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Greetings from Utrecht, Part 3
Last weekend we visited the International Collectors Fair in Utrecht. It was fun! In three posts we share our new acquisitions. Today, the third and final part.German postcard by Ufa. Photo: Vogelmann...
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Jean-Pierre Cassel
Tall, elastic-faced French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel (1932-2007) rode the crest of the Nouvelle Vague, the French New Wave in the early 1960s. The charming and energetic Cassel was being compared to...
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Albrecht Schoenhals
German stage and film actor Albrecht Schoenhals (1888-1978) was predestined by his charming and elegant appearance for high society characters and urbane lovers. In 1942 he refused to play Jud Süss and...
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Krüger
On some vintage postcards from my collection has been shot. Small bullet holes are the evidence. These are all postcards of beautiful women: starlets, actresses, singers, pin-ups. They were published...
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Nadine Tallier
Sexy French actress Nadine Tallier (1932) played various film roles from the late 1940s till the early 1960s. In 1962, she married banker Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild and then retired. Later she became...
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Alexander Moissi
Albanian-Austrian Alexander Moissi (1879-1935) was one of the great European stage actors of the early 20th century. The attractive and charismatic women's idol also appeared in several silent and...
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Quo vadis? (1924-1925)
The German-Italian coproduction Quo vadis? (Georg Jacoby, Gabriellino D'Annunzio, 1924-1925) was the third silent film based on the historical novel of the same name, written by Nobel Prize-winning...
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Sari Maritza
Beautiful, exotic and captivating Sari Maritza (1910-1987) was a British actress in European films of the early 1930s. She also played femme fatales in a few Hollywood films, but retired in...
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Annibale Betrone
Italian actor and stage director Annibale Betrone (1883-1950) was an important figure of the Italian theatre of the first half of the 20th century.Italian postcard, no. 301. Italian postcard, no. 17....
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Asia Argento
Asia Argento (1975) is an Italian actress, singer, model, and director. She is the daughter of Giallo specialist Dario Argento and starred in many of her father’s films. She won several awards and...
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A. Noyer
From the 1910s till after the Second World War, A.N. or A. Noyer was a large French photo studio and postcard publisher. A.N. produced the beautiful series Les Vedettes de Cinema with ca. 1300 star...
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Harry Liedtke
German actor Harry Liedtke (1882-1945) was the charming ladykiller of many early silent classics. Detective serials like Joe Deebs made him one of the first male stars of the German cinema.German...
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Käthe von Nagy
Hungarian actress Käthe von Nagy (1904-1973) started as the ‘Backfish’ of German films of the late 1920s. In the early 1930s she became a fashionable and charming star of the German and French...
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L'arzigogolo (1924)
Today's film special is about the Italian silent film L'arzigogolo/The Court Jester (Mario Almirante, 1924). The successful costume drama starred diva Italia Almirante Manzini, Annibale Betrone and...
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Patachou
On 30 April. French singer and actress Patachou (1918-2015) passed away. She was a mythical icon of the French chanson. With her full voice and typical Parisian accent, Patachou was very popular in...
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Maria Paudler
German actress Maria Paudler (1903-1990) was a popular star of the late silent cinema. She also played the leading role in the first German TV-film.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4179/1,...
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Sepp Rist
Sepp Rist (1900-1980) was a top skier, who was spotted for the Mountain films by Arnold Fanck. Later the Athletic German actor with the typical tanned and weathered face played, hunters, foresters and...
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Neue Photographische Gesellschaft (NPG)
Neue Photographische Gesellschaft (NPG) was the first and for years the world’s biggest factory for real photographic bromide postcards, which were printed ‘by the kilometre’. The founder and driving...
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Senta Söneland
Dark-haired Senta Söneland (1882-1933) was a German comic actress whose peaks in her film career were in the later 1910s and the early 1930s.German postcard no. K 144. Photo: A. Binder, Berlin,...
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Ulrich Thein
German actor, film director and screenwriter Ulrich Thein (1940–1995) appeared in 44 films and television shows between 1952 and 1995. His film Romanze mit Amélie/Romance with Amelie (1982) was entered...
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