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Lya Mara
Lya Mara (1893-1969) was one of the biggest stars of the German silent cinema. Some immensely successful silent operettas presented her the perfect Viennese Girl. Hundreds of postcards and trading...
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Gina Palerme
French actress and singer Gina Palerme (1885-1977) was the toast of the London music halls in the 1910s. In the next decade, she played in numerous French silent films and finished her career in the...
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Meryl Streep
American actress Meryl Streep (1949) is one of the best actresses of her generation, known for her versatility and accents. She has been nominated for the Oscar an astonishing 21 times and has won it...
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New Acquisitions: German collectors cards of the 1950s
Lately, we found these great 'Sammelkarten', collectors cards from West-Germany. There is little information about the publisher or the production dates on the cards, but we guess they were produced in...
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Ginger Rogers
American actress, dancer, and singer Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) made 73 films during her long career. Her RKO musicals with Fred Astaire revolutionised the genre. She won an Oscar for her starring role...
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Rolf Herricht
Rolf Herricht (1927-1981) was one of East Germany's most celebrated comedians. He starred in several popular DEFA comedies during the 1960s and the 1970s.East-German postcard by VEB Progress...
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Abschied (1968)
Abschied/Farewell (Egon Günther, 1968) has a typical sixties subject: the alienation of young people. Unusual is that the film was made in East-Germany by . But typical for this Communist state was...
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Antonio Gandusio
Antonio Gandusio (1873-1951) was one of the most famous comic actors of the twentieth-century theatre. He also had a rich career in the 1930s and 1940s Italian cinema. Gandusio appeared in 34 films...
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Manfred Schnelldorfer
Former German Schlager singer and film actor Manfred Schnelldorfer (1943) started out as a figure skater, who became both World and Olympic champion in 1964.German postcard by ISV, no. K 31. Photo E....
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Dria Paola
Dria Paola (1909-1993) was an Italian film actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Her name is attached to the first Italian sound film La canzone dell’amore (1930) by Gennaro Righelli.Italian postcard by G.B....
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New Acquisitions: Early Pathé Stars
Ivo Blom found this series of French postcards of the 1910s. The publisher is unknown but we guess it was Pathé Frères while all the portrayed actors and actresses worked for Pathé in the 1910s. Most...
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Myrna Loy
Myrna Loy (1905-1993) was an American film, television and stage actress. She was originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, but her career prospects improved...
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Joachim Gottschalk
During the 1930s, German stage and film star Joachim Gottschalk (1904-1941) was a romantic lead in the style of Clark Gable. He starred in a series of films opposite the popular German actress Brigitte...
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Der Cowboy (1918)
Der Cowboy/The Cowboy (1918) is one of the first German wild west films ever. Star and director was Alwin Neuss, who was known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. He was influenced by such American...
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Isa Pola
Photogenetic actress Isa Pola (1909-1984) became during the 1930s and 1940s a true diva of the Italian cinema. She showed her frankness and passion for acting in such films as La canzone dell'amore...
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Dranem
Dranem (1869-1935) was a French comic singer, stage and film actor who was active in variety shows, café-concerts, and in operettas. He already appeared in Pathé film shorts in the early 1900s. The...
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Violet Hopson
Australian-born actress and producer Violet Hopson (1887-1973) was one of the first British film stars. For companies like Hepworth and Broadwest, she starred with Stewart Rome in a string of dramas....
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Vedettes of the Comédie-Française
The French publisher FA (F.A. Christensen) presented in the 1910s a postcard series with the stars of the Comédie-Française. The Comédie-Française is one of the few state theatres in France. Founded in...
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Recently acquired: La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica, Part 1
We found this interesting lot with vintage Spanish cards with pictures of film silent film stars - in purple, pink, blue, brown, and green. Not exactly a common style, now nor then. And all the...
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Colonna Romano
French stage actress (Gabrielle) Colonna Romano (1883-1981) was a pupil of Sarah Bernhardt and a famous tragedienne of the Comédie-Française from 1913 till 1936. She also appeared in Film d'Art shorts...
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