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Yevgeni Urbansky
The creative life of prominent Soviet actor Yevgeni Urbansky (1932-1965) was short but very bright. In 1958 he rushed into the Russian cinema bursting with an irrepressible temperament and a craving...
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Emma Gramatica
Emma Gramatica (1874-1965) was a ‘monstre sacré’ of the Italian stage, but she also played many old ladies in Italian films of the 1930s to the 1950s.Italian postcard, no. 664. Photo: Sciutto,...
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Tom Jones
Welsh singer Tom Jones (1940) is particularly noted for his powerful voice. Since the mid 1960s, this ‘vocal powerhouse’ has sold over 100 million records. Many of his songs can be heard on film...
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Der blaue Engel (1930)
Today, EFSP starts a new series of film specials. We begin with a classic of the Ufa studios, Der blaue Engel/The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, 1930). It was the last of the classic films of Emil...
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André van Duin
Funny-looking, reddish André van Duin (1947) is a famous comedian and actor in the Dutch-speaking countries. He is also a singer, writer, and creator of television programs, and he starred in three...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: The World of Colette
One of our favourite authors is Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) or simply Colette. The French novelist, journalist and performer is now best known for her sexy, courageous novels Chéri and Gigi,...
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Dany Robin
French actress Dany Robin (1927-1995) was the pert, delicate-looking star in comedies and melodramas of the late 1940s till the late 1960s. The blonde dish with the piled-high hairdo was a one-time...
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Twelve New acquisitions
Yesterday, we were at the International Collector's Fair in the city of Utrecht. The enormous halls of the Jaarbeurs, full of vintage memorabilia (see the picture below), are the hunting grounds where...
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Simone Vaudry
Simone Vaudry (1906-1993) was a popular French actress of the silent era and the early sound era. She appeared both in many French and several German films and starred in several popular serials.French...
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Camilla von Hollay
Camilla von Hollay (1899–1967) was a Hungarian film actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 40 films between 1916 and 1930, first in Hungary and later in Germany. German postcard by Ross...
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Cox Habbema
Last Monday, Cox Habbema (1944-2016) passed away. She was a Dutch actress, stage director, writer and former managing director of the Municipal Theatre in Amsterdam. From 1969 till 1984 she mainly...
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La piccola vedetta lombarda (1915)
La piccola vedetta lombarda/The Little Lookout from Lombardy is one of the stories from Edmondo De Amicis's 1886 book Cuore (Heart), which were adapted to film by the Italian production company Film...
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Goldfinger (1964)
Film director Guy Hamilton, born 16 September 1922; died 20 April 2016. He was one of Britain’s most bankable film-makers with four James Bond films – Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971),...
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Madeleine Renaud
Madeleine Renaud (1900-1994) was an acclaimed French stage actress, who also had a career in film. One of her best known films was La Maternelle (1933) about a Montmartre kindergarten. With her second...
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Paul Capellani
With his brooding good looks, stage and film actor Paul Capellani (1877-1960) became a successful star of some 100 French and American films between 1908 and 1930. He was the younger brother of noted...
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Daniel Guichard
Charming Daniel Guichard (1948) is a popular French singer known for chansons like La Tendresse, Mon Vieux and Le Gitan. He also acted in two films.French collectors card by Figurine Panini in the Hit...
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Nicole Berger
Fair-haired Nicole Berger (1934-1967) was a French leading lady of the 1950s and 1960s, who appeared in several Nouvelle Vague films. Her promising career was cut short by a car crash near...
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Elizabeth The Golden Age (2007)
The British-French-German-American coproduction Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Shekhar Kapur, 2007) is the sequel to Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998), both produced by Universal Pictures and Working Title...
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Cathia Caro
Former French actress Cathia Caro (1943) was a young, delicate beauty. At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, she starred in French and especially Italian films, opposite such stars as Totò, Peppino De...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Stars on Vespas
In the bathroom of our home hangs a hilarious picture of Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd in their Ben Hur outfits. On their sandals, they are pushing a Vespa scooter through the sand of the arena. The...
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