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Gianna Maria Canale
We're in Bologna, Italy visiting Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival (28 June - 5 July). One of the sections, we're following is Freda: a Master of Popular Cinema. Director Riccardo Freda (1909-1999)...
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Eduardo De Filippo
We're in Bologna, Italy visiting Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival (28 June - 5 July). One of the sections is 'Italian Episodes 1952-1968. The 1950s and 1960s were the golden age of Italian comedy and...
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Erich von Stroheim
Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival (28 June - 5 July) in Bologna celebrates the 50th anniversary of Österreichisches Filmmuseum with a screening of the silent classic The Merry Widow (Erich von...
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Rosa Porten
Il Cinema Ritrovato 2014 has some interesting side programmes. One of these is focusing on Rosa Porten (1884-1972), the elder and lesser known sister of German silent film star Henny Porten. Both...
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Francesca Bertini
'1914: Cinema of A Hundred Years Ago' is one of the sections of Il Cinema Ritrovato. Tonight, the centennial will be celebrated with an evening screening of the epic Cabiria (Giovanni Pastrone, 1914)...
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The Beatles
Today is the final day of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy. This week, the Piazza Maggiore radiated each night with the light of new restorations. Closing Night is entrusted to the music of The...
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Jan & Kjeld
Jan and Kjeld Wennick were only 14 and 16 years old when they hit it big with their classic song Banjo Boy. In the early 1960s the two brothers from Copenhagen performed their hits in several...
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Jean Servais
Belgian actor Jean Servais (1910-1976) was a leading man of French films of the 1930s. He reverted to melancholy-looking character parts in the 1950s. When he played a tough gang-leader in the...
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Erna Morena
Although her name is now largely forgotten, beautiful Erna Morena (1885-1962) appeared in about 120 films during five decades. She had an enormous career in the German silent cinema of the 1910s and...
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Dalida
Singer and actress Dalida (1933-1987) was born and raised in Egypt, but she lived most of her adult life in France. The former Miss Egypt 1954 received 55 gold records and was the first singer to...
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Jean Daragon
Jean Daragon (1870-1923) was a French stage and screen actor, who was married to actress Marguerite Moreno.French postcard by Editions Cinémagazine, no. 60. Photo: Pathé Consortium Cinema. Publicity...
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Johanna Matz
Austrian actress Johanna Matz (1932) made a blitz career in the 1950s as the natural ‘Wiener Mädel’ (the Viennese Gal). She acted in more than forty films and TV films, but she considered herself...
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Louise Carletti
Beautiful, photogenic actress Louis Carletti (1922-2002) was the young and sweet star of the French cinema of the late 1930s and 1940s.French postcard by Editions E.C., Paris, no. 92. Photo:...
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Gustav 'Bubi' Scholz
Gustav ‘Bubi’ Scholz (1930-2000) was the most prominent German boxer of the post-war period. The southpaw was only a professional boxer, never an amateur. He celebrated his greatest triumphs in the...
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Irene von Meyendorff
Baroness Irene von Meyendorff (1916-2001) never planned to become a film star, but she appeared in more than 40 films. Unexpectedly, the breathtaking beautiful, ice-cold blonde became a star of the Ufa...
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Ada Svedin
German actress Ada Svedin (1894-1975) starred in several silent film operettas, produced and directed by Ludwig Czerny, who also became her husband.Dutch postcard. Photo: publicity still for Die blonde...
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Richard Todd
Richard Todd (1919–2009) was an Irish-born British stage and film actor and soldier. During the 1950s, he was one of Britain's biggest stars at the box office, and also achieved some success in...
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Margareta Pîslaru
Margareta Pîslaru (1943) was one of the most popular Romanian pop singers of the Communistr period. The multitalented artist also works as a composer, lyricist, TV producer, artistic director and she...
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Bill Ramsey
German-American pop and jazz singer and actor Bill Ramsey (1931) is best-known for his German-language hits of the 1950s and 1960s. In Germany he was called ‘the man with the black voice’. Ramsey had...
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Dietmar Schönherr (1926-2014)
Yesterday, Austrian film actor and talk show host Dietmar Schönherr died. Since 1944, Schönherr had appeared in 120 films, often as the athletic and romantic hero. As a voice actor he was the German...
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