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Dean Martin
American actor, singer, and comedian Dean Martin (1917-1995) was one of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century. The charismatic and self-assured Martin was...
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La Collectionneuse: Carmen
'Carmen', a novella written by French writer Prosper Mérimée, was first published in 1845. It tells the story of Don José, a dragoon officer in Sevilla, who lets escape a fiery gypsy called Carmen, who...
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Jacques Perrin
On Thursday 21 April 2022, French actor Jacques Perrin (1941-2022) passed away. Handsome and talented, Perrin started his career as the romantic hero in the films of Italian director Valerio Zurlini....
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VerzamelJaarbeurs 2022: Marlene’s treasures
On Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 April 2022, we could finally attend the VerzamelJaarbeurs again. The Jaarbeurs halls in the city of Utrecht were transformed into the largest collectors' fair in Europe. You...
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Dorrit Weixler
German silent film actress Dorrit Weixler (1892-1916) anticipated such better-known comedy stars of the German cinema as Ossi Oswalda and Anny Ondra. The career of the bright and light comedienne was...
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Fernanda (1917)
Italian film diva Leda Gys (1892-1957) starred in ca. 60 dramas, comedies, action thrillers, and even Westerns of the Italian and Spanish silent cinema. In 1917, she starred in the silent Italian film...
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Janette Scott
Janette Scott (1938) is a retired English actress, who started her career as a child actress at the age of 3. From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, she was a leading lady in British films in which she...
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Norma Shearer
American actress Norma Shearer (1902-1983) was the 'First Lady of MGM'. She often played spunky, sexually liberated ingenues, and was the first person to be nominated five times for an Academy Award...
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Mephisto
Mephisto (also known by the names Mephistopheles, Mephistophilus, Mephistophilis, Mephistopheles, and other variants) is one of the best-known demons in European literary, theatre, and cinema...
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Published by Hercules
The Dutch publisher Hercules from the city of Haarlem issued in the 1960s "real" photocards in the genres film, music, and TV. These are mainly black and white pictures of film stars, who were not...
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Written by William Shakespeare
New series alert! Today we start a series of posts on authors whose oeuvre has often adapted to the screen. More than 420 feature film versions have been produced of William Shakespeare's plays, making...
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Laetitia Casta
French model and actress Laetitia Casta (1978) became a Guess? Girl in 1993 and was a spokesperson for cosmetics company L'Oreal. She has appeared on over 100 covers of such magazines as Cosmopolitan,...
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Giudice e padre (1917)
Ivo Blom acquired an envelope with 15 postcards for the Italian silent film Giudice e padre/Judge and Father (Gian Giorgio Trissino, 1917) starring the now forgotten actor Guido Guiducci. The film was...
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Napoleon
On 5 May 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, the former French ruler who once ruled an empire that stretched across Europe, died as a British prisoner in a surprisingly small bed in exile in a damp and...
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Phyllis Haver
Phyllis Haver (1899-1960) was an American actress of the silent film era. With her curvy figure and blonde hair, she started her career as one of the most popular of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties....
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Georges Vinter
Georges Vinter (1879-1945) was a French silent film actor and director, who worked for Pathé Frères. His most famous role was detective Nick Winter in a series of more than thirty short films.French...
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La Collectionneuse: Mother's Day
Today, on the 8th of May 2022, it’s Mother’s Day in many European countries. Spain and Portugal have already celebrated it on the 1st of May. France will wait until the 29th of May and Luxembourg until...
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Written by Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) was an Italian poet and novelist from the Romantic era. His novel 'I Promessi Sposi' (The Betrothed, 1827) had immense patriotic appeal for Italians of the nationalistic...
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Antonio Banderas
Charismatic Spanish film actor, film director, film producer, and singer Antonio Banderas (1960) began his acting career at age 19 with a series of films by director Pedro Almodóvar. He became an...
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Bomben (1920)
Boyish good-looking Gösta Ekman and Karin Molander were the stars of the Swedish silent comedy Bomben/Sunshine and Shadow (Rune Carlsten, 1920). Skandia Film produced the film and the film was shot in...
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