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Three silent Swedish films starring Lars Hanson: Ett faerligt frieri (1919),...
Lars Hanson (1886-1965) was the most successful star of the silent Swedish cinema. He was the virile and handsome leading man in several masterpieces by Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller. When both...
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Published by Nieuwe Merksemsche Chocolaterie
Last year, a Dutch film postcard collector asked me if I knew more about the Nieuwe Merksemsche Chocolaterie. I did not, nor did Ivo or Marlene. But I discovered that I had several postcards from this...
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The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Seven Year Itch (1955) is one of the classic romantic comedies starring Marilyn Monroe. Her leading man was Tom Ewell and the film was made by Billy Wilder who four years later directed Marilyn a...
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Jeanne Crain
Charming, youthful and pretty American actress Jeanne Crain (1925-2003) was frequently cast in bright and breezy musicals. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in Pinky (1949), in which...
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Olive Borden
Stunning Olive Borden (1906-1947) was considered one of the most beautiful actresses of the silent era. At 15, she started as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and reached the peak of her career in 1926...
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Fee Malten
Pretty Fee Malten (1911-2005) was a popular German film star in the late 1920s and early 1930s. She portrayed uncomplicated, gay girls in several silent and early sound films until her budding career...
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Margaret Sullavan
Margaret Sullavan (1909-1960) was an American stage and film actress. She made her Broadway debut in 1931 and later returned to Broadway stages again and again. Sullavan is best remembered opposite...
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Herr Arnes pengar (1919)
The Swedish silent masterpiece Herr Arnes pengar/Sir Arne's Treasure (Mauritz Stiller, 1919) is a crime drama based on Selma Lagerlöf’s novel The Treasure. Set on the Swedish coast in the 16th century,...
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Published by Kellner-Fotokarten
The 1950s brought Austria the largest film production boom in its history, but without a neorealist or New Wave school, which had revitalised other European cinemas during this era, and with no...
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Bus Stop (1956)
Bus Stop (Joshua Logan, 1956) marked Marilyn Monroe's return to the screen after a one-year absence. She had been disappointed with the roles she was assigned at 20th Century Fox, so she left Hollywood...
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Stella Harf
Stella Harf (1890-1979) was a German stage and screen actress, who had a career as a leading lady in German silent cinema in the late 1910s and early 1920s. She was married to actor-director-producer...
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Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) was Hollywood's ultimate 'Latin Lover'. The Italian-born American actor starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921),...
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La Collectionneuse: Jean Arthur
Rarely an actress had taken so much time to achieve recognition than Jean Arthur. She made her film debut in 1923 and had to wait for about thirteen years to become a full-fledged star and one of the...
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Alice Field
French actress Alice Field(1903-1969) started out in the silent film era. Her career got on steam in the 1930s when she starred in several French language versions of German film classics.French...
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Randolph Scott
Randolph Scott (1898-1987) was a handsome American leading man who developed into one of Hollywood's greatest and most popular Western stars. From 1950 to 1953, he was among Hollywood's Top 10...
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Gösta Berling Saga (1924)
Gösta Berlings saga/The Atonement of Gösta Berling (Mauritz Stiller, 1924) was an adaptation of the first novel by Selma Lagerlöf. Gösta was portrayed by Lars Hanson and Greta Garbo appears here for...
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Mylène Demongeot (1936-2022)
On 1 December 2022, beautiful and talented Mylène Demongeot (1936) passed away in Paris. In 1957, she became one of the blond sex symbols of the French cinema when she seduced Yves Montand in Les...
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Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
This post is the first of three film specials on the work of Rudolph Valentino. Monsieur Beaucaire (1924) is an American silent romantic historical drama in which Valentino co-starred with Bebe Daniels...
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Lia Formia
Italian actress Lia Formia appeared in 20 silent films between 1918 and 1925. For years she was the leading actress of director Lucio D'Ambra.Italian postcard, no. 226. Collection: Didier...
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Roman Holiday (1953)
Tonight, Ivo Blom, university lecturer Arts & Culture at the Vrije Universiteit and EFSP colloborator, will introduce a screening of Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) at the Rialto VU cinema in...
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