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Liberace
American entertainer Liberace (1919-1987) is most remembered for his extravagant costumes and trademark candelabra placed on the lids of his Baldwin piano decorated with small mirrors. Liberace was...
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Burt Reynolds
American film actor Burt Reynolds (1936-2018) became famous for his many roles with a macho appearance. His role in Deliverance (1972) made him a star. The 1970s saw many successes, especially as...
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Play that song again
We like requests. Greg, one of our friends at Flickr, is fascinated by female film stars playing musical instruments and asked us to post some fun postcards of them. We were surprised about what we...
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Art Acord
American silent star Art Acord (1890-1931) was nicknamed "The Cowpuncher King". He was a rodeo champion and as a film star, he was known for such Westerns as The White Horseman (1921), The Set-Up...
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Miguel Bosé
Handsome Spanish singer and actor Miguel Bosé (1956) was a major teen idol in Southern Europe between 1977 and 1982. Later he became popular as a pop singer in Latin America. As an actor, he worked...
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Nelly Cormon
Nelly Cormon (1877-1942) was a French theatre and film actress, who starred in two dozens early silent films for the Film d'Art company. She acted in such historical films as Les Trois Mousquetaires...
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The Da Vinci Code (2002)
The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard, 2006) is the film adaptation of the book of the same name, written by American author Dan Brown. It is the first part of the Robert Langdon film trilogy, but is, in fact,...
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Paola Monti
Paola Monti started her career as a barefoot dancer in the 1900s in Paris. Between late 1912 and late 1914, Monti was the leading actress in some thirty mostly short Italian films. French postcard by...
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Gloria Stuart
American actress Gloria Stuart (1910-2010) played lead roles for director James Whale in The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933). More than sixty years...
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Photo by Witzel
Today, we're at the Verzamelaarsjaarbeurs in Utrecht and will meet Marlene Pilaete there for drinks and stories. For the occasion, this EFSP post contains film star postcards from all our collections...
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Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery (1904-1981) was left penniless at the age of sixteen and became a mechanic's mate on a railway, a deck hand, and finally property man for a touring company, which resulted in a stage...
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Roberto Benigni
Roberto Benigni (1952) is Italy’s most popular film comedian since Totó. He worked with famous directors like Jim Jarmusch, Marco Ferreri, Bernardo Bertolucci, Federico Fellini, Wim Wenders, and Woody...
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Constant Rémy
Constant Rémy (1882-1957) was a French actor and director, who played in 66 films and many stage productions. At Pathé, he acted in around fifteen short films before the First World War, including one...
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Folgore (1919)
Beautiful, Polish-born diva (H)elena Makowska (1893-1964) was the star of the Italian silent drama Folgore/Lightning (Ugo De Simone, 1919). Her co-stars were Angelo Vianello and the Argentine (?) actor...
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Ernst von Klipstein
Ernst von Klipstein (1908-1993) was a rangy, masculine German supporting actor and occasional lead. He performed on stage from 1925. Von Klipstein became a prominent actor during the Nazi era, mainly...
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Drew Barrymore
Since melting audiences' hearts at the tender age of six in Steven Spielberg's beloved Sci-Fi blockbuster, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Drew Barrymore (1975) emerged as one of the most endearing...
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Elaine Stewart
Ravishing redhead Elaine Stewart (1930-2011) was a glamorous American actress and model. During the 1950s, she starred in a dozen films before turning to television. West German postcard by...
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Hilde von Stolz
Hilde von Stolz (1903-1973) was a blonde Austrian leading lady and supporting actress in Ufa films of the 1930s and 1940s. German postcard by Ross-Verlag, Berlin, no. 9103/1, 1935-1936. Photo:...
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Vittorio De Sica
Tonight, EFSP collaborator Ivo Blom will introduce the screening of Vittorio de Sica's classic Sciuscià/Shoeshine (1946) at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Actor and director Vittorio De Sica (1901-1974)...
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William Desmond
William Desmond (1878–1949) was an American actor, who appeared in 205 films between 1915 and 1948. He was nicknamed "The King of the Silent Serials" and acted in numerous Westerns. Swedish postcard by...
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