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Nadja Tiller
Austrian actress Nadja Tiller (1929) was one of the vamps of the European cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Her international breakthrough role was that of the high class prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt in...
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Marcelino, pan y vino (1955)
The Spanish tragi-comedy Marcelino, pan y vino/The Miracle of Marcelino (Ladislao Vajda, 1955) was an international success. It made little Pablito Calvo (1948–2000) a European film star.Italian...
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René Navarre
René Navarre (1877-1968) was a star of the French silent cinema. He appeared in 109 films between 1910 and 1946. Navarre is best remembered as the mysterious master criminal Fantômas in the legendary...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Girls Just Want to Have Fun
We continue our new series of a dozen postcards with a theme, especially for Postcard Friendship Friday. Last Friday we had 12 vintage postcards of boy stars, and now of course the floor is to the...
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Imported from the USA: Debra Paget
Exotic American actress Debra Paget (1933) is perhaps best known for Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and Elvis Presley’s film debut Love Me Tender (1956). Later, she had a career in...
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Léon Mathot
Prolific French actor Léon Mathot (1886-1968) became well-known for his role of Edmond Dantès in the French silent serial Le comte de Monte Christo/The Count of Monte Christo (1918). He is also known...
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Mia Pankau
Mia Pankau (1891-1974) was a star of the German silent cinema. Most of her films were directed by her husband, Jaap Speyer.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1031/2, 1927-1928. Photo: Atelier Balázs,...
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Dora van der Groen (1927-2015)
On 8 November, Belgian actress and theatre director Dora van der Groen (1927-2015) passed away. She starred with Julien Schoenaerts in the 'first Belgian film'Meeuwen sterven in de haven/Seagulls Die...
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All'ombra di un trono (1921)
Polish diva Soava Gallone (1880-1957) starred in the Italian silent melodrama All'ombra di un trono/In the Shadow of a Throne (1921) directed by her husband Carmine Gallone for their own production...
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Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy (1933-2007) was a dashing and strikingly versatile French actor. He became a star in the late 1950s when he was one of the best known faces of the Nouvelle Vague. Brialy worked with...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: new postcards from the collection of Didier Hanson
In September, we posted 24 rare, recently acquired postcards from the collection of Didier Hanson. Didier keeps sending us wonderful scans. So, today we can post again a dazzling dozen of his...
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Imported from the USA: John Saxon
American actor John Saxon (1935) worked on over 200 film and TV projects during the span of seven decades. Saxon appeared in many Italian films, mainly in Spaghetti Westerns.Yugoslavian postcard by...
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Ellen Terry
English stage actress Dame Ellen Terry (1847-1928) was the leading lady of legendary stage actor Henry Irving and the Queen of Britain’s stage of the Victorian era. She later starred in several silent...
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Claudia Cardinale, Part 1
Italian actress Claudia Cardinale (1938) is one of Europe's iconic and most versatile film stars. The combination of her beauty, dark, flashing eyes, explosive sexuality and genuine acting talent...
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Claudia Cardinale, Part 2
Italian actress Claudia Cardinale (1938) is one of Europe's iconic and most versatile film stars. The success of her films 8½ (1963) and Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (1963) piqued Hollywood's interest in...
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Dora Doll (1923-2015)
On 15 November 2015, French actress Dora Doll passed away at her home in Gard, France. She appeared in such classic French films as Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au...
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Die Claudi vom Geiserhof (1917)
Henny Porten was the star of the silent mountain drama Die Claudi vom Geiserhof/Claudi of the Geiserhof (Rudolf Biebrach, 1917). This Messter Film production premiered at the Mozartsaal in Berlin, on...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: the Eurospy Craze
During the 1960s, the hugely successful James Bond film series initiated a new European film genre, the Eurospy film. In 1964, two years after the release of the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962),...
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Imported from the USA: Gloria Swanson
American actress Gloria Swanson (1899–1983) is best known for her role as the reclusive silent film star Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (1950). Swanson herself was one of the most prominent stars...
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Caterina Valente
Italian singer, dancer and actress Caterina Valente (1931) was in the late 1950s and early 1960s the queen of the German Schlager music. Her popularity was global, and she played and sang in fifteen...
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