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Nasty women
Since yesterday, EFSP follows Le Giornate del Cinema Muto again - till Saturday 12 October. The Silent Film Festival in Pordenone is the main festival in its kind and this year's edition is the 38th....
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The Origins of European Slapstick
Till Saturday 12 October EFSP follows Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. The Silent Film Festival in Pordenone is the main festival in its kind and this year's edition is the 38th. Yesterday we had a post on...
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William S. Hart
Till Saturday 12 October EFSP follows Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone. The subject of one of the retrospectives of this year's festival is William S. Hart (1864–1946), the foremost Western...
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Suzanne Grandais
EFSP follows Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone. Subject of one of the retrospectives of this year's festival is striking, sophisticated Suzanne Grandais (1893-1920). She was the most beautiful...
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Mistinguett
EFSP still follows Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone. The retrospective of Suzanne Grandais, about which we posted yesterday, is combined with a retrospective on another legendary French...
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Rediscovered: the Silent Joan Crawford
Till Saturday 12 October EFSP follows Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone. A major section of this year's festival is 'Restorations & Rediscoveries'. One of the films is Sally, Irene and Mary...
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Ivor Novello
Today is the final day of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2019. The Silent Film Festival in Pordenone closes with the classic Hitchcock thriller The Lodger (1927). So in its last Pordenone post, EFSP...
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Diahann Carroll (1935-2019)
On 4 October 2019, Diahann Carroll died of cancer, aged 84. She was among the foremost African American actors to break down long-seated prejudices in casting. Carroll was the first black performer to...
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Karel Gott (1939-2019)
On 1 October 2019, Schlager singer and actor Karel Gott (1939-2019) passed away. He was the most successful male singer of the Czech Republic, and also had many successes in the German-speaking...
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L'arzigogolo (1924)
Today's film special is about the Italian silent film L'arzigogolo/The Court Jester (Mario Almirante, 1924). The successful costume drama starred diva Italia Almirante Manzini, Annibale Betrone and...
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Marie-José Nat (1940-2019)
On 10 October 2019, French actress Marie-José Nat(1940) passed away. She was an acclaimed stage, film and television star, who played glamorous, exotic roles in many films of the 1960s and 1970s....
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A gift: Cinema publicity in Amsterdam
Some years ago, our friend and cinema photo collector Roloff de Jeu arrived at a birthday party with a huge gift for us. He carried a big and heavy wooden frame with him, which had been once part of an...
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Lya de Putti
Hungarian born film star Lya de Putti (1897-1931) portrayed vamps in German and American silent films. In 1925 she reached the zenith of her career with the leading role in the Weimar classic Variété,...
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New acquisitions: More Vedettes de Cinéma
Ivo Blom found this series of French postcards of the Les Vedettes de Cinéma series. The series, published by A.N. (Armand Noyer) in Paris, gives a good impression of the most popular silent stars of...
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Norma Shearer
American actress Norma Shearer (1902-1983) was the 'First Lady of MGM'. She often played spunky, sexually liberated ingenues, and was the first person to be nominated five times for an Academy Award...
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Artists and Models
Today, EFSP collaborator Ivo Blom will give a paper at a symposium at the Centre National pour la Cinématographie (CNC, Paris), within the framework of the Franco-Italian-Dutch research project LE...
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Marie Ventura
Marie or Maria Ventura (1888-1954) was a Romanian-French actress and theatre director. She became well known in the silent cinema with her role in the popular serial Les misérables (1912). From 1919...
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Adrian Hoven
Austrian actor Adrian Hoven (1922-1981) was the athletic and dynamic Sonnyboy of the German cinema in the 1950s, who would become one of the stars of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films in the 1970s. As a...
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Terra madre (1931)
Terra madre/Mother Earth (Alessandro Blasetti, 1931), is an Italian early sound film starring Leda Gloria, Sandro Salvini, and Isa Pola. The rural drama was produced by Cines-Pittaluga. The photography...
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Olaf Fjord
Olaf Fjord (1897-1945) was an Austrian film actor, director and producer. He appeared in numerous Austrian, German, French, and Czech silent films.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 775/1, 1925-1926....
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