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Anna Fougez
Vaudeville star Anna Fougez (1894-1966) shone on the Italian stage from the First World War to the mid-1920s. Fougez became internationally noted for her performance of the Neapolitan song. The...
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Samson Fainsilber
Handsome Samson Fainsilber (1904-1983) was a French, Romanian-born actor. He appeared in several films of Abel Gance in the 1930s and of Alain Resnais in the 1970s.French postcard by Edition Chantal,...
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Acht Mädels im Boot (1932)
Karin Hardt (1910-1992) is the star of the German drama Acht Mädels im Boot/Eight Girls in a Boat (Erich Waschneck, 1932) as a pure and disarmingly natural backfisch, looking for happiness. The film...
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William Holden
American actor William Holden (1918-1981) was called 'The Golden Boy' thanks to his first starring role as a young man torn between the violin and boxing in Golden Boy (1939). From then on he was...
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Acin's Italian beauties
Casa Filmului Acin (Film House Acin) from communist Romania published hundreds of film star postcards during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Earlier this year, we did two posts on the various black and...
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Photo by Sam Shaw
American photographer Sam Shaw (1912-1999) is internationally recognized for his photographs of films and movie stars, though his interests and talents covered a wide array of subjects. In the early...
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Marie Wilson
American radio, film, and television actress Marie Wilson (1916-1972) was a lovely, innocent-looking, well-endowed comedienne, best remembered as My Friend Irma. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "Wilson was a...
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Juci Labass
This month, EFSP presents a series of posts on stars of the remarkable Hungarian silent cinema. In the 1910s many famous Hollywood names including Michael Curtiz, Alexander Korda and Bela Lugosi...
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Rupert Everett
British actor Rupert Everett (1959) grew up in privileged circumstances, but the wry, sometimes arrogant intellectual was a rebel from the very beginning. He had his breakthrough in Another Country...
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Jack Holt
Jack Holt, originally Charles John Holt Jr. (1888–1951), was an American motion-picture actor in both silent and sound movies, particularly Westerns.British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London,...
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Freddie Bartholomew
English-American Freddie Bartholomew (1924-1992), was one of the most famous child actors in film history. Born in London, he emigrated for the title role of MGM's David Copperfield (1935) to the...
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L'uomo più allegro di Vienna (1925)
Maria Corda, Ruggero Ruggeri and Victor Varconi star in the Italian silent film L'uomo più allegro di Vienna/The Most Cheerful Man in Vienna (1925). Amleto Palermi directed and produced the film with...
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Photo by Larry Shaw
Last week, EFSP did a post on famed photographer Sam Shaw. His son, Larry Shaw (1937-2007), followed in his father's footsteps as a special photographer for the cinema. One of his first assignments was...
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Peggie Castle
Peggie Castle (1927-1973) was an American actress who specialised in playing the 'other woman' rather than the girlfriend. The tall, sultry, green-eyed Castle was Miss Cheesecake in 1949. With her...
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Lili Berky
In our series on the silent Hungarian cinema, EFSP presents Lili Berky (1886–1958), also known as Lilli Berky and Lili Berki. The Hungarian stage and screen actress starred in over 30 Hungarian silent...
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Olivia Newton-John (1948-2022)
On 8 August 2022, British-Australian singer and actress Olivia Newton-John (1948) passed away at the age of 73. She was best known for the musical film Grease (1978). Olivia had been suffering from...
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Alien (1979)
"In space, no one can hear you scream" is the tagline of the Sci-Fi Horror classic Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979). A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a...
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John Garfield
American actor John Garfield (1913-1952) played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters. Garfield is seen as a predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and James...
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Directed by Orson Welles
American actor, director, writer and producer Orson Welles (1915-1985) worked in theatre, radio and film, both in the US and in Europe. He is remembered for his innovative work in all three media, most...
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Photo by Walery
Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg also known as Walery (1863-1929) was a Polish photographer active in London and Paris between 1890 and 1929. After inheriting his father's name and photographic studio...
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