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Gérard Philipe in East Germany
In 1956, the French idol Gérard Philipe worked in socialist East Germany. He starred as the popular jester in Les Aventures de Till L’Espiègle/Die Abenteuer des Till Ulenspiegel/The Adventures of Till...
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Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu (1948) with his trademark bulbous nose is France’s biggest male film star. He developed from France’s young male sensation in 1974 into a bulging and controversial but very talented...
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Three films with Hesperia: Jou-Jou (1916), La donna abbandonata (1917) and La...
Hesperia (1885-1959), was one of the Italian divas of the silent screen. She often worked with director Baldassarre Negroni, who later became her husband. In this post, you'll find three films the...
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Rosa Porten
Rosa Porten (1884-1972) was the elder and lesser-known sister of German silent film star Henny Porten. Both sisters started in 1906 as an actress for the pioneering Messter company and Rosa became one...
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The King and I (1956)
More than your eyes have ever seen... More than your heart has ever known! The King and I was one of the successes of Russian-born United States-based film and stage actor Yul Brynner (1920-1985),...
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Robert Ryan
Distinguished American actor Robert Ryan (1909-1973) was known for his portrayals of hardened cops and ruthless villains. In 1948, he was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in Crossfire...
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Sally O'Neill
Cute and petite American actress Sally O'Neill (1908-1968) acted in almost 50 films between the mid-1920s and the mid-1930s. Her starring role in The Brat, directed by John Ford, was a highlight of her...
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Photo by Haenchen
Karl Ludwig Haenchen (1911-2003) was a German photographer, television producer and pop songwriter and composer. He started as a fashion photographer in the 1930s. Haenchen's photos of German actors...
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Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt (1927-2008) was an American singer, actress, dancer and cabaret star. She was known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of 'C'est Si Bon' and the enduring...
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Ernst Winar
Little-known Dutch actor Ernst Winar (1894-1978) appeared in 34 films between 1916 and 1955, in The Netherlands and Germany. He was also a film director and made 14 films between 1922 and 1955. Later...
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Charles Prince
Charles Prince (1872-1933) or Prince was a French film actor, director and writer of silent slapstick films. In the years before World War I, he was the second most popular film star in the world, just...
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High Society (1956)
The American musical High Society (1956) is a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940) which was based on the 1939 play 'The Philadelphia Story' by Philip Barry. Bing Crosby plays C.K....
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La Collectionneuse: Irene Dunne
The word 'lady' has often been associated with Irene Dunne. She once said about it: "If you mean by 'lady', the feminine counterpart of 'gentleman', anyone would be proud to be called a lady in that...
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Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges (1949) is an American film actor, film producer and country singer and guitarist. He is best known for such films as The Last Picture Show (1971), Tucker (1988), The Fabulous Baker Boys...
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Zorro
In Los Angeles in 1821, Don Diego de la Vega opposes the corrupt tyrants of Spanish California as Zorro, Spanish for 'fox'. The masked swordsman was created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston...
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Claudia Cardinale, Part 2
Italian actress Claudia Cardinale (1938) is one of Europe's iconic and most versatile film stars. The success of her films 8½ (1963) and Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (1963) piqued Hollywood's interest in...
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5 million pageviews for EFSP - Claudia Cardinale
On 11 August 2018, the pageview teller of European Film Star Postcards passed the 5,000,000. We commemorated this milestone with updates of our five most popular posts of all time. Today number 4, the...
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Marisa Allasio
Marisa Allasio (1936) was a glamorous starlet who appeared in nearly twenty pictures in the 1950s. She was nicknamed ‘The Italian Jayne Mansfield’. In 1958 her career stopped abruptly when she married...
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Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Adjani(1955) is a dark-haired beauty with porcelain skin and expressive blue eyes, who has appeared in nearly 50 films since 1970. The French film actress holds the record for most César...
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Aud Egede Nissen
Norwegian film actress Aud Egede Nissen (1893-1974) was a star of the German silent cinema. During the 1910s, she produced dozens of her own films. In the 1930s she returned to Norway, where she...
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