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Charles Vanel
French actor and director Charles Vanel (1892-1989) was a craggy-faced character actor with a rumbling voice and a piercing gaze. In a cinema career of 77 years, this ‘monument of the French cinema’...
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Miguel Bosé
Handsome Spanish singer and actor Miguel Bosé (1956) was a major teen idol in Southern Europe between 1977 and 1982. Later he became popular as a pop singer in Latin America. As an actor he worked with...
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Twelve rare postcards from Didier Hanson's collection
Mail from Spain. Collector Didier Hanson sent us recently acquired and - as always - rare vintage postcards. They show known and less known silent film stars from all over Europe. We will share...
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Imported from the USA: Steve Reeves
Handsome, musclebound Steve Reeves (1926-2000) was an American bodybuilder and actor, who was a huge success in Hercules (1958) and other Peplum films, the Italian sword-and-sandal epics. At the peak...
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Walter Chiari
Good looking Walter Chiari (1924-1991) was a hugely successful Italian stage and screen actor. He appeared opposite Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti's Bellissima (1951) and played countless roles in...
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Nils Poppe
Actor, director and screenwriter Nils Poppe (1908–2000) was often referred to as the Swedish Charlie Chaplin. He is internationally best known for his dramatic part as the jester in Ingmar Bergman's...
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L'Eclisse (1962)
Today opens the exhibition Michelangelo Antonioni – Il maestro del cinema moderno in Eye Film Institute in Amsterdam. Our favourite Antonioni film is L'Eclisse/The Eclipse (1962). Enigmatic Monica...
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Betsy Bell
Beautiful blond and blue-eyed German actress Betsy Bell appeared in Italian action films and Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s and early 1970s.German postcard by Krüger. Sent by mail in the Netherlands...
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Franco Interlenghi RIP (1931-2015)
On 10 September, Italian actor Franco Interlenghi (1930-2015) has passed away. He was a popular leading man during the 1950s and worked with major directors like De Sica, Fellini, Antonioni, Bolognini...
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Our Gang's Jean Darling and Dickie Moore R.I.P.
Recently two of the 'Little Rascals' of the Our Gang comedies have died. On 4 September 2015, Blonde Jean Darling (1922-2015) passed away at 93. She was, along with Baby Peggy, one of the last...
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Twelve more rare postcards from Didier Hanson's collection
Last week, at 8 September, we posted twelve rare, vintage postcards, recently acquired by collector Didier Hanson. We promised you a follow-up while Didier sent us several other interesting scans....
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Imported from the USA: Richard Basehart
American actor Richard Basehart (1914–1984) played leading roles in Fellini’s La Strada (1954) and other European and American films of the 1950s. In the next decade, he starred on TV in the Science...
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Charles Trenet
French singer and songwriter Charles Trenet (1913-2001) was most famous for his recordings from the late 1930s until the mid-1950s, though his career continued through the 1990s. In an era in which it...
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Stefania Sandrelli
Sensual, vivacious and very talented Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli (1946) is famous for her roles in the Commedia all'Italiana. She was 15 years old when she had her breakthrough opposite Marcello...
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Riso amaro/Bitter Rice (1949)
The Italian melodrama Riso amaro/Bitter Rice (1949) was a product of the Neo-Realism movement of the 1940s. The film was written and directed by Giuseppe De Santis and produced by Dino De Laurentiis...
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From Holland with love: twelve postcards with Lien Deyers
Film historian Egbert Barten of the Geoffrey Donaldson Institute brought us newly acquired postcards for EFSP. In yesterday's film special on Riso Amaro/Bitter Rice (1949), some of the postcards were...
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Richard Greene
Darkly handsome British film and television actor Richard Greene (1918-1985) was a matinee idol of the late 1930s who appeared in more than 40 films. He was perhaps best known for the lead role in the...
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Brigitte Fossey
French actress Brigitte Fossey (1946) made her first film when she was only five, the classic Jeux interdits/Forbidden Games (1952). As an adult, the lovely, sensitive-appearing blonde actress worked...
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Rijk de Gooijer
Every year in early autumn, the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) takes place. For ten days, the city of Utrecht is the cinema capital of the Netherlands. From 23 September till 2 October, we join the...
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Floris (1969)
Every year in early autumn, the Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) takes place. For ten days, the city of Utrecht is the cinema capital of the Netherlands. From 23 September till 2 October, we join the...
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