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Ricardo Cortez
Ricardo Cortez (1900-1977) was an American screen actor and director, who peaked in the 1920s as Paramount's romantic lover opposite the big female stars of the decade. In the 1930s he rather played...
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The Dream Lady (1918)
(Carmel Myers and Thomas Holding were the stars in the American romantic comedy The Dream Lady (Elsie Jane Wilson, 1918). The Bluebird Photoplays (Universal) production was based on the novel 'Why...
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Michela Belmonte
Michela Belmonte (1925-1978) was an Italian actress and the younger sister of actress Maria Denis. She was discovered by Roberto Rossellini and appeared as a leading lady in a few films during the...
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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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Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Between 1914 and 1958, Cecil B. DeMille (1881-1959) made 70 silent and sound films. He is a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film...
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David McCallum
British actor David McCallum (1933) is best known for two American TV series. He played U.N.C.L.E. agent Illya Kuryakin in the legendary hit series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964). Nearly 40 years...
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Asta Nielsen by Freddy Wingårdh
In 1915, legendary film star Asta Nielsen met Ferdinand 'Freddy' Wingårdh, during a trip to South America. He was a Swedish fleet lieutenant and the son of a shipbuilder. They soon fell in love,...
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Glenn Ford
Glenn Ford (1916-2006) was a Canadian-American actor whose career lasted more than 50 years. Although he played different types of roles in many film genres, Ford was best known for playing ordinary...
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Tommy Steele
Last Friday, 9 October 2020, British Entertainer Tommy Steele' (1936) received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. The 83-year-old is honoured for services to entertainment and charity....
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The Prison Without Walls (1917)
Jesse L. Lasky produced the silent drama The Prison Without Walls (E. Mason Hopper, 1917), written by Beulah Marie Dix and Robert E. MacAlarney. Stars were Myrtle Stedman and Wallace Reid. The Spanish...
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Erica Beer
Glamorous German actress Erica Beer (1925-2013) was hailed by the German press as a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich. She played seductive vamps in several German and international...
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Directed by Joe May
Austrian film director and producer Joe May (1880-1954) was one of the pioneers of German cinema. In the 1910s, he produced popular series of melodramas starring his wife Mia may and crime films with...
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Hansi Kraus
Polish-born actor Hansi Kraus (1952) or Hans Kraus was as a boy a popular star of the German cinema of the 1960s.German postcard by Franz Josef Rüdel, Filmpostkartenverlag, Hamburg, no. 5132. Photo:...
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Oliver-Film
Today, we have postcards of silent films of the little-known German company Oliver-Film. It was the company of Austrian-born film pioneer David Oliver (1880-1947), who produced over 200 silent films in...
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Rhonda Fleming (1923-2020)
American film and television actress Rhonda Fleming (1923-2020) passed away, last Wednesday. 14 October. The 'Queen of Technicolor' acted in more than forty films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and...
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Aline Carola
Beautiful Aline Carola (1921-1944) was a talented French actress who died at the age of only 23. She played in three films in 1942.French postcard by Editions E.C., Paris, no. 80. Photo: Le...
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Amore rosso (1921)
Italian diva Maria Jacobini was the star of the Italian silent film Amore rosso/Red love (Gennaro Righelli, 1921), based on the novel 'Milotona' by Théophile Gautier, and produced by Fert Film. The...
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Elisa Cegani
Elisa Cegani (1911–1996) was one of the most representative actresses of Italian cinema of the 1930s and 1940s. She was the muse of director Alessandro Blasetti and appeared in almost all his films....
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R.I.P. Irina Skobtseva (1927-2020)
On Sunday 20 October 2020, Russian actress Irina Skobtseva (1927) has died. She was a famous star of the Soviet cinema. She was the second wife of Sergei Bondarchuk and played Helen Kuragina in his...
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Directed by Friedrich Zelnik
Film director, producer, and actor Friedrich Zelnik or Frederic Zelnik (1885-1950) was Austrian, but he directed two of the most popular Dutch films of the 1930s. He was initially an actor, who became...
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