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Jim Gérald
Looking at this remarkable pair of glasses, French stage and screen comedian Jim Gérald (1889-1959), not to be confused with his Australian namesake Jim Gerald, may well have been the Elton John of the...
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Günter Lamprecht (1930-2022)
On 4 October, German actor Günter Lamprecht (1930-2022) passed away in Bonn, Germany. He played many complex character roles in theatre, film and television and had his big breakthrough as Franz...
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Hilde Wörner
Hilde Wörner (1895-1963) was a German stage and film actress, who also worked as a filmmaker. She appeared mainly in silent films and had her own series. Her most notable film was Ernst Lubitsch’s Die...
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Angela Lansbury (1925-2022)
On 11 October 2022, British-born character actress and TV star Angela Lansbury (1925) passed away in Los Angeles. The strawberry blonde and blue-eyed worked in the United States since the Second World...
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Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen (1930-1980) was the ultra-cool Hollywood star of the 1960s and is still an icon of our popular culture. In the 1960s, he was the highest-paid actor of his generation, with an average...
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Ralf Wolter (1926-2022)
Yesterday, 14 October 2022, Ralf Wolter (1926) passed away. He was the 'King of the Supporting Parts' in countless German comedies, musicals, and Euro-Westerns. Unforgettable is his performance as Sam...
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Richard Widmark
Slight, blonde Richard Widmark (1914-2008) suddenly established himself as an icon of American cinema with his debut as a giggling psychopath in Kiss of Death (1947). He was one of the most...
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Sonnenstrahl (1933)
German actor Gustav Fröhlich and French actress Annabella were the two stars of Hungarian-born director Pal Féjös's Austrian social drama Sonnnenstrahl/Ray of Sunlight (1933). The alternate-language...
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Demi Moore
Demi Moore (1962) is an American actress and film producer who had her breakthrough with the Bratpack film St. Elmo's Fire (1985). By 1995 Moore was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood thanks to such...
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Lu L'Arronge
Little is known about Lu L'Arronge, who was for a few years a star of the German silent cinema, just after the First World War. The actress, who specialised in playing high-spirited teenagers, had her...
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Anna May Wong on American coin
Anna May Wong (1905-1961) will become the first Asian American to be on U.S. currency. Wong was the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American actress to gain international...
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) had quite a prolific career. He began in the 1930s as a successful film actor for Warner Bros., later became a television star, served as president of the Screen Actors Guild,...
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Written by Selma Lagerlöf
Today, we start a new series of weekly posts on the silent Swedish cinema. Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish writer, who became best known for her children's book 'Nils Holgersson's Wondrous...
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Kay Francis
American stage and film actress Kay Francis (1905-1968) was a tall, attractive, gray-eyed brunette with undeniable style and poise, known for films such as Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932)....
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Soll und Haben (1924)
Soll und Haben/Debit and Credit (Carl Wilhelm, 1924) is a German silent film based on the novel of the same name by Gustav Freytag from 1855. The film had an all-star cast but also had anti-Semitic and...
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24 Film Stars der Welt
We found some small German collector cards in the 'Film Stars der Welt' (Filmstars of the World) series by Greiling-Sammelbilder. During the early 1950s, Greiling-Cigaretten in Lensahn produced two...
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La Collectionneuse: Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead was one of the 20th Century’s most famous American stage stars and became a legend of her own in her time. Many adjectives have been used to describe her: eccentric, carefree,...
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Laurent Terzieff
During the 1960s and 1970s handsome French actor Laurent Terzieff (1935-2010) starred in many films by noted French and Italian directors. The magnetic and politically engaged actor began his film...
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Veronica Lake
During the 1940s, Veronica Lake (1922-1973) was Hollywood's Peek-a-boo Girl. We love her for Sullivan's Travels (1942), I Married a Witch (1942) and for her femme fatale roles opposite Alan Ladd in the...
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Tösen fran Stormyrtorpet (1917)
Victor Sjöström, one of the great pioneers of silent Scandinavian cinema, made several fascinating films in Sweden between 1912 and 1922 when Hollywood devoured him. One of these was Tösen från...
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