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Jean Dehelly
Jean Dehelly (1896-1964) was a French film actor, who was active in French cinema of the 1920s and early 1930s. Handsome, slender and always well-dressed, Dehelly was the perfect representation of the...
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Early Pathé Frères: Le chat botté (1908)
During the 1900s, the French company Pathé Frères was famous for its coloured-in adaptations of fairytales, mainly from the French writer Charles Perrault: Le chat botté/Puss in Boots, La belle au bois...
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La Collectionneuse: Nita Naldi
With her exotic looks, Nita Naldi was one of the most famous Hollywood vamps of the 1920s. She notably co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in three movies. Interestingly enough, she also had a leading...
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Varischi & Artico
In 1900, Italian photographers Arturo Varischi and Giovanni Artico assumed ownership of the L. Ricci portrait studio where they had both trained as employees. Varischi & Artico gained a reputation...
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Fräulein Else (1929)
Fräulein Else/Miss Else (1929) was Elisabeth Bergner's last silent film. It was based on Arthur Schnitzler's novella of the same name. German postcard by Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm, no. 6656....
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Chubby Checker
American singer-songwriter Chubby Checker (1941) popularised the dance style Twist, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard's R & B hit 'The Twist'. In September 2008, 'The Twist' topped...
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Josephine Dunn
Josephine Dunn (1906-1983) was an American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s. Dutch postcard by J.S.A. (J. Sleding, Amsterdam, no. 128. Photo: Ruth Harriet Louise, 1929 / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Italian...
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Ella Raines
Ella Raines (1920-1988) was an American film and television actress with green eyes and high cheekbones. She appeared in many A-pictures very quickly. She starred in four classic Film Noirs directed by...
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Early Pathé Frères: La belle aux bois dormant (1902)
The Pathé Frères short La belle au bois dormant/The Sleeping Beauty (Lucien Nonguet, Ferdinand Zecca, 1902) was based on the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault and is probably the oldest film...
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Imported from the USA: Yvonne De Carlo
Dark-haired Hollywood beauty Yvonne De Carlo (1922–2007) was a Canadian American actress, singer, and dancer whose career in film, television, and musical theatre spanned six decades. From the 1950s...
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Leontine Kühnberg
Leontine Kühnberg (1889-1945?) was a German theatre and silent film actress. For a time she belonged to the ensemble of Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater. Shortly before the outbreak of the First World...
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Saracinesca (1921)
Italian actress, screenwriter, director and producer Elena Sangro (1896-1969) was one of the stars of the Italian period piece Saracinesca (Gaston Ravel, 1921), also starring Carlo Gualandri. The film...
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Glenda Jackson
Yesterday, 15 June 2023, British actress and politician Glenda Jackson (1936) passed away. She was one of the leading British actresses of the 1960s and 1970s. As a major film star, she won many...
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Janet Leigh
American actress Janet Leigh (1927-2004) starred in more than 50 films, but will always be remembered for the 45 minutes that she was on the screen in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Her shower scene...
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José Campos
Spanish actor and writer José Campos (1936-2010) was promoted as the Spanish James Dean. He was known for such films as La cripta e l'incubo/Crypt of the Vampire (1964), the historical TV series Diego...
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Continental Films
Continental Films, known as Continental, was a German-controlled French film production company, based in Paris, but with its finances, production and distribution tightly integrated with the German...
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Errol Flynn
Australian-born actor Errol Flynn (1909-1959) achieved fame in Hollywood with his suave, debonair, devil-may-care attitude. He was known for his romantic Swashbuckler roles in films like Captain Blood...
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The Broken Coin (1915)
The Broken Coin (1915) was a popular serial with 22 episodes, directed by Francis Ford and produced by Universal Film Manufacturing. Francis Ford himself, Grace Cunard and Austro-American actor Eddie...
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Verdun, visions d'histoire (1928)
The French silent film Verdun, visions d'histoire/Verdun, Visions of History (Léon Poirier, 1928) is a dramatised account of the battle of Verdun (1916), a key World War I battle. French troops,...
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Imported from the USA: Mary Nolan a.k.a. Imogene Robertson
Mary Nolan (1902–1948) was a Hollywood star who started her film career in the European cinema. She was a beautiful but ba-a-ad girl, who loved to party. The sexy blonde appeared on stage, on screen,...
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