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Elfie Maierhofer
Attractive Austrian actress and singer Elfie Maierhofer (1917-1992) was nicknamed 'the Viennese Nightingale' by the press and the public. During her long career, she starred in nineteen European...
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Happy Birthday, Joan Collins!
Canadian postcard in the Fan Club Postcard Series, no. 2.Today, glamorous English actress Joan Collins (1933) had her 80th birthday. One of the great survivors of the cinema, she began in the early...
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Ileana Leonidoff
Russian dancer, choreographer and actress Ileana Leonidoff or Helena Leonidof (1893 - ?) had a rather short but quite prolific film career in the Italian silent cinema in the late 1910's. Her film...
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Gordon Harker
Gordon Harker (1885 – 1967) was a popular English film actor who specialized in Cockney roles. Throughout the 1930’s and 1940’s, he seemed to appear in every crime film produced in England. Between...
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Mady Rahl
German actress Mady Rahl (1915-2009) was one of the last of the female Ufa Stars. She had a legion of male admirers during the Second World War. The platinum blonde actress had a perfect comic timing,...
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Imre Soós
Imre Soós (1930 - 1957) was the Hungarian James Dean. He had a comet-like film career and appeared in fourteen films between 1948 and 1956. After this short but successful film career, he committed...
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Ivy Close
In 1908, English actress Ivy Close (1890-1968) was chosen as 'The Most Beautiful Woman in the World'. She became one of the first stars of the British cinema and started a dynasty of British...
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Marcel Dalio
French actor Marcel Dalio (1900-1983) or simply Dalio was a citizen of the world. During the 1930s, he became a much sought-after character actor in France. His lovely animated face with its great...
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Little Tony (1941-2013)
On 28 May, rock ‘n roll singer Little Tony (1941) has died. The artist from San Marino achieved success in Great Britain during the late 1950s and early 1960s, as the lead singer of Little Tony &...
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Lydia Potechina
Russian character actress Lydia Potechina (1883 – 1934) fled to Germany in 1919, but returned to the Soviet Union in 1932. In between she was popular character actress in the Weimar cinema, who worked...
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Emmanuelle Riva
French actress Emmanuelle Riva (1927) is best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Léon Morin, Priest (1961), and Amour (2012). This year, Riva received both the Bafta and the...
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Ida Wüst
German actress Ida Wüst (1884 - 1956) was a popular Ufa star in the 1920´s and 1930´s. Die wüste Ida appeared in almost 150 films mostly as cheerful middled-aged women, aunts and intriguers. During the...
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Susan Denberg
German-born Austrian Susan Denberg (1944) was a Bluebell dancer and Playboy Playmate before she had a brief acting career in the 1960s. One of her few roles was as Peter Cushing’s beautiful new...
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Alda Borelli
Alda Borelli (1879-1964) was an Italian stage and screen actress, who peaked on stage in the 1920s, and also acted in a handful of silent films in the 1910s. She was the sister of Italian film diva...
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Annabella
Elegant Annabella (1909-1996) was France's most popular actress during the mid 1930s, but she also achieved some success in Hollywood films of the late 1930s.French postcard by EPC, no. 1. Photo: Fox...
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Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu (1948) with his trademark bulbous nose is France’s biggest male film star. He developed from France’s young male sensation in 1974 into a bulging and controversial but very talented...
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Maria Frau
Italian model and actress Maria Frau (1930) was a very photogenic starlet of the European cinema of the 1950s.German postcard by Ufa, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. FK 455. Photo: Arthur Grimm / CCC-Film /...
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The Choice of Marlène Pilaete
Do you know the French website L'Encinémathèque? A true Walhalla for film history lovers. It contains an exhibition room, called 'La collectionneuse'. Since 2003, Marlène Pilaete presents here...
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Sylva Koscina
Italian, Yugoslav-born actress Sylva Koscina (1933-1994) may be best-remembered as Iole, the bride of Steve Reeves in the original version of Hercules (1958). She also starred in several Italian and...
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Mario Guaita-Ausonia
Mario Guaita aka Mario Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali, 1913). French...
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