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Margaret Leighton
Tall, reedy, thin-browed, light-haired Margaret Leighton (1922-1976) was a British award-winning theatre and film actress. She appeared with her future husband Michael Wilding in the Hitchcock film...
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Oscar Beregi, Sr.
Hungarian stage and film actor Oscar Beregi, Sr. (1876-1965) appeared in 27 European and American films between 1916 and 1953. He is best remembered as Dr. Baum in Fritz Lang’s Das Testament des Dr....
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Lio
Belgian-Portuguese singer Lio (1962) had a huge success in 1979 in France and Belgium with her song 'Banana Split'. With more than 1 million singles sold, it became one of the most popular hits in...
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Alien Resurrection (1997)
Alien: Resurrection (1997) is an American Science Fiction film, the third sequel to Alien (1979). 200 years after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone. Along with a...
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Angelina Jolie
American actress Angelina Jolie (1975) won an Oscar, for her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999). She gained international acclaim with her role as video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider...
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Photo by Ghergo
Arturo Ghergo (1901-1959) was one of Italy’s great glamour and fashion photographers between 1930 and 1959. All the people who counted at that time could be found in his photography studio on Rome’s...
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Eva-Maria Hagen (1934-2022)
German actress Eva-Maria Hagen died last Tuesday, 16 August 2022, at 87. From 1957 to 1965 she appeared in some 50 films and TV productions and became known as 'East-Germany’s Brigitte Bardot'. Her...
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Betty Hutton
American actress Betty Hutton (1921-2007) was an energetic, 'blonde bombshell' of the 1940s. She appeared in successful musicals and comedies, including The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), Red, Hot...
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André van Duin
Funny-looking, reddish André van Duin (1947) is a famous comedian and actor in Dutch-speaking countries. He is also a singer, writer, and creator of many popular television programs, and he starred in...
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A Sainted Devil (1924)
Rudolph Valentino's silent drama A Sainted Devil (Joseph Henabery, 1924), produced by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, is now considered a lost film. This post is the second of three specials on films...
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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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Sári Fedák
Hungarian actress and singer Sári Fedák (1879-1955) was one of the most famous prima donnas of her time. The temperamental operetta and film star was mixed up in several scandals.Hungarian postcard....
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Bruce Low
Bruce Low (1913-1990) was a Dutch schlager and gospel singer and actor who had an impressive career in West Germany and Austria.Austrian postcard by Kellner Postkarten, Wien (Vienna), no. 422. Photo:...
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La gola (1918)
Francesca Bertini (1892-1985) was a majestic diva of the Italian silent cinema. She often played the 'femme fatale', with men devouring eyes, glamorous attire, clenched fists, and in opulent settings,...
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Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox (1961) is a Canadian-born actor, best known for his roles as Alex P. Keaton in the TV series Family Ties (1982-1989) and as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy. He also played...
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TV dreamboats of the 1950s and 1960s
Summer is not officially over yet, but we have to return to our jobs or schools, and happily, the new television season is starting again. Of course, many people are watching their favourite series...
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Til Schweiger
Handsome actor, director, and producer Til Schweiger (1963) is one of Germany's most successful filmmakers. Since 1990, no other German actor has drawn more people to the cinemas.German autograph card....
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La Collectionneuse: Jennifer Jones
In the 1940s and 1950s, Jennifer Jones was a name to reckon with. She won the Best Actress Oscar for The Song of Bernadette (1943) and was again nominated in the same category for Love Letters (1945),...
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Directed by Louis Feuillade
Louis Feuillade (1873-1925) was a pioneering French film director best known for his internationally popular film serials Fantômas (1913-1914), Les Vampires (1915-1916) and Judex (1916). His serials...
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Zita Szeleczky
Beautiful Zita Szeleczky (1915-1999) was a Hungarian stage and film actress who peaked in Hungarian cinema and in the late 1930s and early 1940s. From 1936 to 1944 she starred in 26 Hungarian films,...
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