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J. Farrell MacDonald
J. Farrell MacDonald (1875-1952) was an American film and theatre actor and silent film director. Between 1911 and 1951, the character actor appeared in some 325 films, including 25 productions...
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Who framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988) combines live-action footage with animations by Amblin Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company. The film pays homage to the golden age of American...
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Audrey Tautou
Audrey Tautou (1976) is a French actress known for her gamine beauty and elfin charm. She received critical acclaim for her feature film debut in Vénus beauté (institut)/Venus Beauty Institute (1999),...
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Shirley Anne Field (1938-2023)
British actress Shirley Anne Field (1936-2023) passed away on 10 December 2023. The former Miss London has performed on stage, film and television since 1955. She starred in such classic films as The...
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Photo by Franz Xaver Setzer
Austrian photographer Franz Xaver Setzer was one of the most important photographers of Viennese society in an era full of style and glamour. His studio in Vienna was one of the first addresses for...
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Alexis Smith
Statuesque, smart Canadian-born Alexis Smith (1921-1993), with her blue/green eyes and a seductively husky voice, lent a touch of class to her leading ladies of the 1940s and 1950s. She was paired with...
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Steve Cochran
Husky, darkly handsome Steve Cochran (1917-1965) was an American film, television and stage actor, who often played boxers and gangsters during the 1940s and 1950s. One of his best-known roles is the...
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Guy Marchand (1937-2023)
On 15 December 2023, French actor, singer and musician Guy Marchand (1937-2023) died at the age of 86. He appeared in supporting roles in many comedies, but occasionally also acted in dramas and crime...
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Linda van Dyck (1948-2023)
Dutch stage and film actress Linda van Dyck (1948-2023) passed away on 17 December 2023. She appeared in a dozen Dutch and Belgian films, which were sometimes very successful in the low countries. Van...
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The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Little Mermaid (Ron Clements, John Musker, 1989) was Disney's 28th feature-length animated film. The film is loosely based on the 1837 fairy tale of the same name by Danish author Hans Christian...
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Omar Sharif
Egyptian actor Omar Sharif (1932-2015) is best known for playing Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and the title role in Doctor Zhivago (1965). Sharif appeared in numerous Egyptian films until...
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Christmas with the stars
As every year: Gelukkig kerstfeest! Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noël! Buon Natale! Sretan Božić! Καλά Χριστούγεννα! Boldog karácsonyt! Gleðileg jól! Nollaig Shona! Priecīgus...
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The King of Kings (1927)
American silent epic The King of Kings (1927) was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It was the second in DeMille's biblical trilogy, preceded by The Ten Commandments (1923) and followed by The...
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Verlag Hermann Leiser (1)
Ross Postcards is one of our favourite websites. It is dedicated to the legendary Berlin publishing house Ross Verlag, renowned for the production and distribution throughout Europe of high-quality...
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Verlag Hermann Leiser (2)
Here is our second post about Verlag Hermann Leiser. It's our salute to Jean Ritsema of the Ross website who created an amazing catalogue of the Leiser postcards. The Berlin publishing company...
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Verlag Hermann Leiser (3)
In our third post about Verlag Hermann Leiser, a Berlin publishing house that was active around the 1910s, we focus today on the numbers 4001 - 6000. Jean Ritsma of the website Ross Postcards made a...
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Verlag Hermann Leiser (4)
In our fourth post about Verlag Hermann Leiser, a Berlin publisher that was active in the 1910s, we focus on the numbers 6001 - 8000. Jean Ritsma of Ross Postcards made a catalogue of the Leiser star...
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Verlag Hermann Leiser (5)
In our fifth and last post about Berlin postcard publishing house Verlag Hermann Leiser, we cover the numbers 8001 - 9999. Jean Ritsma of the website Ross Verlag Postcards made an excellent catalogue...
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La Collectionneuse: Couples
Film star postcard publishers always liked to feature couples. They were often co-stars who were not romantically linked. But you also had postcards showing people who were married in real life or who...
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Happy New Year! Bonne année! Frohes neues Jahr! Buon anno! 新年快乐! С Новым годом!
All the best for 2024! Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!, as we say in Dutch. Thanks for your vistis in 2023. We hope to meet you all here again in 2024! French postcard. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (William...
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