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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Dance, Girl, Dance!
In the early 20th Century, dance became one of the most exciting performing arts. Les Ballets Russes, which performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America,...
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George Robey
George Robey (1869-1954) was an English comedian, singer and actor in musical theatre, who became known as one of the greatest music hall performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a...
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Gisela May
German actress and singer Gisela May (1924) is the first lady of the political song and a German national treasure. She is famous for her work at Bertolt Brecht's theatre group, the Berliner Ensemble....
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Hannes Jaenicke
German actor Hannes Jaenicke (1960) has played in hundreds of films and TV productions, both in Germany and the USA. His best known film is probably the elevator thriller Abwärts/Out of Order (Carl...
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Livio Pavanelli
Italian actor Livio Pavanelli (1881-1958) was a star of the Italian and in particular the German silent cinema. He also worked in Italian sound cinema as actor and production manager. And he directed...
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Le Grand bleu (1988)
Le Grand bleu/The Big Blue (Luc Besson, 1988) is a beautiful and serene French film. Jean-Marc Barr plays French diver Jacques Mayol, alongside Rosanna Arquette and Jean Reno. Le Grand bleu became the...
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Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) was the notorious director of Triumph des Willens (1935), a fascinating propaganda documentary about Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, commissioned by the Nazi government....
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: The Wheel Turns
La Roue Tourne is a French association that supports actors in need and many of the French stars on EFSP were helped by this organisation after their heydays. La Roue Tourne (the wheel turns) was...
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Helmut Griem
Handsome and suave German actor Helmut Griem (1932-2004) had a long standing career as stage actor but he is also known for his international film and television work. He is best remembered for the...
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Eva von Berne
At 17, Austrian actress Eva von Berne (1910-2010) was spotted in Vienna by MGM's second in command Irving Thalberg and introduced in Hollywood as 'the next Garbo'. However, she was not. After playing...
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Stewart Rome
Stewart Rome (1886-1965) was a British actor of the silent screen. In the 1910s he was often paired with Alma Taylor and Chrissie White. In 1915 he was voted second only to Chaplin in a Pictures...
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Hannelore Elsner
Grand German actress Hannelore Elsner (1942) started her film career in quickly forgotten light entertainment films, but in later years she starred in films by interesting directors like Edgar Reitz,...
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Das Geschlecht derer von Ringwall (1918)
Henny Porten (1890-1960) was one of the three most famous divas of the early German silent cinema. She produced many of her own films, but started her career at film pioneer Oskar Messter's studio...
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Sybil Smolowa
Austrian-Czech actress and dancer Sybil Smolova (1900-?) was a star of the German and Swedish silent cinema of the 1910s and 1920s. She started as a dancer in Riga and Warsaw and the moved to Berlin....
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Marlene Dietrich and her Screen Lovers
We found this British card published at the height of the popularity of Marlene Dietrich. A multiview postcard about her screen lovers. It must be published around 1932 cause the card contains stills...
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Marianne Faithfull
British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull (1946) started her career in the 1960s with sweet, melancholy folk-pop. Her personal life was turbulent and years of drug and alcohol abuse followed. But...
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María Félix
Energetic, fiery femme fatale María Félix (1914–2002) was an icon of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was considered one of the most beautiful film actresses of her time, and one of the erotic...
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Corry Brokken (1932-2016)
On 31 May 2016, legendary Dutch singer Corry Brokken (1932-2016) has passed away. She represented the Netherlands three times at the Eurovision Song Contest, and was the winner in 1957. She also worked...
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Marie Bizet
French singer and actress Marie Bizet (1905-1998) appeared in a dozen films between 1937 and 1989. She was better known for her performances in Vaudeville.French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no....
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Veritas Vincit (1919)
Veritas vincit (1919) is a prestigious silent film on the victory of truth through the ages. The monumental, three-part film was shot during the last months of the First World War and premiered on 4...
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