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Antonio Banderas
Charismatic Spanish film actor, film director, film producer and singer Antonio Banderas (1960) began his acting career at age 19 with a series of films by director Pedro Almodóvar. He became an...
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La course à l'amour (1924)
Today's film special is about a little known French silent film, La course à l'amour/Love on the Run (Paul Barlatier, Charles Keppens, 1924). Les Cinématographes Méric produced a series of postcards...
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Rina De Liguoro
Rina De Liguoro (1892-1966) was the last diva of the Italian silent cinema of the 1920s. She had her breakthrough in 1924 as the sensual, untamed Roman empress Messalina, and the beautiful countess...
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Anita Ekberg (1931-2015)
Swedish (but naturalized Italian) film actress Anita Ekberg has passed away today. As Miss Sweden 1950, she was contracted by Howard Hughes, had a Hollywood career in the 1950s, but got her real...
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Karl Martell
Karl Martell (1906-1966) was an incisive, debonair German supporting actor of the 1930s and 1940s. He often played in authoritarian roles in prestige Ufa productions, including four films with Zarah...
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Atelier Balázs
Today, the subject of our series on film star photographers is Atelier Balázs. This little known Berlin studio was active during the Weimar period. The photographs of Atelier Balázs were often used for...
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Toni van Eyck
German actress Toni van Eyck (1910-1988) became a star playing a rape victim in the Aufklärungsfilm Gefahren der Liebe/Hazards of Love (1931). Despite this film success she stayed primarily a stage...
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Peter Pasetti
Peter Pasetti (1916–1996) was a German stage, television and film actor. The handsome and incisive character actor played a number of leading roles in post-Second World War productions such as the...
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Der brennende Acker (1922)
This week's film special is about the German silent film Der brennende Acker/Burning Soil (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922). Murnau shot this drama right before his vampire classic Nosferatu (1922). Der...
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Cornell Borchers
In 1948 Cornell Borchers (1925-2014) started her film career in the post-war German cinema. She had her international breakthrough with her third film, The Big Lift (1950) starring Montgomery Clift....
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Brian Aherne
British stage and screen actor Brian Aherne (1902-1986) was one of the top character actors of Hollywood in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He was Oscar-nominated for Juarez (1939).British Real Photograph...
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Harry Halm
Charming actor Harry Halm (1901-1980) was a popular ladies’ man of the silent German cinema. Sound film and the rise of the Nazis broke his career.Austrian postcard by Iris Verlag, no. 603. Photo:...
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Aldo Graziati
Today in our series on film star photographers, Aldo Graziati (1905-1953) or simply Aldo. The Italian is known as the cinematographer of some of the classic films by Luchino Visconti. But before that,...
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Ossip Runitsch
Russian actor, producer and stage director Ossip Runitsch (1889-1947) was one of the biggest stars of the Russian silent film and one of the first iconic figures of the early Russian cinema. After the...
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Marcella Albani
Petite Italian actress and author Marcella Albani (1899-1959) appeared in 50 films from 1919 on. She was especially successful as elegant Latin lady in the German silent cinema.German postcard by Ross...
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Die Halbstarken (1956)
Most of the German films of the 1950s were musical comedies, sentimental dramas or Heimatfilms. An exception was the teen drama Die Halbstarken/Teenage Wolfpack (Georg Tressler, 1956) which brought...
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Tullio Carminati
Tullio Carminati (1892-1971) was an Italian stage and film actor with a long standing career from the 1910s to the 1960s. He played in Italian, German, American, British and French films as well as on...
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Noël-Noël
Noël-Noël (1897-1989) was a beloved French character actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 45 films between 1931 and 1966. His talents were diversified and he was known for his strong leftist...
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Margit Nünke
Gorgeous German actress Margit Nünke (1930) started as a fashion model and beauty queen. Between 1957 and 1965 she played in nine films.German postcard by Ufa, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. FK 3615. Photo:...
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G. L. Manuel Frères
Today two French brothers in our series on film star photographers, Henri Manuel (1874-1947) and Gaston Manuel (1880-1967). Between the two World wars, their studio G. L. Manuel Frères portrayed 'tout'...
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