italian postcards by Cines-Pittaluga
Today and tomorrow, EFSP does two posts on postcards Ivo Blom acquired last month at the Il Cinema Ritrovato Book Fair in Bologna. Tomorrow a film special on the Italian silent drama Zingari (1920),...
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New acquisitions: Zingari (1920)
Today the second post on postcards Ivo Blom acquired last month at the Il Cinema Ritrovato Book Fair in Bologna. It's a film special on the Italian silent drama Zingari/Gypsies (1920), starring diva...
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Valentina Cortese dies at 96
Yesterday, Wednesday 10 July 2019, Italian film and stage actress Valentina Cortese (1923-2019) has passed away in Milan. She appeared in more than 100 Italian, French, British and American films and...
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Producer Artur Brauner dies at 100
On Sunday 7 July 2019, prolific film producer and writer Arthur Brauner (1918-2019) has passed away. He was one of the most successful and best-known film producers in Germany. Brauner, himself Jewish,...
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Konstantin Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theatre
Konstantin Stanislavski (1863-1938) was an outstanding Russian character actor and one of the leading theatre directors of his generation. He founded the legendary Moscow Art Theatre (MAT), and...
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Evelyn Brent
Evelyn Brent (1899-1975), was an American actress of the silent screen. Josef von Sternberg paved the way for her to become a top star through her role of the tough prostitute Feathers in Underworld...
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Barbara Lang
Beautiful, brassy Barbara Lang (1928–1982) was an American actress and singer. During the 1950s she was one of the many B-level blondes in Hollywood who were promoted as the new Marilyn Monroe....
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I.N.R.I. (1923)
The German silent film I.N.R.I. (1923), directed by Robert Wiene, was one of the first big-screen adaptations of the Passion of Christ. The film retells the events leading up to the crucifixion of...
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Rolf Wanka
Austrian actor Rolf Wanka (1901-1982) was a handsome, suave star of the European cinema of the 1930s and the 1950s. He often played supporting parts as well-dressed, dignified gentlemen, and appeared...
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Sophia Loren's Ieri, Oggi Domani
New series alert! This Summer, I read several film books (some interesting, some great). On the coming Thursdays, I would like to share my thoughts about them at EFSP. I'll combine these 'book reviews'...
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Jodie Foster
American actress, director, and producer Jodie Foster (1962) has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and the Cecil B...
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