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Lori Nelson (1933-2020)
Last Sunday, 23 August 2020, beautiful blonde American actress and former model Lori Nelson (1933) passed away. She started acting at the age of 2 and was Miss Encino at age 17. Nelson played the lead...
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Photo by Atelier Bieber
Atelier Bieber was one of Germany's oldest photo studios. The studio was founded in 1853 by a Jewish woman, Emilie Bieber, one of the first German photographers. Originally, the studio was located in...
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Alf Blütecher
Alf Blütecher (1880-1959) was a Norwegian actor who acted in more than 80 silent films. He first worked for the Danish company Nordisk between 1914 and 1919, under the direction of e.g. Holger-Maden...
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The World of Rizzoli, Part 2: 1937
Between 1936 and 1943, Rizzoli & C. in Milan was one of the most prominent publishers of film star postcards in Italy. Through the years, Ivo Blom collected many of the wonderful Rizzoli cards with...
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Lupe Velez
Happy birthday, Ivo!Lupe Velez (1908-1944), was one of the first Mexican actresses to succeed in Hollywood. Her nicknames were 'The Mexican Spitfire' and 'Hot Pepper'. She was the leading lady in such...
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Victor Janson
Victor Janson aka Viktor Janson (1884-1960) was a German actor and director. He appeared in many of the early German Ernst Lubitsch comedies. During his long career, Janson played in almost 140 silent...
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)
Alice Terry and Lewis Stone were the stars of Rex Ingram's classic silent Swashbuckler The Prisoner of Zenda (1922). It is an adaptation of Anthony Hope's popular 1894 novel 'The Prisoner of Zenda' and...
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Grazia del Rio
Little is known about the personal life of Italian actress and singer Grazia Del Rio, but probably because of her singing voice and clear vocals she had a prolific career in the earliest years of sound...
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Photo by Evans
Nelson Evans (1889-1922), who signed as "Evans, L.A.", was a photographer during the days of early Hollywood. Evans was known for his portraits of film actors such as Mary Pickford, Marie Prevost,...
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Karin Heske
Karin Heske (1939) was a German starlet of the 1960s and early 1970s. The blonde appeared in leading and bit roles in two dozens of cheesy comedies, Eurowesterns and "braindead" soft-sex films.German...
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The World of Rizzoli, Part 3: 1938
The Milanese company Rizzoli & C. in Milan was one of the most prominent publishers of film star postcards in Italy between 1936 and 1942. Through the years, Ivo Blom collected many of the...
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Fannie Ward
Fannie Ward, a.k.a. Fanny Ward (1871–1952) was a star of light comedies on Broadway and in vaudeville. Internationally famous, she was at the height of her career in the first decade of the 20th...
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Christa Tordy
German film actress Christa Tordy (1904-1945) was discovered while visiting her cousin Mady Christians in Berlin. In the late 1920s, she briefly became a leading star of the German silent cinema before...
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Il Gattopardo (1963)
Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (1963) is based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's 1958 bestseller 'Il Gattopardo' about an aristocratic Sicilian family's adjustment to a changing way of...
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Irasema Dilian
Irasema Dilián or Eva Dilian (1924-1996), was a Polish-born, Italian actress. She had her breakthrough in Vittorio de Sica's Maddalena... zero in condotta/Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940), and became...
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Directed by Karel Lamač
Karel Lamač (1897-1952), aka Karl Lamac, Carl Lamac, and Carl Lamač, was a Czech actor and filmmaker who directed more than 100 films in Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, and...
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R.I.P.: Diana Rigg (1938-2020)
Yesterday, 10 September 2020, Dame Diana Rigg (1938) has passed away. The English actress was well known as Emma Peel in the classic TV series The Avengers (1965-1968), and later as Lady Olenna Tyrell...
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The World of Rizzoli, Part 4: 1939
The Milanese company Rizzoli & C. in Milan was one of the most prominent publishers of film star postcards in Italy between 1936 and 1942. Through the years, Ivo Blom collected many of the...
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Betty Blythe
American silent film actress Betty Blythe (1893-1972) was a brunette, buxom matinee idol. She capitalised on the 'roaring 1920s' infatuation with exotic screen sirens to achieve a brief period of...
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Oliver Reed
Brooding macho Oliver Reed (1938-1999) was one of England's darker leading men and villainous character actors. He juggled over 60 film roles in 40 years and a full-blooded social life of women, booze,...
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