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Dina Gralla
Polish-born, German actress Dina Gralla (1905-1994) started as a naive, sexy dancer in German revues. The amiable brunette then was the leading lady in more than 35 silent and early sound films of the...
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Photo by Bernard of Hollywood
Bruno Bernard (1912–1987) fled from Nazi Germany to the USA in the 1930s. As Bernard of Hollywood, he became one of the most popular glamour photographers of Tinseltown. In 1961 he returned to Germany,...
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Renato Salvatori
Thanks to his good looks and impressive physique, Italian actor Renato Salvatori (1933-1988) became a popular star of the European cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. He started as a romantic juvenile actor...
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What letter? THE letter
Long before WhatsApp, before e-mail, even before the telephone, there was... the letter. People wrote them by hand, with ink and in the early days even with a feather. In films, letters were mostly...
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Fay Wray
Canadian-born American actress Fay Wray (1907-2004) attained international recognition as the first 'scream queen' in a series of horror films during the early 1930s. Through an acting career that...
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Hans Mierendorff
Hans Mierendorff (1882-1955) was a German stage and film actor and film director. He became a star as the gentleman-detective Harry Higgs in silent Krimis and also appeared in such classics as Hilde...
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Les Trois Mousquetaires (1921), Part deux
The Pathé serial Les Trois Mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (Henri Diamant Berger, 1921), is one of the great French films of the silent era. The second film adaptation of the famous adventure novel...
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La Jana
Sexy German dancer and film actress La Jana (1905-1940) is a mysterious legend of the German cinema. In the 1940s, she was the most popular showgirl of Berlin and she appeared in 25 European films,...
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Photo by Ernst Sandau
One of the Berlin studios which photographed film stars for the postcards of Ross Verlag was Atelier Sandau. Between 1919 and 1939, Ernst Sandau portrayed many actors in his studio at Unter den Linden,...
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Fred Thomson
Handsome Fred Thomson (1890–1928) was an American silent film cowboy, who rivaled Tom Mix in popularity in the mid-1920s. He was the no. 2 box office star for 1926 and 1927 and played the legendary...
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Recently acquired: La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica, Part 1
We found a series of vintage Spanish cards with pictures of silent film stars - in blue, brown, purple, pink, and green. Not exactly a common style, now nor then. And all the pictures are oval-formed,...
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Recently acquired: La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica, Part 2
Today the second and last part of our post about the postcards published by the Spanish magazine 'La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica'. Yesterday we posted 25 cards, today the second series of 25 plus...
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Mogens Enger
Mogens Enger (1894-1918) was a Danish actor and director in the German silent cinema. In 1918 he died at the age of 24 because of the Spanish flu.German postcard by Photochemie, no. K. 1967. Photo:...
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The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Leonardo DiCaprio played a double role as the title character and the villain in The Man in the Iron Mask (Randall Wallace, 1998). The picture uses characters from Alexandre Dumas's Musketeers novels...
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Andrée Pascal
Andrée Pascal (1892-1982) was a French actress who was highly active in the silent cinema. Pascal did over 30 films for Pathé in the early 1910s but she suddenly stopped her film career after acting in...
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Photo by Zander & Labisch
Zander & Labisch in Berlin was the first German photo studio that, as a photo agency, dealt exclusively with the production of professional press photos and their direct sales. It was founded in...
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Enid Bennett
Enid Bennett (1893-1969) was an Australian-born silent film actress, mostly active in the American cinema. She peaked in the late 1910s and early 1920s with films such as Robin Hood (1922), starring...
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Zizi Jeanmaire (1924-2020)
Glamorous ballet dancer and film star Zizi Jeanmaire (1924) passed away on 17 July 2020 in Tolochenaz, Switzerland. She became famous in the 1950s after playing the title role in the ballet version of...
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Doppelgänger
What happens when you see your doppelganger? Doppelganger, a loan word from German, stands for the perfect replica. In the cinema, the tradition of the doppelganger is long and varied. Occasionally the...
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Ann Sheridan
American actress and singer Ann Sheridan (1915-1967) worked from 1934 in film and later on television. She could both play the girl next door and the tough-as-nails dame. Known as the 'Oomph Girl', she...
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