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Lyudmila Gurchenko
Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935-2011) was a popular Soviet and Russian actress, singer, and entertainer. She became a celebrity after her film debut Karnavalnaya noch/Carnival Night (1956), but her downfall...
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Hilde Wolter
Hilde Wolter (1898-1946) was a German silent film actress, active between 1918 and 1923. She had a short but impressive film career in German cinema.German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin, no. 268/1,...
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Jeanne Valérie
French actress Jeanne Valérie (1941-2020) made her debut in Roger Vadim's Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1959) and went on to star in a string of French, Italian and Spanish films during the 1960s.Spanish...
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La Collectionneuse: Esther Williams
From 1944 to 1954, pretty and athletic Esther Williams (1921-2013) was a top box office star and swam in numerous aqua-musicals. Comedienne Fannie Brice once said of her: "Wet, she’s a star. Dry, she...
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Europe
Little is known about the French postcard publisher Europe. The Europe cards started in the silent period (probably in 1927) and progressed to the late 1930s. However, lower-numbered Europe cards (up...
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Directed by Federico Fellini
EFSP starts a new series of posts on directors with an updated post on the Italian maestro Federico Fellini (1920-1993). Last month, a museum in honour of Fellini was opened in Rimini, the Italian town...
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Carla Gravina
Carla Gravina (1941) is an Italian film, stage, and television actress and politician. She started her film career at the age of 15 and worked with such directors as Luigi Comencini, Duccio Tessari,...
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Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933-2021)
'Bébel' has died today, 6 September 2021, in Paris. Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933-2021) was a big comedy and action star in France from the mid-1960s till the mid-1980s, but he was initially associated with...
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Gilda Langer
Gilda Langer (1896-1920) was a beautiful German stage and film actress whose career began in the mid-1910s and lasted until her death in 1920. She starred as a dark, mysterious leading lady in the...
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Nino Castelnuovo (1936-2021)
On Monday 6 September 2021, handsome and athletic Italian actor Nino Castelnovo passed away. His most famous role was as Guy Foucher opposite Catherine Deneuve in the classic French music drama Les...
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Jane Powell
Jane Powell (1929) was the singing and dancing star of MGM musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. She is best known for her role as Milly in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).Belgian collectors card by...
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Josep Caklovic
in the 1920s, Josep Caklovic was an editor of film postcards in Zagreb, then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Croatia. He published postcards of film stars and scenes for the Yugoslavian film production...
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Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) was a Swedish film writer and director who achieved world fame with such films as Det sjunde inseglet/The Seventh Seal (1957), Smultronstället/Wild Strawberries (1957), the...
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Poul Reumert
Poul Reumert (1883-1968) was a Danish character actor, arguably the most important in 20th century Danish theatre. In the cinema, he made his film debut in Afgrunden/Abyss (Urban Gad) opposite Asta...
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Dobry vojak Svejk (1955)
Because of his brilliant puppet animations, Czech puppeteer and stop-motion film-maker Jiří Trnka (1912-1969) was called ‘the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe’. For Dobry vojak Svejk/The Good Soldier...
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Lena Amsel
Lena Amsel (1898-1929) was a dancer and actress. Between 1917 and 1923, she appeared in several silent German films. She died in a car accident during an impromptu race.German postcard by NPG, no. 976....
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Joan Barry
Joan Barry (1903-1989) was an English stage and film actress, whose career straddled the development of talkies.British postcard in the Cameo Series, London, no. KC05. Photo: Dorothy Wilding.British...
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Jeffrey Hunter
American actor Jeffrey Hunter (1926-1969) was the blue-eyed, and good-looking heartthrob of such Hollywood films as The Searchers (1956) and King of Kings (1961). During the 1960s, he also worked in...
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W.J. Morlins
W.J. Morlins was a German publisher located in Berlin which operated in the early 1920s. Mörlins published autobiographies of the actors Bruno Kastner ('Von mir über mir', 1921) and Hella Moja ('Nie...
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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
EFSP continues its series on directors with a post on the influential Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (Андрей Тарковский, 1932-1986). Director Ingmar Bergman once called Tarkovsky the greatest of...
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