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Zuflucht (1928)
For the social melodrama Zuflucht (1928), Henny Porten invited stage actor Franz Lederer to be her co-star. His film debut immediately tuned the handsome Czech actor into a popular film star....
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Edwige Feuillère
Charming and elegant Edwige Feuillère (1907-1998) was during the 1940s the ‘First Lady’ of the French cinema. Edwige was known for the ease in which she could switch from playing sophisticated sexy...
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Bernd Aldor
Bernd Aldor (1881-1950) was a star of the German silent cinema in the 1910s and 1920s, often in films by Richard Oswald or Lupu Pick. Sound film and the Nazi regime broke the career of this Jewish...
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Dolores Costello
American film actress Dolores Costello (1903-1979) was 'The Goddess of the Silent Screen'. She was Hollywood royalty: the daughter of popular matinee idol Maurice Costello, wife of John Barrymore and...
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The Girls of Progress
VEB Progress Filmvertrieb had the monopoly on film distribution in East-Germany and produced thousands of wonderful star postcards to help promote the films. These cards give an unique impression of...
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Elga Andersen
Slender, blonde German actress Elga Andersen (1935) starred in international films of the 1950s and 1960s. She was also a popular recording artist during the 1960s, known for singing the title song for...
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Franz Lederer
Dark and gorgeous looking actor Franz Lederer (1899–2000) had a successful film and stage career, first in Europe, then in the United States as Francis Lederer.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no....
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Triumph for The Favourite at the European Film Awards 2019
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite (2018) was the big winner at the European Film Awards, last Saturday 7 December 2019, winning eight prizes including best film, best director, best actress for Olivia...
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Die grosse Pause (1927)
The German silent drama Die grosse Pause/The Long Intermission (Carl Froehlich, 1927) was another Henny Porten film, produced by her own production company Henny Porten-Froehlich Produktion GmbH. Fred...
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Tilde Kassay
Tilde Kassay, born Matilde Cassai (1887-1964), was an Italian silent film actress between 1915 and 1921. Most of her films are considered lost, but sometimes a wonder happens.Italian postcard by Ed. A....
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Norbert Rohringer
Austrian actor Norbert Rohringer (1927-2009) was a child star in the Third Reich. The blond boy played the leading role in the propagandistic NS youth film Jakko (1941). He appeared in 13 films. After...
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Johnny Depp
American actor Johnny Depp is one of the most versatile actors in today's Hollywood. He made his film debut as one of Freddy Krueger's victims in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). With his dark,...
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New Acquisitions: Alice Guy's Faust (1905)
Ivo Blom recently bought this wonderful series of postcards published by Croissant in Paris for the film company Gaumont. The 10 postcards show scenes of the lost French 'phonoscène'Faust by pioneering...
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Gene Autry
Gene Autry (1907-1998) was an American singer, and actor who gained fame as a singing cowboy in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early...
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Anna Karina (1940-2019)
Yesterday, 14 December 2019, the queen of the Nouvelle Vague, film actress, singer and director Anna Karina has passed away. French, but Danish-born Karina was the muse of director Jean-Luc Godard and...
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Carla Candiani
Carla Candiani (1916-2005) was an Italian film actress. Discovered by the Italian public in Raffaello Matarazzo's thriller Albergo degli assenti (1939), she took part in seventeen films during her...
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Vertigine (1919)
Hesperia, Tullio Carminati and Ida Carloni Talli were the stars of the Italian silent drama Vertigine/Vertigo love (Baldassarre Negroni, 1919), produced by Film d'Arte Italiana (FAI). In Spain the film...
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Bryant Washburn
Bryant Washburn (1889–1963) was an American film actor, who appeared in 375 films between 1911 and 1947. From 1911, he was one of the leading actors of the Essanay company and later of Paramount. In...
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Rolf Moebius
Rolf Moebius (1915-2004) was a German actor. He was pre-war star of the Ufa and starred in Propaganda films like Das Gewehr über/Shoulder Arms (1939). Later he became a character actor, who often...
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Alain Barrière (1935-2019)
French singer and songwriter Alain Barrière (1935) passed away on 19 December 2019. He recorded a number of timeless hits in the 1960s which earned their place in French music history. Internationally...
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