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Paula Wessely
Paula Wessely (1907-2000) reigned as Austria’s most distinguished and beloved stage and screen actress almost from her debut at the Vienna Volkstheater in 1924 until her retirement in 1987. She was...
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Clara Calamai
Sultry and glamorous Clara Calamai (1909-1998) acted in many light entertainment films of the late 1930s and 1940s. However, the Italian actress is best known for her most unglamorous role. For always...
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Imported from the USA: Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner (1920–1985), famous for his completely bald head, was a Russian-born United States-based film and stage actor. He was best known for his portrayal of King Mongkut of Siam in the Rodgers and...
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Rita Gam (1927-2016)
Last Tuesday, glamorous American film and television actress Rita Gam passed away. After a promising debut in the Film Noir The Thief (Russell Rouse, 1952), her subsequent Hollywood roles were largely...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Colourful Film Pictures
Ross Verlag in Berlin put out little cards known as cigarette cards, which were much smaller than the famous Ross postcards. These cards (app. 7 x 5,5 cm or 28 x 22, 5 inch) were sold in packs or...
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Jean-Marc Barr
Attractive French-American actor Jean-Marc Barr (1960) is best known for his roles for Lars von Trier in Europa/Zentropa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996) and Dogville (2003).French postcard by...
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Izolda Izvitskaya
Russian actress Izolda Izvitskaya (1932-1971) was a shining star of the Soviet cinema in the late 1950s. In 1971 she died tragically of cold and starvation, a forgotten alcoholic.East-German postcard...
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Adrienne Corri (1931-2016)
Last Saturday, The Times announced that British actress Adrienne Corri has passed away on 13 March 2016. Corri is best known as Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago (1965) and as the rape victim...
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Alfred Abel
Elegant Alfred Abel (1879-1937) is best known as the industrial Joh. Fredersen in Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece Metropolis (1926). Abel played in over 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and...
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Imported from the USA: Marlon Brando
American film star Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time. A cultural icon, Brando is most famous for his Oscar-winning performances as Terry Malloy...
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Thierry Lhermitte
Tall and handsome Thierry Lhermitte (1952) is one of France's most popular actors, writers, and producers, best known for his roles in comedies. In the 1970s, he was one of the founders of the comedy...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Stars on Cigarette Cards
Last Friday, EFSP presented you a dozen cigarette cards, made by Ross Verlag in Berlin. These were all cards from a series called Bunte Filmbilder (Colourful Film Pictures). Before that Ross published...
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Marianne Krencsey (1931-2016)
Last Wednesday, 30 March 2016, Hungarian Actress Marianne Krencsey died. She starred in some of the classics of the Hungarian cinema of the 1950s, like her debut film Liliomfi/Lily Boy (Karoly Makk,...
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Monique Rolland
Monique Rolland (1913–1999) was a French film actress who appeared in dozens of French films of the 1930s, often in supporting parts. She worked with major directors like Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier...
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Robertson Hare
Robertson Hare (1891-1979) was an English actor, who came to fame in the Aldwych farces between 1923 and 1933. Bald, short and fussy, Hare made his stage career in character roles, often as a figure of...
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Gerlinde Locker
Pretty Gerlinde Locker (1938) is an Austrian stage, television and film actress, who appeared in many Heimatfilms and film operettas of the late 1950s and early 1960s. From 1956 on, she appeared in...
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Imported from the USA: Dolores del Río
Mexican and American actress Dolores del Río (1905–1983) was a Hollywood star in the 1920s and 1930s, and one of the most important female actresses of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and...
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Gérard Barray
French comedian and film and television actor Gérard Barray (1931) was one of the swashbuckling heroes of the French cinema. During the 1960s, he starred as D’Artagnan and Scaramouche, but also in many...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Girls Will Be Boys
We love tomboys. Girls who wear boys clothing and engage in soccer games and all kind of other physical activities that are considered in many cultures to be unfeminine or the domain of boys. There...
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Claire Gordon
Blonde, voluptuous Claire Gordon (1941-2015) made theatrical history as the first actress to appear naked on the British stage. The British actress and pin-up model is also known for sexy leading and...
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