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Imported from the USA: Abbe Lane
American Va-va-voom singer Abbe Lane (1932) achieved her greatest success as the vocalist for Xavier Cugat's orchestra, but she also appeared in American and several Italian films. The beautiful,...
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Patricia Roc
Fresh-faced Patricia Roc (1915-2003) was between 1943 and 1953 one of Britain's top 10 box office stars. The elegant, well spoken actress seemed the epitome of the English rose. She had international...
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Raymond Souplex
Raymond Souplex (1901–1972) was a French character actor, scriptwriter and singer. With Jane Sourza he formed a popular comedy duo, although they had their biggest successes on the radio. Souplex...
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Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del Far West (1965)
An early example of the Spaghetti Western is Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west/Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West (Mario Costa, 1964). It was the Western debut of Gordon Scott, former Tarzan and hero...
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Luisa Garella
Italian actress Luisa Garella (1913-?) was a supporting actress of the Italian cinema of the late 1930s and early 1940s. After the war she disappeared.Italian postcard by Aser, no. 151. Photo: Luxardo...
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Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri (1920-1994), was a vivacious, free-spirited Greek actress, singer and politician. She met international success in the films Pote Tin Kyriaki/Never on Sunday (1960), Phaedra (1962),...
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Ludwig Trautmann
German film actor Ludwig Trautmann (1885-1957) was the first German film star. Between 1912 and 1955, he appeared in 69 films, and also wrote, produced and directed several films. In the Nazi period he...
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Imported from the USA: Guy Madison
Handsome American leading man Guy Madison (1922-1996) appeared in 85 films, on radio, and television. In the 1940s, he started as a fresh-faced dreamboat. He became a hero to the Baby Boom generation...
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Gabriella Giorgelli
Beautiful Italian actress Gabriella Giorgelli (1941) appeared in more than 70 films since 1960. She is known for her supporting roles in masterpieces like Mario Monicelli’s I compagni (1963), and...
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Pascal Lamorisse
French child actor Pascal Lamorisse (1950) is known by film lovers all over the world because of his parts in the short films Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage (1953) and Le ballon rouge (1956), both...
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Goldfinger (1964)
Goldfinger (Guy Hamilton, 1964) is the quintessential episode in the James Bond series, filled with thrills, girls and danger. It was the third episode and the third to star suave and ultra-cool Sean...
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Albert Paulig
Albert Paulig (1873-1933) was a popular comedian in the German silent cinema of the 1910s and 1920s.German postcard by Verl. Herm. Leiser, Berlin-Wilm., no. 1746.German postcard by Photochemie, Berlin,...
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Robert Le Vigan
French actor Robert Le Vigan (1900-1972) appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943, almost exclusively in supporting or small roles. The extravagant actor specialized in louche, menacing or...
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Mila Parély
Charismatic, mysterious Mila Parély (1917-2012) was a French actress of Polish ancestry. She was best known for the roles as Geneviève in Renoir's La Règle du jeu (1939) and as Belle's sister in...
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Imported from the USA: Jane Fonda
American actress Jane Fonda (1937) is a two-time Academy Award winner for the crime thriller Klute (1971) and the Vietnam drama Coming Home (1978). Roger Vadim's psychedelic Science Fiction spoof...
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Oleg Yankovsky
Acclaimed Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky (1944-2009) excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals. He is best known in the west for his parts in two of Andrei Tarkovsky's most...
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Geneviève Grad
Blond French actress Geneviève Grad (1944) is best known as the daughter of Louis de Funès in the first three films of the Gendarme of Saint-Tropez series of the 1960s. In the late 1960s she made some...
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Nova Pilbeam (1919-2015)
Today, we read that British film and stage actress Nova Pilbeam died at 17 July. She was a forgotten star with an odd name. As a teenager, she played in two Alfred Hitchcock classics, The Man Who Knew...
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Les trois mousquetaires (1913)
Today's film special is about the two-part film Les trois mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (1913). This early silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas père's' famous novel was directed by Henri Pouctal...
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Luise Ullrich
Austrian actress Luise Ullrich (1910-1985) starred in many German films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. No German star played self-sacrificing womanhood better than the blond actress and her film...
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