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Mae Murray
Tonight is on the programme of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone the rediscovered film Circe the Enchantress (Robert Z. Leonard, 1924) starring the enigmatic Mae Murray. The musical...
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Red Letter
The closing event of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival is a screening of Charles Chaplin's The Pilgrim (1923) and Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. (1924), for which a new orchestral score was created. At...
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Jean Parker
American film and stage actress Jean Parker (1915–2005) landed her first screen test while still in high school. She played the tragic Beth in the original Little Women (1933), starred as the spoiled...
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Elza Temary
Elza Temary (1905-1968) was a Hungarian film actress, who acted in several German silent and early German films. She moved to the USA when Hitler rose to power. German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin,...
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Piper Laurie (1932-2023)
Last Saturday, 15 October 2023, American stage and screen actress Piper Laurie (1932) died in her hometown Los Angeles. She was known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and...
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Quo vadis? (1924-1925)
The third film adaptation of Henryk Sienkiewicz's famous novel 'Quo Vadis?' was the spectacular German-Italian co-production Quo vadis? (Georg Jacoby, Gabriellino D'Annunzio, 1924-1925). Emil Jannings,...
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Joe E. Brown
American comedian Joe E. Brown (1891-1973) is dearly remembered for his portrayal as Osgood Fielding III in Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959), in which he utters the famous punchline "Well,...
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Cleo Moore
American actress Cleo Moore (1924-1973) was a well-known pin-up girl and a platinum blonde bombshell in Hollywood films of the 1950s. She made seven B-films with Hugo Haas. Although she never became a...
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Photo by Natge
Hans Natge was a German photographer who worked for the Ufa in the 1920s and 1930s and made several portraits of the stars of the Weimar cinema. He did still photography for some classic silent films,...
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Diana Ross
Diana Ross (1944) is an American soul singer and film actress who became one of the most successful artists in the world. She rose to fame with The Supremes and then launched a successful solo career....
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Lida Baarova
Beautiful LÃda Baarová (1914-2000) was a glamorous Czech film star who worked in Prague, Berlin and Rome. A dangerous affair with Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister of the Third Reich, first...
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Lloyd Hughes
Clean-cut, sensitive Lloyd Hughes (1897- 1958) was an American actor of both the silent and sound film eras. He appeared in such silent classics as Tess of the Storm Country (1921), The Sea Hawk...
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Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Romeo e Giulietta/Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968) is the most financially successful film adaptation of a Shakespeare play at the time of its release. By writing the play, Shakespeare began...
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Rory Calhoun
Tall and handsome Rory Calhoun (1922-1999) was an American film and TV actor who also worked as a screenwriter, producer and author. He appeared in more than 80 films and more than a thousand episodes...
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Patricia Neal
American actress Patricia Neal (1928-2010) won both an Oscar and a Tony Award. In the first part of her film career, her most impressive roles were in The Fountainhead (1949), opposite Gary Cooper, and...
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John Boles
John Boles (1895-1969) was an American singer and actor best known for playing Victor Moritz in the Horror classic Frankenstein (1931). He started out in Hollywood in silent films but became a huge...
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Nino Castelnuovo
Handsome and athletic Italian actor Nino Castelnovo's (1936-2021) most famous role was as Guy Foucher opposite Catherine Deneuve in the classic French music drama Les parapluies de Cherbourg/The...
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Stanley Baker
Welsh actor and film producer Stanley Baker (1928-1976) started as a tough and gritty villain in the British cinema of the 1950s. Later he became a star as a rugged working class anti-hero in many...
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La Collectionneuse: Grace Moore
Nothing really predestined Grace Moore to become an opera diva and a movie star, as she was born in rural Tennessee in a conservative and religious family. But, by a combination of ambition,...
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Troy (2004)
Troy (2004) is a very expensive American film epic about the Trojan War, based on Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'. The film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates...
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