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Kate Winslet
Vivacious Kate Winslet (1975) is often seen as the best English-speaking film actress of her generation. The English actress and singer was the youngest person to acquire six Academy Award nominations,...
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Pier Angeli
Before she was 20 Pier Angeli (1932-1971) had starred with Vittorio de Sica in two Italian box office hits and was discovered by Hollywood. There she would win a Golden Globe, have an affair with James...
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La Cuccagna (1917)
The Italian diva Hesperia was the star of the silent drama La Cuccagna/The Bonanza (Baldassarre Negroni, 1917). The film was an adaptation of Emile Zola's La curée. Hesperia is Renata/Renée, second...
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Owen Nares
British actor Owen Nares (1888-1943) was the heartthrob actor of his generation, both in films and on stage in the West End. The later 1910s and early 1920s were his golden period and he romanced such...
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Annie van Ees
Dutch stage and film actress Annie van Ees (1893-1970) was famous for her cross dressing role as Boefje (Little Rascal). She played Boefje 1500 times on stage and in 1939 in the film version by Douglas...
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Bud Spencer
Huge Italian actor Bud Spencer (1929) with his trademark black beard was the popular star of many Spaghetti Westerns and low-budget action films of the late 1960s and 1970s. In 18 films he co-starred...
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Klaus Collignon
Germany was a frontrunner of film star postcards in colour. During the 1950s and 1960s, Klaus Collignon was one of the photographers whose colour studio portraits were often used for postcards by such...
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Michèle Alfa
Michèle Alfa (1911-1987) was one of the most beloved stars of the French cinema during the Second World War.French postcard by Greff Editeur, Paris, no. 57. Photo: Studio Harcourt.French postcard by...
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Robert Donat
Graceful and handsome Robert Donat (1905-1958) was the personification of an English gentleman who was neither haughty nor common. That made him something of a novelty in British films of the 1930s....
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La statua di carne (1921)
La statua di carne/The statue of flesh (1921) is a silent Italian film directed by Mario Almirante. The stars are his wife, diva Italia Almirante Manzini and Lido Manetti a.k.a. Arnold Kent. Italia...
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Zanny Petersen
Zanny Petersen (1892-1976) was a Danish stage actress, who also starred in the Danish silent cinema. Between 1912 and 1917, she appeared in 40 films for Nordisk Film.German postcard by Photochemie,...
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Laura Antonelli
Beautiful and sexy Italian film actress Laura Antonelli (1941) appeared in 45 films between 1965 and 1991.Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. C.P.C.S. C. da 43.142.Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl...
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Alma Taylor
Blue-eyed, round-faced Alma Taylor (1895-1974) was a British actress, who peeked in the British silent cinema of the 1910s and 1920s. In 1915 readers of Pictures and Picturegoers voted her most popular...
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Gerard Decaux
Today a post on another forgotten photographer whose pictures are on many film star postcards, Gerard Decaux. This French glamour photographer was very busy during the 1950s and 1960s.Martine Carol....
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Roger Hanin (1925-2015)
Yesterday, French actor and director Roger Hanin passed away, following a respiratory distress. Since 1953, he appeared in more than 100 French and foreign films, often playing tough guys in crime...
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Josette Day
French film actress Josette Day (1914-1978) is best known as Belle in Jran Cocteau's unforgettable classic La belle et la bête/Beauty and the Beast (1946). She started her film career as a child and...
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The German silent film Die Puppe/The Doll (1919) is a charming romantic fantasy directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The splendidly original film is loosely based on the short story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, which...
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Luigi Serventi
Luigi Serventi (1885-1976) was a star of the Italian silent cinema, often cast opposite such divas as Pina Menichelli. After his Italian career he continued to appear in films in Germany and...
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Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) was the first German actress who became successful in Hollywood. Throughout her long career, she constantly re-invented herself. In 1920s Berlin, she started as a cabaret...
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Louis Jourdan (1921-2015)
Last Saturday, dashingly handsome French actor Louis Jourdan died in California, aged 93. Jourdan played lead roles in several Hollywood films in which he often was type casted as the elegant European...
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