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John Travolta
John Travolta (1954) is an American actor and singer, who rose to fame during the 1970s, when he appeared on the television sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1979), and starred in the box office...
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Turismofoto
Turismofoto is one of the lesser-known Italian editors of 'cartoline'. During the late 1950s, Turismofoto produced more than 100 black & white postcards of Italian film stars and entertainers, with...
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Three early silent films starring Theodor Loos
German stage and screen actor Theodor Loos (1883-1954) is now best-known for his parts in Fritz Lang’s German films. Loos played his first film part already in 1913 and soon followed several more films...
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Cyril Maude
Cyril Maude (1862-1951) was a famous English actor-manager. From 1914 on, he appeared in several British and American films.British postcard, no. 3345. Photo: La Fayette.British postcard by J. Beagles...
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Margarita Terekhova
Margarita Terekhova (1942) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She is internationally best-known for her dual role in Andrei Tarkovsky's film Serkalo/Mirror (1975).Soviet-Russian postcard...
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Elio Steiner
Elio Steiner (1905-1965) was an Italian stage and screen actor, who peaked in the early 1930s in films such as La canzone dell'amore (1930), Corte d'Assise (1930) and Pergolesi (1932).Italian postcard...
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Julius Falkenstein
Julius Falkenstein (1879-1933) was a bald, often monocle-wearing German character actor. He was known for such films as Zopf und Schwert - Eine tolle Prinzessin (1926), Der Meister von Nürnberg (1927)...
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Robert Wagner
American actor Robert Wagner (1930) started his career as a handsome hunk in Hollywood films like A Kiss Before Dying (Gerd Oswald, 1956). In the following decades, he appeared in such box office hits...
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17 New treasures
Today a post with all kinds of postcards I've found and acquired in the last months. Just for the fun of it.French postcard by A.N., Paris, no. 126. From left to right, Albert, François and Paolo...
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Francesca Bertini in La signora delle camelie (1915)
In the mid-1010s, Chocolate Pi in Barcelona released a series of 6 colourful collector cards of the Italian film La signora delle camelie/The Lady of the Camellias (Gustavo Serena, 1915). The drama was...
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Constance Worth
Constance Worth (1892–1973) was a British stage actress who had a short career in European silent cinema between 1919 and 1923. She is not to be confused with her Australian namesake who had a career...
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Elena Solovey
(Y)Elena Solovey (1947) is a Russian-American film and stage actress, internationally best known for her films with director Nikita Mikhalkov during the 1970s and 1980. Later she emigrated to the USA,...
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Erno Crisa
Erno Crisa (1914-1968) was a handsome Italian actor, who appeared in a long series of films during the 1950s and 1960s.Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 1434. Photo: Dott. De Blasi.Italian...
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Charles Morton (1908-1966) was a good-looking and athletic American film and television actor. His film career started as a leading man in the silent era in films by John Ford and Friedrich Wilhelm...
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Michel Strogoff by Albert Bergeret
Around 1900, Jules Verne's 'Michel Strogoff' (Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar) was one of the most popular adventure novels, set in 1860s Imperial Russia. The book, published in 1876, was...
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The Rolling Stones: Charlie Watts (1941-2021)
Last Tuesday, 24 August 2021, Charlie Watts (1941-2021), the drummer for the Rolling Stones, passed away. He was one of the band's longest-serving members, joining in January 1963 and remaining a...
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Keira Knightley
British actress Keira Knightley (1985) has starred in both independent films and big-budget blockbusters and she is particularly noted for her roles in period dramas. In 2006, she was nominated for...
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Ivo's Bologna finds
Another fun post. This time EFSP shows a selection of the postcards that Ivo Blom found at the Il Cinema Ritrovato Book Fair in Bologna, or the 'Mostra mercato dell'editoria cinematografica'. This fair...
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Guess Who
A while ago I bought a large set of small black and white cards with starlets. They must date from the early 1960s. I guess someone took quite bad photos of magazine pictures. According to the seller...
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Dorothy Jordan
Dorothy Jordan (1906-1988) was an American film actress, who emerged as an actress in musicals at the start of the talkies. In 1933, she married film producer Merian C. Cooper and retired.German...
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