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Beata Tyszkiewicz
Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938) is one of Poland’s quintessential film beauties and she is referred to as 'the First lady of the Polish cinema'. Exclusively working for the cinema, she appeared in more than...
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Mrs. Patrick Campbell
British actress Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865-1940) was by far the biggest name on the London stage of the belle époque, famous for her wit, temperament and beauty. She was the original Eliza Dolittle in...
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Jason Connery
British actor Jason Connery (1963) is the son of actors Sean Connery and Diane Cilento. He had his breakthrough role as Robin Hood in the TV series Robin of Sherwood (1986). Since then, Connery...
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Olga Baclanova
Russian actress Olga Baclanova (1896-1974) achieved prominence during the silent film era and was billed as the ‘Russian Tigress’. The statuesque blonde is best known now as the trapeze artist...
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Franciska Gaál
Hungarian cabaret artist and stage actress Franciska Gaál (1904-1973) starred in several European comedies of the 1920s and 1930s. Later she went to Hollywood to star in Cecil B. DeMille's The...
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Elissa Landi
Italian born actress and writer Elissa Landi (1904–1948) was rumoured to be a descendant of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. During the 1920s she appeared in British, French, and German films before...
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Oskar Werner
Talented Austrian actor Oskar Werner (1922-1984) was Jules in François Truffaut’s Nouvelle Vague classic Jules et Jim (1962). He is also known for international films like Ship of Fools (1965), The Spy...
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A donation of rare postcards and other memorabilia
When we returned from our holidays in Italy, there was this little package from East-Hartford, USA, waiting for us at our neighbour's house. It contained rare postcards, photos and a clipping on the...
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Roland Verhavert (1927-2014)
Om Friday 26 July 2014, Belgian film director Roland Verhavert passed away. He directed 44 films between 1955 and 1993. In 1955, he had his breakthrough when he co-directed the film Meeuwen sterven in...
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Marguerite Moreno
Marguerite Moreno (1871-1948) was a famous French stage and screen actress. French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, no. 52. Photo: Pathé Consortium Cinema. Marguerite Moreno as Anne d'Autriche in the...
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Maj-Britt Nilsson
Maj-Britt Nilsson (1924-2006) was the first leading lady of the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. She featured in three of his films of the early 1950s. Her later film work was pale in comparison,...
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Tala Birell
Austrian actress Tala Birell (1907–1958) was a protégé of legendary stage director Max Reinhardt and became popular in his Viennese productions. Universal signed her to star in Hollywood films and the...
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Jean Mounet-Sully
Mounet-Sully (1841-1916) was one of the greatest French theatre actors of the late 19th and early 20th century. He appeared in several short silent films of the Film d'art cinema.French...
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Giulietta Masina
Italian film and stage actress Giulietta Masina (1921-1994) starred in the classics La strada (1954) and Notti di Cabiria (1957), both directed by her husband Federico Fellini and both winners of the...
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Siegfried Breuer jr.
Siegfried Breuer jr. (1930-2004) was an Austrian film actor. He often played the dashing young lover in German films of the 1950s and early 1960s.German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden-Westf., no....
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Laetitia Casta
French model and actress Laetitia Casta (1978) became a Guess? Girl in 1993 and was a spokesperson for cosmetics company L'Oreal. She has appeared on over 100 covers of such magazines as Cosmopolitan,...
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Maria Solveg
German film and screenwriter Maria Solveg or Maria Matray (1907–1993) was a star of the late Weimar cinema. When Hitler came to power, the Jewish actress went in exile and had a new career in the US as...
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Lyudmila Savelyeva
Charming Russian actress Lyudmila Savelyeva (1942) (Russian: Людмила Савельева) is internationally best known for her leading role in the grand epic Voyna i mir/War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk,...
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Frankie Vaughan
British pop singer Frankie Vaughan (1928-1999) issued more than 80 recordings in his lifetime. He was known as ‘Mr. Moonlight’ after one of his early hits and was famous for his fancy tuxedo, top hat...
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Mylène Farmer
Canadian-born French pop superstar Mylène Farmer (1961) is a singer, songwriter, writer, entrepreneur and an occasional film actress. She holds the record for the most number one hits in the French...
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