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Annibale Ninchi
Italian stage and screen actor and playwright Annibale Ninchi (1889-1967) became famous as the title character in Scipione l’Africano (1937) but also as the father in Fellini’s La dolce vita (1960) and...
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Heintje
Dutch singer and actor Hein Simons (1955) was a famous child star in the 1960s under the name Heintje. He sang in Dutch, English, German, Japanese and Afrikaans, and sold more than 40 million records...
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Pasquali Film
Pasquali Film was one of the pioneering Italian film companies. Pasquali had its golden years in the period 1912-1914, with a yearly large output in films. In 1912 it was the second biggest producer of...
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Gilbert Bécaud
French singer, composer and film actor Gilbert Bécaud (1927-2001) was known as Monsieur 100,000 Volts for his energetic performances. For nearly fifty years France hummed the melodies of this charming...
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Pascale Roberts (1933-2019)
Last Saturday, 26 October 2019, French actress Pascale Roberts (1933) passed away. She had been active in the French cinema and television since 1954. From her femme fatale parts in B-thrillers and...
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Wogen des Schicksals (1918)
German silent film diva Mia May was the star of Wogen des Schicksals/Waves of fate (1918). Her husband Joe May was the producer, writer and director of the melodrama. Rotophot published the sepia...
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Charles Ray
Charles Ray (1891-1943) was an American actor, scriptwriter, and director of the silent screen, who knew a parabola from rags to riches and back again. He worked for e.g. Paramount, his own company,...
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Laura La Plante
Laura La Plante (1904–1996) was an American actress, best known for such silent films as Smouldering Fires (Clarence Brown, 1925), Skinner's Dress Suit (William Seiter, 1926), and The Cat and the...
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The demystification of Ila Meery
Ila Meery (1908-1974 (?)) was a Hungarian born actress who appeared in German and French late silent and early sound films. Her history was a mystery. French Wikipedia wrote she was one of the...
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New Acquisitions: De Reszke
Two years ago, EFSP had a post on the De Reszke film postcard series. De Reske was a, now forgotten, British cigarette brand, named after Jean de Reszke (1850-1925), a famous Polish opera star of the...
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Barbara Valentin
Film and TV actress Barbara Valentin (1940-2002) was dubbed the 'German Jayne Mansfield' and a 'Scandal Magnet'. Her resume includes sex films but also art films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder....
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Marie Laforêt (1939-2019)
On Saturday 2 November 2019, French singer and actress of Armenian descent Marie Laforêt (1939) has passed away. After her first appearance in the drama Plein Soleil (René Clément, 1960) opposite Alain...
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Pamela Anderson is Barb Wire (1996)
Sexy Canadian-American actress and model Pamela Anderson (1967) is best known for the TV series Home Improvement, Baywatch and V.I.P., and a record 14 Playboy covers. Furthermore the platinum blonde...
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Willy Hagara
Austrian singer and actor Willy Hagara (1927-2015) was a popular film and TV star from the mid 1950s till the mid 1960s. The discrete and elegant Schlager star had five Top 10 hits, including the...
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Piper Laurie
Piper Laurie (1932) is an American stage and screen actress known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), all of which brought her Oscar...
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Buck Jones
American film star Buck Jones (1891–1942) starred in many popular B-Westerns of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Executive William Fox decided to use him as a backup to Tom Mix. This led to his first...
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New acquisitions: Nos artistes dans leur loge
Ivo Blom recently acquired more than 20 postcards in the 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' series, published by the French journal Comoedia, located in Paris. The series offers a glimpse of many French...
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Yvonne de Bray
Yvonne de Bray (1887-1954) was a French stage and screen actress, famous for her role as Sophie in Jean Cocteau's film Les parents terribles (1948).French postcard by Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: Henri...
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Milton Sills
Milton Sills (1882-1930) was a major American silent film actor and university professor. His relatively early death and his unusual career made him a legend.Danish postcard by Stenders Kunstforlag,...
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Der alte Fritz (1928)
The German silent film Der alte Fritz/The Old Fritz (Gerhard Lamprecht, 1928) was one of the 16 films in which Otto Gebühr interpreted Friedrich II (Frederick the Great). It was the last of the...
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