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Lido Manetti a.k.a. Arnold Kent
Italian actor Lido Manetti (1899-1928) had a prolific career as a young leading man in Italian silent cinema. He was brought to America and renamed Arnold Kent, but he died before living up to his...
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Zappy Max
Dynamic Zappy Max (1921-2019) was one of the most popular radio hosts in France and Belgium during the 1950s till the 1970s. He worked for Radio Luxembourg (now RTL) and Radio Monte Carlo (RMC), and...
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New Acquisitions: Kino-Autogrammkarten
Lately, I found this series of German autograph cards on eBay. These 'Autogrammkarten' were published by film magazine Kino in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Four cards were printed on one sheet which...
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A Dog's Life (1918)
The 35 minutes short A Dog's Life (1918) was Charlie Chaplin's first film for First National Films under a $1M contract where Chaplin had full creative control over his films for the first time. His...
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Edoardo Ferravilla
Edoardo Ferravilla (1846-1915) was a comic actor and playwright of the Italian stage and silent screen. He performed in Milanese dialect and became the darling of the Italian public. Between 1913 and...
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Spasimi (1917)
EFSP starts a series of weekly posts on Spanish collectors cards, published by Chocolate manufacturers. Ivo Blom collects these cards, which were all published in the late 1910s. We start the series...
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Katharina Mayberg
German actress Katharina Mayberg (1925–2007) was a popular actress in German and Austrian film productions the 1950s and 1960s.East-German postcard by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, no. 4082/295,...
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Kieron Moore
With his dark good looks and tall figure, Irish actor Kieron Moore (1924-2007) made a name for himself in post-war British films as both heroes and villains. His roles included Count Vronsky opposite...
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Max Pallenberg
Max Pallenberg (1877-1934) was an Austrian singer, actor and comedian. He was one of the most important comedians of his time and often played under the direction of Max Reinhardt. Although Pallenberg...
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New Acquisitions: Nos artistes dans leur loge
In 2012, EFSP had a post on the French postcard series 'Nos artistes dans leur loge'. The series presents dozens of French stage and film stars of the early 1920s in their dressing rooms. Nearly all of...
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Alain Cuny
French actor Alain Cuny (1908-1994) worked in both France and Italy. Among his most notable films are Les Visiteurs du soir (1942), Les Amants/The Lovers (1958), La dolce vita (1960) and Satyricon...
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Linda Cristal
Linda Cristal (1934) is an Argentine-American actress. She appeared in a number of Westerns during the 1950s, before winning a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the comedy The Perfect Furlough...
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The Valentine Girl (1917)
American actress Marguerite Clark played the title role in the Famous Players production The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917). The film was released in Spain as La hija del jugador....
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Klári Tolnay
Klári Tolnay (1914-1998) was one of Hungary's most popular film and theatre stars. In the 1930s she was the glamorous star of many sophisticated comedies. Tolnay received the prestigious Kossuth Prize...
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Margarete Schön
The career of German stage and film actress Margarete Schön (1895-1985) spanned nearly fifty years. She is best known for her role as Kriemhild, the beautiful but revengeful princess of Burgundy in...
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Joseph Schildkraut
Joseph Schildkraut (1896-1964) was an Austrian-American actor. He started his career in the silent German cinema and became a matinee idol in silent Hollywood. Schildkraut won an Oscar for his...
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Silent Italian comedy
Ivo Blom wrote ‘All the Same or Strategies of Difference: Early Italian Comedy in International Perspective’, an article about the silent Italian comedy, published in Italian Silent Cinema. A Reader....
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Stathis Giallelis
Stathis Giallelis(1941) is a Greek actor, who won brief international renown in the early 1960s as the star of Elia Kazan's immigrant epic America America (1963). He appears in nearly every scene of...
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Hesperia
Hesperia (1885-1959), was one of the Italian divas of the silent screen. In her films, she could get into uncontrollable rages but also into wildly merry moods. Hesperia often worked with director...
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Midinettes (1917)
Star of the French silent film Midinettes (René Hervil, Louis Mercanton, 1917) is striking, sophisticated Suzanne Grandais. She was the most beautiful and refined actress of the French silent cinema....
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