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Ludmila Tchérina
Beautiful Ludmila Tchérina (1924-2004) was a legendary prima ballerina, who was also an internationally famous actress, artist and sculptor. She starred in several films, including a quartet by British...
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Luciano Albertini
Muscular Italian actor Luciano Albertini (1882-1945) was one of the most famous strongmen and daredevils of the silent cinema. The former circus artist first worked as an actor and producer for the...
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Enrico Macias
French Pied Noir singer Enrico Macias (1938) is one of the pioneers of mixed music. From the early 1960s to the present, he toured extensively through the world and always sought to convey his ideas of...
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Jacqueline Sassard
Charming and beautiful Jacqueline Sassard (1940) had a short but successful career in the European cinema of the late 1950s and 1960s.German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/112. Photo: Farabola.Taking...
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Wilhelm Dieterle
Wilhelm Dieterle (1893-1972) a.k.a. William Dieterle was a German actor and director who started out in Weimar cinema, before becoming a well-known Hollywood director.Austrian postcard by Iris-Verlag,...
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Valerie Boothby
German actress Valerie Boothby (1904-1982) was a popular star of the Weimar cinema in the late 1920s and early 1930s. She often played flappers and femme fatales.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no....
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Metropolis (1927)
Today's film special is on the German expressionist film Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927). A few years ago, my son and I saw a screening in the Castro theatre in San Francisco of a newly restored version...
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Rare postcards from the Cinema of the Russian Empire
Yesterday, collector Didier Hanson sent me these scans of Russian film postcards from the pre-Soviet era. I liked them so much that I wanted to present them today to you. So, here are incredibly rare...
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Cécile Sorel
Legendary actress Cécile Sorel (1873-1966) was the ‘queen of the French stage’ during the Belle Époque, the period between the Paris Exposition of 1900 and the First World War. Her public appearances,...
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Alice Field
French actress Alice Field (1903-1969) started out in the silent film era. Her career got on steam in the 1930s, when she starred in several French language versions of German film classics.French...
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Jean Sorel
With his dreamy features and glossy, immovable hair, Jean Sorel (1934) was one of the most handsome leading men of the European cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked in the French, Italian and later...
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Marie Dubois (1937-2014)
Blonde French actress Marie Dubois died today near Pau in the South of France. She appeared in several classics of the Nouvelle Vague, like Tirez sur le pianist (François Truffaut, 1960), Une femme est...
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Jan Kiepura
Polish actor and singer Jan Kiepura (1902-1966) was one of the grand tenors of the 20th century. With his handsome smile he also became a popular star of the early German sound film. Solo and together...
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Käthe Haack
Käthe Haack (1897-1986) was an extremely versatile German actress. Between 1915 and 1980 she portrayed a wide range of characters in some 230 films and television productions, often to rave...
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Le Bossu (1925)
Today's film special is about Le Bossu/The Hunchback (1925), a French 'swashbuckler' directed by Jean Kemm. This silent film was the third of at least twelve screen adaptations of the popular novel Le...
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Peppino De Filippo
Italian comic actor Peppino De Filippo (1903-1980) was a star of theatre, television and cinema in his country. He started his career on stage with his brother Eduardo and their sister Titina. In the...
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Winnie Markus
Blonde, high-cheek-boned Winnie Markus (1921-2002) started as an Ufa star during the Nazi period. In the 1950s, the sporty-elegant actress became one of Germany’s most famous and beloved film...
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Bob Asklöf
Handsome Swedish singer, actor and model Bob Asklöf (1942-2011) was a yé-yé idol in France during the early 1960s. He also worked as an actor for film, stage and TV and in the 1970s he appeared nude in...
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Félix Marten
Félix Marten (1919-1992) was a French actor, director and singer. He was well-known in France for his many record albums as well as for his film career. French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no....
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Ruth Leuwerik
German box office queen Ruth Leuwerik (1924) played Maria in the original version of The Sound of Music, Die Trapp-Familie (1956). In the 1950s, she and co-star O.W. Fischer were Germany's favourite...
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