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An Angel at My Table (1990)
An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990) tells the story of famed New Zealand author Janet Frame. Frame was a brilliant child who, as a shy teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to a...
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Carl Alstrup
Carl Alstrup (1877-1942) was a Danish actor, director, screenwriter, theatre director, and singer. During the silent era, he was a popular comic film actor at Nordisk. He appeared in 22 films between...
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Photo by Vaselli
Together with Aurelio Pesce and Osvaldo Civirani, Arnaldo Vaselli was one of the founders of Italian stills photography. Already at an early stage, in 1928, he started his career, working for various...
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Polin
French comedian Polin (1863-1927) was one of the greatest stars of the café-concerts of Paris. His interpretations were sober and had nuance and finesse, which were rare in the café-concerts at the...
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More postcards of La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica
Last year, we did two posts at EFSP about 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...
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James Stewart
American actor James Stewart (1908-1997) is among the most honored and popular stars in film history. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart had a film career that spanned...
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Thomas Fritsch (1944-2021)
On 21 April 2021, German actor Thomas Fritsch (1944) passed away. The son of ‘Sunny boy’ Willy Fritsch was a teen idol of the early 1960s who made several light entertainment films and recorded popular...
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Mari Törőcsik
At the age of 85, Hungarian actress Mari Törőcsik passed away on 16 April 2021 Ever since her first film appearance, she was the leading star of the Hungarian cinema. The sensitive and intelligent...
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Milva (1939-2021)
Italian singer, stage and film actress and television personality Milva (1939), a.k.a. 'La Rossa' (The Redhead), has died yesterday, 24 April 2021. Milva has triumphed on stages all over the world and...
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Anton Pointner
Anton Pointner (1890-1949), was an Austrian stage and screen actor. In the early 1920s. the athletic Pointner became one of the favourite actors of actress Ellen Richter and also appeared with many...
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Val d'Olivi (1916)
The Italian film studio Ambrosio produced Val d'Olivi/Velley of the Olive Trees (Eleuterio Rodolfi, 1916) to boost the war effort during the First World War. The historical film looked back at the...
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Yvette Mimieux
American actress and writer Yvette Mimieux (1942) is known for The Time Machine (1960), and several other popular films of the 1960s. She was nominated for three Golden Globe awards during her acting...
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Estrellas del cine
'Estrellas del cine' was a Spanish series of 200 postcards with photos of Hollywood film stars, both silent and sound film actors. The series started in the 1920s with two typical early sound stars,...
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Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner (1955) is one of Hollywood's most prominent strong, silent types. He had his breakthrough with his portrayal of Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1987). For several years he was the...
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The Pictures Portrait Gallery: the Men
During the 1910s and 1920s, Pictures Ltd. in London published the Pictures Portrait Gallery series as a supplement for their magazine 'Pictures' which from 1920 on was named 'Pictures for the...
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Sin City (2005)
Sin City (2005), also known as Frank Miller's Sin City, is an American Neo-Noir film produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, with Quentin Tarantino as "special guest director". The...
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Julie Newmar
Voluptuous American actress Julie Newmar (1933) with her seductive deep voice is our all-time favourite Catwoman. She was very busy on television and the stage in the 1960 and 1970s but also appeared...
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Fotocelere
Fotocelere or Compagnia Fotocelere was a photography studio and graphic art and silver bromide photograph printing company in Turin, Italy. It was founded in 1908 by Mariano De Sperati (Desperati) at...
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George O'Brien
American actor George O'Brien (1899-1985) was a muscular, barrel-chested, yet sensitively talented leading man of classic silent films, like John Ford's The Iron Horse (1924) and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise...
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Edith Meller
Edith Meller (1897-1953) was a Hungarian film actress, whose career was in the German silent cinema. She appeared in several films written, directed, and produced by Georg Jacoby, whose first wife she...
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