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Orane Demazis
Orane Demazis (1904-1991) was a French actress. She is best remembered for her role as Fanny in the Marseille trilogy by Marcel Pagnol.French postcard by Editions et Publications cinématographiques,...
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Johnny Dorelli
Johnny Dorelli (1937) is an Italian actor, singer, and television host. He had his breakthrough with the classic songs 'Nel blu dipinto di blu' (aka 'Volare') and 'Piove' ('Ciao ciao bambina'). He made...
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Les Alpes rouges (1917)
Pathé Frères produced the silent drama Les Alpes rouges/The Red Alps (1917) by Maurice Challiot. Stars were two singers of the Opéra-Comique, Mary Margay and Louis Azéma. The six Spanish collector...
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Bill Ramsey (1930-2021)
On 2 July 2021, German-American pop and jazz singer and actor Bill Ramsey (1931) passed away. Ramsey is best known for his German-language hits of the 1950s and 1960s. In Germany, he was called ‘the...
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Jurassic Park (1993)
Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993) ranks as one of the most successful Science-Fiction adventure films of all time. The film is based on Michael Crichton's book of the same name and is the first...
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Les Alpes rouges (1917)
Pathé Frères produced the silent drama Les Alpes rouges/The Red Alps (1917) by Maurice Challiot. Stars were two singers of the Opéra-Comique, Mary Margay and Louis Azéma. The six Spanish collector...
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Editions F. Nugeron
French postcard publisher Editions F. Nugeron published no less than 82 series of postcards until 1991 when production ceased. The postcards by François Nugeron are loved by collectors for their...
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Les misérables
Before 'Les Misérables' became "the world's most popular musical", there were several other stage and film adaptations of the famous novel by Victor Hugo. In this post, we will give you an overview of...
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Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) was an elegant, dashing, and athletic American actor who became legendary for his innovative swashbuckling roles in such silent classics as The Three Musketeers (1921),...
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Betty Stockfeld
Betty Stockfeld (1904–1966), her name often misspelled as Stockfield, was an Australian film actress, who appeared mostly in British and French films.British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London,...
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Delenda Carthago! (1914)
Next week, on 21 July 2021, a fragment of the lost film Delenda Carthago! (Tragedia dell'età antica)/The Destruction of Carthage (Luigi Maggi, 1914) will be presented at Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna....
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Colette Brettel
Colette Brettel (1902-1973) was a British silent film actress who moved to Berlin in 1924. There she met her future husband, Ernst Winar, in whose films she often starred. She had a busy film career in...
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Natalie Wood
American actress Natalie Wood (1938-1981) was one of Hollywood's most valuable and wanted actresses in the early 1960s. At 4, she started out as a child actress and at 16, she became a star, when she...
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Encore! Nos artistes dans leur loge
The French postcard series 'Nos artistes dans leur loge' presents sepia pictures of hundreds of French stage and film stars of the 1910s and 1920s in their dressing rooms. A wonderful candid series,...
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Les Misérables (1934)
The legendary Harry Baur played Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernard’s early sound adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel 'Les Misérables', shot in 1933. For six months, shooting took place in Paris and...
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Christoph M. Ohrt
German actor Christoph M. Ohrt (1960) is best known for his roles in popular TV series like HeliCops - Einsatz über Berlin (1998), and Edel & Starck (2002). He also appeared in German and some...
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Quo vadis?
EFSP is back in Bologna, Italy, for Cinema Ritrovato 2021. Finally! Till the end of the festival, our blog posts will be connected to the festival programme. Within 'The Century of Cinema: 1901',...
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Carla Del Poggio
This year's festival poster of Il Cinema Ritrovato graces Jacques Sernas and beautiful Carla del Poggio in Il mulino del Po (1949) by Alberto Lattuada. Festival director Gian Luca Farinelli programmed...
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One hundred years ago: 1921
In 'The Time Machine' section of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival one of the yearly programs is 'One Hundred Years Ago', curated this year by Karl Wratschko and Mariann Lewinsky. They write at the festival...
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Romy, life lived and fiction
EFSP resides in Bologna, Italy, for Il Cinema Ritrovato. For 'the Cinephile's heaven' section, director Volker Schöndorf curated the programme 'Romy, life lived and fiction'. For this post, we selected...
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