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Ludwig Schmitz
Ludwig Schmitz (1996-1953) was a short, stocky character comedian, who often appeared as comic support in German films of the 1930s. In 1939 and 1940, he and Jupp Hussels impersonated the pair Tran und...
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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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Lizabeth Scott
American film star Lizabeth Scott (1922-2015) starred as the bad girl - or the good girl gone bad - in hard-boiled Film Noirs like The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck, Dead...
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Phoebus-Film
Phoebus-Film or Phoebus Film was a German film production and distribution company based in Berlin and active during the silent era. It was one of the medium-sized firms established during the early...
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Robert Young
Quiet, soft-spoken American actor Robert Young (1907-1998) had some stage experience with the Pasadena Playhouse before entering films in 1931. He played characters who were charming, good-looking -...
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Rita Gam
Glamorous American film and television actress Rita Gam (1927-2016) made a promising debut in the Film Noir The Thief (1952), but her subsequent Hollywood roles were largely unrewarding. She appeared...
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Jane Birkin (1946-2023)
On 16 July 2023, British actress Jane Birkin (1946) was found dead in her Paris home by her personal nurse. In the Swinging Sixties, the shy, awkward-looking Birkin made a huge international splash as...
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New acquisitions from Bologna
One of our favourite postcard sellers is Primo Giroldini from Parma. He is always present at the yearly Book Fair of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna. The most tempting collection of film books, DVDs,...
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Frau im Mond (1929)
Fritz Lang's last silent film Frau im Mond/Woman in the Moon (1929) was one of the first Science Fiction films to dwell upon the possibility of space travel. It followed in the footsteps of his silent...
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Ryan O'Neal
Ryan O'Neal (1941) is an American actor who was one of Hollywood's most successful stars during the 1970s. He is best known to the general public for his role as Rodney Harrington in the soap opera...
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José Ferrer
José Ferrer (1912- 1992) was an American actor and film director, who was born in Puerto Rico. After a highly successful Broadway career, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for...
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Unione Cinematografica Italiana - UCI
In 1919, the producers Barattolo and Fassini of Caesar Film and Cines realised a fusion of most of the existing Italian film companies. The two wanted to secure the Italians a better international...
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Juliette Mayniel
On 21 July 2023, doe-eyed French actress Juliette Mayniel (1936) passed away in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. She appeared in 35 films and TV films between 1958 and 1978. Her film career made a jump...
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Peter O'Toole
Golden-haired, blue-eyed Peter O'Toole (1932-2013) became an international superstar with his unforgettable turn as the British expatriate T.E. Lawrence in David Lean's epic masterpiece Lawrence of...
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The Moon Riders (1920)
The Moonriders (B. Reeves Eason, Theodore Wharton, 1920) is a lost American Western serial, distributed by Universal. The stars were Art Acord and Mildred Moore. The serial counted 18 episodes....
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Das verwunschene Schloß (1918)
During the First World War and the following years, Hella Moja was one of the most popular stars of German silent cinema. There was even a Hella Moja serial and in 1918 she founded her own film...
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Geraldine Brooks
American film, stage and television actress Geraldine Brooks (1925-1977) was a resolute, blue-eyed brunette with attractive, slightly pinched features. She played ingénue roles opposite Barbara...
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The Marx Brothers
The Marx Brothers was the name for a group of American-Jewish comedians from the first half of the 20th century who were actually brothers. Their career started in theatre, but they became world-famous...
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Caricatures by Girus
The Italian artist Giuseppe Russo (1888-1960), better known as Girus, was a caricaturist by passion. His subjects were show business and politics and in the late 1910s and early 1920s he made a series...
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La Collectionneuse: Joan Fontaine
In the second half of the 1930s, Joan Fontaine mostly played nondescript roles on screen and stayed in the shadow of her more famous sister, Olivia de Havilland. Everything changed thanks to Rebecca...
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