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Ice Age - The Meltdown (2006)
The American computer-animated adventure comedy Ice Age: The Meltdown (Carlos Saldanha, 2006) is the sequel to Ice Age (Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha, 2002), both produced by Blue Sky Studios and...
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Sabine Peters
Sabine Peters (1913-1982) was a fresh-faced German theatre and film actress. During the 1930s, she played supporting and occasional leading roles in several mainstream romances and comedies for the...
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Lew Ayres
American actor Lew Ayres (1908-1996) became famous for his leading role as Paul Bäumer in the classic film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). This was followed by a distinguished film and...
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Mary Parker
Despite her English-sounding name, Mary Parker (1902-?) was a Polish actress who was active in the German cinema of the late silent era. German postcard by Verlag Herm. Leiser, Berlin-Wilm., no. 6509....
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Directed by Michael Curtiz
Hungarian-American film director Michael Curtiz (1886-1962) was born Manó Kaminer but was called Mihály Kertész in 1905. After completing his studies, Kertész became a film director and directed more...
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Camilla Horn
Ethereally blonde Camilla Horn (1903-1996) was a German dancer and film star. Her breakthrough role was Gretchen in the silent film classic Faust (1926, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau). She also starred in...
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La Collectionneuse: Actresses as Native Americans
For decades, Native American female characters in films were very often played by non-Indian performers. In the silent days, Mona Darkfeather even became a star through her ability to play such roles....
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Spanish minicards for five early Italian films
Ivo Blom loves to collect vintage minicards from Spain which depict early Italian films. We did already post on minicards of diva films with Francesca Bertini and another with Pina Menichelli. This...
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Renate Mannhardt
Renate Mannhardt (1920-2013) was a German supporting actress of the 1950s. She was known for such films as Peter Lorre's Der Verlorene (1951), Die große Schuld/The great debt (1953) and Roberto...
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Robert Stack
American actor Robert Stack (1919-2003) became a star as Deanne Durbin's young lover in Henry Koster's First love (1939). After the war, he had massive success with Douglas Sirk's drama Written on the...
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Georgius
Georgius (1891-1970), alias George Guibourg, alias Theodore Crapulet, was one of the most popular and versatile performers in Paris for more than 50 years." He was a famous singer and author of songs...
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Directed by Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (1906-2002) was an American filmmaker of Jewish descent. He was a multiple Oscar winner and is considered one of the most important directors in American film history. His oeuvre comprises...
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Béatrice Dalle
Seductive French actress and wild girl Béatrice Dalle (1964) made a big splash with her film debut in 37°2 le matin/Betty Blue (1986). She went on to appear in a series of major roles in French and...
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Lydia Quaranta
Lydia Quaranta (1891-1928) was an actress in the Italian silent cinema, just like her twin sisters, Letizia and Isabella Quaranta. Lydia specialised in lavish epics. Her career reached its apex with...
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Hercules (1997)
Hercules (Ron Clements, John Musker, 1997) is an American animated film by Walt Disney Pictures, and also the 35th Disney classic of Disney animated films. The film's story is loosely based on the...
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Let your hair hang down!
On 20-21 April 2023, Elisa Uffreduzzi (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Université Libre de Bruxelles) organises the workshop 'Dance, Acting, Movement and Gestural Patterns in Silent Cinema'...
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José Mojica
Mexican actor and tenor José Mojica (1896-1974) was briefly slated to become a Ramón Novarro-style Latin lover in early Hollywood sound films. Together with Novarro, Dolores del Río, Tito Guízar, and...
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Ewan McGregor
Scottish actor Ewan McGregor (1971) first received worldwide acclaim with his role as heroin addict Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996). Later, he played the young Obi-Wan in the Star Wars prequel...
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Georges Wague on stage
Georges Wague (1874-1965) was a French mime, teacher and silent film actor who performed in more than forty films between 1907 and 1922. We published before about Wague's films, but this post focuses...
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Eleanor Parker
American actress Eleanor Parker (1922-2013) appeared in some 80 films and television series. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for Caged (1950), Detective Story...
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