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Nicoletta Braschi
Italian actress Nicoletta Braschi (1960) is best known for the acclaimed film La vita è bella (1997), in which she co-starred with her husband Roberto Benigni.Italian postcard by Cineteca Bologna....
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Star Pin-ups - Cheesecake
I love vintage star pin-ups. You love star pin-ups too, don't you? Why do we all love star pin-ups? These lovely bathing beauties, those sensual love goddesses from the golden age of Hollywood, sex...
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Sheila Sim (1922-2016)
On 19 January, British actress Sheila Sim (1922-2016) passed away, aged 93. She was the wife of the actor and director Richard Attenborough. As an actress she was mainly active in the 1940s and 1950s....
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Henny Porten, Part 1
Sturdy and blond Henny Porten (1890-1960) was one of Germany's most important and popular film actresses of the silent cinema. She was also the producer of many of her own films. She became the...
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Henny Porten, Part 2
Sturdy and blond Henny Porten (1890-1960) was one of Germany's most important and popular film actresses of the silent cinema. She was also the producer of many of her own films. But what happened with...
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Auf Probe gestellt (1918)
Another popular film with sturdy and blonde German diva Henny Porten (1890-1960) was the silent comedy Auf Probe gestellt/Put to the test (Rudolf Biebrach, 1918). Behind the camera were several...
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Der Kaufmann von Venedig (1923)
Henny Porten and Harry Liedtke are two of the three stars of the German silent film Der Kaufmann von Venedig (Peter Paul Felner, 1923). It was based on the classic stage play The Merchant of Venice by...
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Claude Rains
The career of English stage and film actor Claude Rains (1889 - 1967) spanned 47 years. In Hollywood he was a supporting actor who achieved A-list stardom. With his smooth distinguished voice he could...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Star Pin-ups - Beefcake
Last Friday, we presented twelve star pin-up postcards to make you smile. Sexy starlets, sweet bathing beauties and lovely love goddesses. But this is an emancipated blog that also loves some good old...
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Karin Molander
Swedish actress Karin Molander (1889–1978) was a star of the silent Scandinavian cinema. In the films of Mauritz Stiller, she became a symbol of the modern, young and emancipated women of the...
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Léon Bernard
French stage actor Léon Bernard (1877-1935) was a Sociétaire of the noted Comédie-Française. Before, during and after the First World War, he also appeared in dozens of silent films, including Les...
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Isabella Rossellini
Isabella Rossellini (1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, and model. She is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet (1986) and Death Becomes...
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Imported from the USA: Kim Novak
American film and television actress Kim Novak (1933) starred in such popular successes as Picnic (1955), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Pal Joey (1957). However, she is perhaps best known...
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Fien de la Mar
Tonight at the International Film Festival Rotterdam is the world premiere of Ik wil gelukkig zijn/One Life is not enough (2016). Annette Apon directed this documentary about one of the few real film...
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Hilde Maroff
Hildegard Maroff (1904-1984) was a German character actress, who started her film career in the silent cinema. She later managed the career of her son, Peter Bosse, who was a popular child star during...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Stars & Cars
The year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of the modern car. The birth of the cinema followed only nine years later. These two symbols of the modern age often drove on together. Since the 1920s,...
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Jean Reno
Jean Reno (1948) is a Moroccan-born French actor of Spanish descent, with a low-key raspy voice. He became known for his many roles in films by director Luc Besson, including Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue...
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Lucy Di San Germano
Lucy Di San Germano aka Lucy Sangermano (1898-?) was an Italian silent film actress who peeked in the late 1910s and early 1920s.Italian postcard by Ed. G. Vettori, Bologna, no. 13/1058. Photo: UCI...
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Erich Auer
Austrian actor Erich Auer (1923-2004) was an all-rounder. As a stage actor, he played 150 different roles on the Austrian stage. He appeared in Operettas at the Volkstheater and in character roles at...
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Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) was a Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei...
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