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Frank Schöbel
Frank Schöbel (1942) was one of the most successful pop singers in socialist East Germany (GDR) and remained so after the German reunification. He started his career in the GDR as a musician, but also...
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The Middle Ages and cinema
Today, EFSP contributor Ivo Blom will give an online lecture - in Dutch - on the Middle Ages & cinema for the Dutch museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht and its exhibition 'Body Language. Het...
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Berta Nelson
Berta Nelson (?-?) was a Russian opera singer, who from 1913 onward had a career as an actress in Italian silent cinema at Itala Film. She even had her own company Nelson Film.French or Italian...
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Sal Mineo
American actor Sal Mineo (1939-1976) was a teen idol during the late 1950s. He shot to fame as Plato in the classic Rebel Without a Cause (1955) featuring James Dean. Diminutive and sad-eyed, his...
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Nino Besozzi
Nino Besozzi (1901-1971) was a popular Italian comical stage and screen actor. In the early 1930s, he co-starred in several 'Telefoni Bianchi' comedies with Elsa Merlini. He appeared in 54 films...
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Simone Valère
Discretely beautiful and charming Simone Valère (1923-2010) was primarily a famous French stage actress, but she also appeared in more than forty films from 1941 to 1993. She often worked together with...
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
One of our favourite films of the 1990sis the hip and highly stylised British gangster comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Guy Ritchie, 1998). The story revolves around four friends who become...
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Maria von Tasnady
Maria von Tasnady (1911-2001) was a Hungarian singer, stage, and film actress. She started her career as the Hungarian entrant at the 1931 Miss Europe pageant and then appeared in 25 German, Hungarian,...
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Pathé-Natan
The French film company Pathé- Natan was the country’s leading studio during the first half of the 1930s. It was founded by Franco-Romanian film entrepreneur Bernard Natan (1886-1942). In 1929, he...
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Boudewijn de Groot
Dutch singer, songwriter, and actor Boudewijn de Groot (1944) is known as a troubadour with a Dylan-esque impact. In the 1960s and 1970s, he shot to fame in the Netherlands and Belgium with hits like...
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John Payne
American film actor John Payne (1912-1989) is mainly remembered for Film Noirs and 20th Century Fox musicals films. He also starred in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and the Western TV series The...
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Erminio Macario
Erminio Macario (1902-1980), best known as Macario, was an Italian film actor and comedian. His comical style was a mixture between Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers. He appeared in 42 films...
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Mona Maris
Sultry, sleepy-eyed Argentine brunette Mona Maris (1903-1991) appeared in both European and Hollywood silent films. After the arrival of sound, she starred in a string of Spanish-language versions of...
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Comedian Harmonists (1997)
The German-Austrian musical drama Comedian Harmonists/The Harmonists (Joseph Vilsmaier, 1997) chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's most famous a capella group, the Comedian Harmonists, in the...
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Nathalie Delon
Yesterday, 21 January 2021, French actress Nathalie Delon (1941) has passed away. She was a former wife of Alain Delon and the mother of Anthony Delon. Her film debut in the classic thriller Le...
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The early Henny Porten films
Through the years, EFSP has done many posts on Henny Porten (1890-1960) and her many films. Porten made her first film appearance in Meißner Porzellan/The Porcelain of Meissner (1906), a very short...
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Frank Keenan
Frank Keenan (1858–1929) was an American stage and film actor and stage director and manager during the silent-film era. He was among the first stage actors to star in American cinema, was a film actor...
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Donna Reed
Donna Reed (1921-1986) was an American film, television actress, and producer. Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances in more than 40 films. She is well known for her role as Mary...
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Franco Fabrizi
Italian actor Franco Fabrizi (1926-1995) played in about 150 films, usually as the superficial opportunistic sidekick. He made his film debut under Michelangelo Antonioni and became known as a cynical...
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Kathlyn Williams
In February, we will start a new series at EFSP: Before Hollywood. Each Sunday, we will post about the early American cinema, its stars, and studios. Such an early American film actress was Kathlyn...
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