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Michel Simon
Swiss actor Michel Simon (1895-1975) was a popular and beloved star of the French cinema and stage. His larger than life personality, impeccable comic timing and great repertoire were seen in more than...
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Het meisje met de blauwe hoed (1934)
Het meisje met de blauwe hoed/The girl with the blue hat (1934) is a Dutch 'army film', directed by Austrian director Rudolf Meinert. Stars are Roland Varno, Truus van Aalten and Lou Bandy. The film is...
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Michel Paje
French singer and songwriter Michel Paje (1945) was one of the yéyé pop stars of the early 1960s. He worked for the cinema as an actor and composer and is now known as a voice actor under his real name...
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Norman Wisdom
English comedian and actor Norman Wisdom (1915–2010) starred in a series of hit comedies between 1953 and 1966. His trademark role was The Gump, in a jacket three sizes too small with tie awry and...
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Dorothea Wieck
Swiss actress Dorothea Wieck (1908-1986) became a major star and a lesbian idol with her role as the adored teacher Fräulein von Bernburg in the German classic Mädchen in Uniform/Girls in Uniform...
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Imported from the USA: Barbara Payton
We continue our weekly series 'Imported from the USA' of posts about Hollywood stars who also worked in the European cinema. Today the very sad tale of blue-eyed, peroxide blonde sexpot Barbara Payton...
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Napoléon 1er (1909)
On 18 June it will be exactly 200 years since the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was finally defeated by the allied British, Prussian, Dutch and Belgian troops near the Belgian village of Waterloo....
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Luisa Rivelli
Sexy film actress Luisa Rivelli (1930) played many secondary roles in the Italian cinema. She appeared in 50 films between 1943 and 1994 and she was also often seen on Italian television.Italian...
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Anna Boleyn (1920)
Anna Boleyn/Anne Boleyn (1920) is one of the silent historical films directed in Germany by the young Ernst Lubitsch. Henny Porten starred as the ill-fated Anne Boleyn and Emil Jannings as King Henry...
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Pierre Brice (1929-2015)
Pierre Brice, the French actor who fascinated millions of European film fans in his role as Apache chief Winnetou, has died. The handsome Brice (1929-2015) was the hero of 11 films based on German...
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Émile Dehelly
French stage and screen actor Émile Dehelly (1871-1969) was a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1903 till 1928 and had a prolific career at Le Film d’Art between 1909 and 1913. He is the father...
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Richard Johnson (1927-2015)
Last Saturday, 6 June 2015, British stage and screen actor and producer Richard Johnson has died, aged 87. He conferred his dark, handsome, saturnine features, assertive jaw, emphatic eyebrows and air...
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Imported from the USA: Mary Nolan a.k.a. Imogene Robertson
We continue our weekly series 'Imported from the USA' of posts about Hollywood stars who also worked in the European cinema. Like last week, today's post is about a beautiful but baaad girl, who loved...
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John Lennon
English musician, singer and songwriter John Lennon (1940-1980) rose to worldwide fame with the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of pop. With Paul McCartney, he formed a...
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Christopher Lee (1922-2015)
Yesterday has been announced that Christopher Lee has died on 7 June 2015. The British film actor is best known as Count Dracula, the bloodsucking vampire. But he created more unforgettable characters...
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L'Ombra (1923)
The Italian silent melodrama L'Ombra/The Shadow (1923) was one of the final Diva films. The starring diva, Italia Almirante (Manzini) was directed by her husband, Mario Almirante. The film, based on a...
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Bibi Johns
Blond Swedish pop singer and actress Bibi Johns (1929) was very popular in Europe and the USA during the 1950s. She appeared in several European musical films. In Germany, where she lived from 1954 on,...
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Ally Kolberg
Actress Ally Kolberg or Ally Kay had a brief career in the German silent cinema. During the late 1910s and early 1920s, she appeared in 16 German films and one Swedish production.German postcard by...
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Henri Vidal
Handsome, robust-looking Henri Vidal (1919-1959) was a wildly popular French leading man who played both heroes and heels opposite incredible beauties, including his wife Michèle Morgan. His thriving...
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Imported from the USA: Anthony Perkins
Tall and slim American actor Anthony 'Tony' Perkins (1932-1992) is best known for his boyish good looks and his nervous, sweet but often unbalanced characters. He often appeared in European films by...
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