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Laura Nucci
Italian actress Laura Nucci (1913-1994) was one of the stars of the Fascist era. Between 1930 and 1989, she appeared in more than 60 films and TV series.Italian postcard by Armando Terzoli, Roma, no....
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Marianne Winkelstern
Marianne Winkelstern (1910-1966) became well known as a ballerina in Germany and England. In Germany she also starred in some silent and early sound films.Austrian postcard by Iris-Verlag, no. 5991....
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Coluche
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, popular stand-up comedian Coluche (1944-1986) was the number one film comedian of France. He was famous for his bawdy humour and ironic attitude towards politics...
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Maria Holst
Austrian actress Maria Holst (1917-1980) appeared in many stage plays of the famous Viennese Burgtheater and also in several popular films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She died tragically.German...
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Carlo Aldini
Carlo Aldini (1894-1961) was an athletic hero of the Italian and German silent cinema. The robust but also gentleman-like Aldini often appeared as Ajax or Achilles in sensational historical...
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La porteuse de pain (1934)
Today's film special is about a little known French drama, La porteuse de pain/The bread peddler (1934), directed by René Sti. Germaine Dermoz plays a woman who is unjustly condemned to hard labour for...
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Inge Meysel
From the early 1960s until her death, Inge Meysel (1910-2004) was one of Germany's most popular actresses. She had a successful stage career and played more than 100 roles in films and on television....
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Jack Buchanan
Tall and slim actor and singer Jack Buchanan (1891–1957) was known for three decades as the embodiment of the quintessential Englishman, despite being a Scot. During his career, he was one of the major...
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Trude Berliner
German actress Trude Berliner (1903-1977) was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 6483/2,...
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Cecyl Tryan
French-born actress Cecyl Tryan (1897-?) had a prolific career in Italian silent cinema, from 1913 until the late 1920s, first at Cines, later also at companies like Gladiator Film and Fert.Italian...
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Nils Asther
Good looking Swedish actor Nils Asther (1897-1981) was an intense star of the silent European cinema. He was labelled ‘the male Greta Garbo’. In Hollywood he played the leading man to divas like Pola...
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Alice Hechy
German actress and singer Alice Hechy (1893-1973) appeared in some 30 films during the silent and early sound era. Later she mainly appeared on stage and for the radio.German postcard by Photochemie,...
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Der letzte Walzer (1927)
This week's film special is about that typical German phenomenon, a silent film musical. The Ufa production Der letzte Walzer/The Last Waltz (Arthur Robison, 1927) was a successful example. The stars...
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Eva Bartok
Beautiful Hungarian Eva Bartok (1926-1998) was a glamorous but talented actress whose roots were in classical theatre. During the 1950s she had a prolific film career in both the British and the German...
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André Roanne
André Roanne (1896-1959) had a long standing career in French cinema of more than 90 films. He started as a kid actor in short silent films in 1914, and ended with the part of the commissioner in Henri...
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Suzy Carrier
French actress Suzy Carrier (1922-1999) was a pretty ingénue who appeared in several comedies and crime dramas of the 1940s and early 1950s.French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 40. Photo:...
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Lambert Wilson
Talented and lanky but handsome French actor Lambert Wilson (1958) worked with many of Europes most prestigious auteur directors, including Alain Resnais, Luigi Comencini, Claude Chabrol, Peter...
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Ina Bauer
On 13 December, German competitive figure skater Ina Bauer (1941-2014) died. She won three consecutive West German national titles, in 1957, 1958 and 1959. 'Brigitte Bardot on ice' also starred in two...
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Virna Lisi (1936-2014)
On 17 December 2014, Virna Lisi passed away at the age of 78. The seductive Italian actress appeared in more than 100 film and TV productions and is internationally best known as a tempting blue-eyed...
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La canzone dell’amore (1930)
This week's film special is about the first Italian sound film, La canzone dell’amore/The Song of Love (1930) directed by Gennaro Righelli. Lead actors of this popular sob story were Dria Paola, Elio...
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