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Monique Van Vooren (1927-2020)
Yesterday, 28 January 2020, Belgian-born model, singer and actress Monique Van Vooren (1927) passed away. She gained notoriety for her many celebrity appearances on the game and variety show circuit in...
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Hilda Rosch
German actress Hilda Rosch only appeared in eight films between 1928 and 1931. Rosch co-starred in popular silent films with Harry Liedtke and Luciano Albertini, but she was soon forgotten.German...
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16 Misstakes: Who's this Lady?
This month, we had the first Truus, Bob & Jan Too! quiz at Flickr. Our followers could guess who the ladies on 16 postcards were, because all the cards were incorrectly captioned. These vintage...
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Will It Snow in February?
Snowfall can provide a lot of atmosphere for a film. But directors don't want to stand around and wait for the snowflakes. Since the dawn of cinema, filmmakers have been devising new ways to fake it....
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John Wayne
American actor John Wayne (1907-1979) was one of the most popular film stars of the 20th century. He received his first leading film role in The Big Trail (1930). Working with John Ford, he got his...
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Heidemarie Wenzel
German actress Heidemarie Wenzel (1945) became known in DEFA films of the early 1970s, such as Zeit der Störche/Time of the storks (1971) and Nemuritorii (1974). After her move to West-Germany, she...
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Lorena (1918)
Last week, you could read a post here on the French silent film Midinettes (René Hervil, Louis Mercanton, 1917), starring one of our favourite European film stars, Suzanne Grandais. Today another post...
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Lissi Arna
Lissi Arna (1900-1964) was a beautiful, exotic-looking German silent screen actress. She became a star opposite the popular action star Harry Piel, and had a brief Hollywood career. Usually she was...
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Vanni Marcoux
Vanni Marcoux or Vanni-Marcoux (1877–1962) was a French operatic bass-baritone, renown as one of the most memorable singing-actors of the 20th century. Marcoux only acted in three silent films and one...
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Kirk Douglas (1916-2019)
Cleft-chinned and steely-eyed American superstar Kirk Douglas (1916) passed away on 5 February 2020 in Los Angeles, at the age of 103. The legendary actor, producer and director made his film debut in...
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Hanging on the Telephone
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice. The telephone enabled people to talk...
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Geneviève Kervine
French stage actress Geneviève Kervine (1931-1989) appeared in some 30 films during the 1950s and 1960s. Although she was good-looking and chosen as the most promising actress of France in 1955, her...
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Ingeborg Körner
Ingeborg Körner (1929) is a Namibian-born German actress, best known for her parts in such West-German films as Die Rose von Stambul/The Rose of Stamboul (1953), Keine Angst vor großen Tieren/Not...
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Carnavalesca (1918)
Our last three film specials, about the American production The Valentine Girl (J. Searle Dawley, 1917) with Marguerite Clark, the French Midinettes (René Hervil, Louis Mercanton, 1917) and Lorena...
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Jane Russell
American film actress Jane Russell (1921-2011) was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. She became an icon with her first film role in Howard Hughes'The Outlaw (1943). Her...
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Adriana Benetti
Adriana Benetti (1919–2016) was an Italian actress, who peaked in the 1940s and 1950s. She made her film debut under Vittorio De Sica in Teresa Venerdi (1941). Benetti specialised in simple or naive...
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Valentine's Day: Melodie des Herzens (1929)
It's Valentine's Day and we have a film special for everyone who loves romances... The German early sound film Melodie des Herzens/Melody of the Heart (Hanns Schwarz, 1929) which stars the lovely Dita...
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Croissant, Paris
The French editor Croissant in Paris published series of coloured postcards for pre-1910 Pathé Frères films. From circa 1905 on, Croissant also published these postcards series for the other major...
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Alice White
During the late 1920s, sexy and bubbly Alice White (1904-1983) was one of Hollywood's most popular stars who received more than 30,000 fan letters a month. She was Warner Bros' blonde answer to Clara...
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Armand Tallier
Armand Tallier (1887-1958) was a stage and screen actor, who peaked in the silent era. Inspired by theatre director Jacques Copeau, who had opened the alternative Théâtre du Vieux Colombier, and who...
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