Evelyn Laye
Evelyn Laye (1900–1996) was one of England's most popular stars of musical revue and operetta during the 1920s. She did a few screen appearances in both London and Hollywood, including in the classic...
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Martine Carol
One of the French cinema's most beautiful women was Martine Carol (1920–1967). During the early 1950s the French sex symbol was a top box office draw as an elegant blonde seductress in many films. Her...
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Studio Lorelle
Lucien Lorelle (1894-1968) was one of the great photographers of the early twentieth century. In his Studio Lorelle, he portrayed all the great French artists of his time.Brigitte Helm. French postcard...
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Fritz Rasp
German film actor Fritz Rasp (1891–1976) appeared in 104 films between 1916 and 1976. He excelled in dark roles: villains, rapists, traitors. His most notable film parts were Der Schmale (The Thin Man)...
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Vivien Leigh
Extraordinarily beautiful British actress Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) won two Academy Awards for playing ‘Southern belles’: Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar...
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Pero Alexander
German actor Pero Alexander (1921) played in a dozen Heimat films and other light entertainment pictures of the 1950s.German postcard by Kunst und Bild, Berlin, no. T 616. Photo: Berolina / Constantin...
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Heinz Rühmann
Actor, director and producer Heinz Rühmann (1902-1994) was one of Germany's most popular film stars and played in more than 100 films over nearly 70 years. He was a favourite actor of Adolf Hitler and...
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Franca Parisi
Beautiful and elegant Franca Parisi (1933) is an Italian actress who appeared in German and Italian films of the 1950s. During the 1960s she was mainly cast as a sexy but second rate Sophia Loren in...
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Actor and singer Fernandel (1903–1971) was for more than forty years France's top comedy star. He was perhaps best-loved for his portrayal of Don Camillo. His horse-like teeth and shy manner became his...
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Dorothy Wilding
Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976) was a noted English society photographer with studios in London and New York. Wilding photographed many British film stars in the 1920s and 1930s, but was also the first...
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Blanchette Brunoy
French actress Blanchette Brunoy (1915-2005) appeared in over 90 film and television productions between 1936 and 1998. She is possibly best-remembered for her roles in Jean Renoir's La Bête Humaine...
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Tora Teje
Swedish stage actress Tora Teje (1893-1970) starred in several classics of the Scandinavian silent cinema.Swedish postcard by Nordisk Konst, Stockholm, no. 1092/14. Photo: publicity still of Tora Teje...
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Heinz Ohlsen
Blonde German actor Heinz Ohlsen (1922-1999) appeared as a young man in a handful of German films of the early war years. Ten years later he continued his career with a few more film roles.German...
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André Claveau
From the 1940s to the 1960s, André Claveau (1911–2003) was a popular singer and film actor in France. He won the 1958 Eurovision Song Contest with Dors, mon amour (Sleep, My Love).French postcard by...
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Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre (1904–1964) with his trademark large, popped eyes, his toothy grin and his raspy voice was an American actor of Jewish Austro-Hungarian descent. He was an international sensation as the...
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Hannes Stelzer
Austrian actor Hannes Stelzer (1910-1944) was a popular Ufa hero during the Nazi period. He appeared in 18 films, including five for director Karl Ritter. In military service, the Lufwaffe pilot died...
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Becker & Maass
Becker & Maass was a German studio for portrait and fashion photography in the first decades of the 20th Century. They portrayed dozens of German film stars for magazines and postcards.Mia May....
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Franca Bettoia
Italian actress Franca Bettoia (1936) starred in several Italian films of the 1950s and 1960s. She is best known for the chilling sci-fi/horror tale The Last Man on Earth (1964).Italian postcard by...
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Ilona Massey
Statuesque blonde Ilona Massey (1910-1974) was a Hungarian opera singer who appeared in some Austrian films before she was discovered by Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer. MGM billed her as ‘the new...
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Carlo Wieth
Danish actor Carlo Wieth (1885-1943) made his film debut in Ekspeditricen/Salesgirl (August Blom, 1911), in which his wife Clara Wieth plays a salesgirl selling gloves. The scene in which she puts him...
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