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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
The American film Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005) is the third part of the Star Wars saga. George Lucas who directed the film from his own screenplay comes full circle...
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La multi ani!
The Romanian publishing house Casa Filmului Acin used to publish many postcards in black and white and in colour with international stars. In the early 1970s, Acin also made black and white calendar...
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La Collectionneuse: Theda Bara
In 1915, Theda Bara became the first sex symbol in American cinema. She was also responsible for the emergence of the word 'vamp' and the quote "Kiss Me My Fool" in popular culture.American postcard by...
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Happy New Year! Bonne année! Frohes neues Jahr! Buon anno! 新年快乐! С Новым годом!
All the best for 2023! Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!, as we say in Dutch. Thanks for your friendship in 2022. We hope to meet you all here again in 2023! German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 7720/1, 1932-1933....
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Stars who passed away in 2022
On the first day of 2023, EFSP remembers the stars of the international cinema we had to say farewell to in 2022. Thank you, for your films and postcards. We salute you!7 January 2022: Sidney Poitier...
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Dani
French actress and singer Dani (1944-2022) started her career as a mannequin and nightclub singer. She became known for her role as the scriptgirl Lilliane in François Truffaut's La nuit américaine/Day...
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Valentina Thielová
On 15 October 2022, Czech actress Valentina Thielová (1930-2022) died in her hometown Prague of natural causes. She was known for such Czech films as Zizkovská romance/Suburban Romance (1958), Bláznova...
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Diane McBain
On the morning of 21 December 2022, American actress Diane McBain (1941-2022) passed away. As a bouncy, blonde-coiffed Warner Brothers starlet, she reached a brief peak of popularity during the early...
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Lina Millefleurs
Italian vaudeville singer of French origin Lina Millefleurs (?-?) was hired in 1914 by the film company Milano Films and appeared in several silent dramas. In 1921, she finished her film career after...
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James Hall
James Hall (1900-1940) was an American actor of the silent and early talkies era. He was best known for playing the character roles of handsomely rugged good looking men during the late 1920s. Most...
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ASER: 15 rediscovered Italian actresses
Aldo Scarmiglia created popular collector cards and postcards of Italian stars of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Scarmiglia published them under the abbreviation ASER (A. Scarmiglia Edizioni, Roma)....
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ASER: 15 rediscovered Italian actors
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Aldo Scarmiglia published cards of then popular Italian film stars under the abbreviation ASER. For yesterday's post, Ivo Blom selected 15 new finds of ASER cards...
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Franchot Tone
American actor Franchot Tone (1905-1968) broke through on Broadway with his role in 'The Age of Innocence' (1929). In 1932, he moved to Hollywood where he immediately had success in such films as The...
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Jakob Tiedtke
German actor Jakob Tiedtke (1875-1960) transformed from a beloved character actor to a comedy star on stage. From 1906 on, he appeared in many silent films and played in many films by Ernst Lubitsch....
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The Birdcage (1996)
The American comedy The Birdcage (Mike Nichols, 1996) is the American remake of the French-Italian film La Cage aux Folles/Birds of a Feather) (Édouard Molinaro, 1978) which was based on...
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Maximilian Schell
Austrian-born Swiss actor Maximilian Schell (1930-2014) won an Oscar for his role as a defence attorney in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). Many international films and awards would follow. Schell was...
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Lucille Ball
American red-haired actress Lucille Ball (1911-1989) was well-known as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo in the television series I Love Lucy (1951-1957). She appeared in numerous films...
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Three films starring Bruno Kastner: Die goldene Lüge (1919), La bodega de Los...
German actor Bruno Kastner (1890-1932) was the heartthrob of German silent cinema. His parts as the elegant and charming dandy made him one of the most beloved stars of the 1910s and 1920s. In this...
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Hans Jaray
Hans Jaray (1906–1990) was an Austrian actor and playwright who starred as a leading man in a number of 1930s films, such as the Schubert biopic Leise flehen meine Lieder/Gently My Songs Entreat...
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George Sanders
English actor George Sanders (1906-1972) had a career that spanned over 40 years which he divided between the UK and the US. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth, bass voice often led him...
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