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Lilian Harvey, Part 2
Today we present you the second part of our tribute to Ufa's biggest star of the 1930s: British born actress and singer Lilian Harvey (1906-1968). With Willy Fritsch she formed the 'Dream Team of the...
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Léontine Massart
Léontine Massart (1885-1980) was a French stage and screen actress of Belgian origin. She peaked in French silent film of the early 1910s.French postcard bt Edition Pathé Frères. Photo: X. Muse or...
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Imported from the USA: Gordon Scott
Good-looking and muscular American actor Gordon Scott (1926–2007) is best known as the eleventh Tarzan. He portrayed Tarzan in five films from 1955 to 1960. Then Scott moved to Italy, where he became a...
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Claudio Ermelli
Italian film actor Claudio Ermelli (1892-1964) played bit parts and character roles in more than 115 films, from 1915 to 1962.Italian postcard by ASER, Roma, no. 97. Photo: Pesce. Mad AnimalsClaudio...
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Peter Alexander
Peter Alexander (1926-2011) was an Austrian film actor and schlager- and operetta singer. He became popular in the 1950s and 1960s with his numerous roles in German musical comedies.German postcard by...
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Die Geyer-Wally (1921)
Henny Porten was one of the three brightest female stars of the silent Weimar cinema - the others were Asta Nielsen and Fern Andra. One of her success films was Die Geyer-Wally/Vulture Wally (E.A....
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Max Dearly
Max Dearly (1874-1943) was a French character actor, famous for his parts in French film classics of the 1930s. However, Dearly was above all an excellent actor in vaudeville and revues.French postcard...
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Vladimir Maksimov
Elegant Vladimir Maksimov (1880-1937) was one of the most popular film stars of the Russian empire. After the revolution he became known known for the Soviet films Skorb beskonechnaya/Infinite Sorrow...
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Marjorie Hume
Marjorie Hume (1900-1976) was a prolific and well-known actress in the British cinema of the 1920s, often playing aristocratic roles. She appeared in 40 films between 1917 and 1957.French postcard by...
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Imported from the USA: Jayne Mansfield
Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood's original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her...
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Ressel Orla
Dark-haired and wide-eyed Ressel Orla (1889-1931) was a popular actress of the German silent cinema who peaked in the late 1910s and early 1920s. The now mostly forgotten star appeared in some of the...
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Elina Bystritskaya
Actress Elina Bystritskaya (1928) was one of the most beautiful women of the Soviet cinema. Her most famous role is Aksinya in the epic film version of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel Tikhiy Don/And Quiet...
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Sangue romagnolo (1916)
Sangue romagnolo is one of the stories of Edmondo De Amicis's short stories volume Cuore (Heart, 1886). It was filmed in 1916 by Leopoldo Carlucci for the Turinese company Gloria and a series of...
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Samantha Eggar
Auburn-haired beauty Samantha Eggar (1939) is a gifted English film, television and voice actress. She played in several Hollywood movies, including the acclaimed psychological thriller The Collector...
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Anita Janousková
Hungarian actress Anita Janousková or Anita Janová (1907-1965) was one of the first stars of the Czech cinema. She appeared in more than a dozen Czech silent films during the late 1920s.Czech postcard,...
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Mario Adorf
For over 55 years the Swiss actor Mario Adorf (1930) is a very active star of the European cinema, known for his Mediterranean looks, his dark oily frizzy hair and his imposing figure. He started as a...
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Imported from the USA: Doris Dowling
Doris Dowling (1923-2004) was an American actress who had her breakthrough with Billy Wilder's film The Lost Weekend (1945). Between the late 1940s and early 1950s she acted in a few films in Europe,...
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Lu Synd
German actress Lu Synd (1886-1978) appeared in numerous German silent films between 1916 and 1919. She also produced several films in which she starred.German postcard by Photochemie, Berlin, no. K...
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Rolf Hoppe
Stage and film actor Rolf Hoppe (1930) played villains in many DEFA films, produced in East-Germany.East-German postcard by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, no. 221/69. Photo: publicity still for...
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Das Schicksal der Carola von Geldern (1919)
Today a post on a series of Ross Verlag postcards for the silent salon melodrama Das Schicksal der Carola von Geldern/The destiny of Carola von Geldern (Carl Froehlich, 1919). The young aristocratic...
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