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Mia May
Austrian silent film star Mia May (1884-1980) was one of the first divas of the German cinema. During and after the First World War, she became the subject of countless early film star postcards. The...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Photo by Bettini
Italian film star postcards are among our favourites. Exquisite are the sepia postcards by Roman publisher Edizione Sociéta Anonima Italiana Bettini. The photos for the cartoline were made by Cavaliere...
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Ernst Reicher
Ernst Reicher (1885-1936) was a German stage and screen actor, director, screenwriter and producer, famous for his Stuart Webbs detective films.German postcard by Photochemie, Berlin, no. K.1325.German...
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Maria Landrock
German actress Maria Landrock (1923-1992) was a successful Ufa star during the Third Reich. After the war, her film career was over and she became a voice actress, who dubbed films with Sophia Loren...
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Cliff Richard
In the late 1950s Sir Cliff Richard (1940) became known as 'Britain's answer to Elvis Presley'. The ‘Cliff Richard musical’ was the number one cinema box office attraction in Britain for both 1962 and...
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Irma Gramatica
Irma Gramatica (1867-1962) was an Italian stage and screen actress, known for her qualities but also her temper.Italian postcard, no. 48. Photo: Sciutto, Genoa.Enormous potentialIrma Gramatica,...
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La signora di tutti (1934)
Isa Miranda (1905–1982) was the only international film star produced by the Italian fascist cinema. Her breakthrough film was the drama La signora di tutti (1934), the only Italian film of the great...
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Claude Hulbert
Popular stage and screen comedian Claude Hulbert (1900-1964) starred in several minor British films of the 1930s. He was called 'the king of the posh idiots'. Hulbert also scripted a few films,...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Pathé shorts
Today is the final day of the Domitor 2016 conference in Stockholm. This international conference for film historians bulks of interesting lectures, panels, round tables and screenings, all on the...
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Gigliola Cinquetti
Italian singer Gigliola Cinquetti (1947) won the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 with Non ho l'età. She was only 16 at the time, and it was her first of several international hits. During her long career...
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Siegfried Rauch
Siegfried Rauch (1932) is a popular German film and television actor. In the 1970s he appeared in several international films. He has been an actor for over 45 years, in approximately 200...
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Françoise Hardy
French singer, actress and astrologer Françoise Hardy (1944) was the original Yé-yé girl with her trademark jeans and leather jacket. She was one of the most popular French music stars of the 1960s,...
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Juliette Mayniel
Doe-eyed French actress Juliette Mayniel (1936) appeared in 35 films and TV films between 1958 and 1978. Her film career made a jump start with two masterpieces, Claude Chabrol’s Les Cousins (1959) and...
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Mes p'tits (1923)
Italian strongman Ausonia and the French actors Gina Relly and Edouard Mathé were the stars of the French silent film Mes p'tits/Le calvaire d’un saltimbanque (Paul Barlatier, Charles Keppens, 1923),...
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Geraldine Chaplin
Versatile English-American actress Geraldine Chaplin (1944) is the daughter of Charlie Chaplin. Her breakthrough was her role as Omar Shariff’s wife in David Lean’s classic Doctor Zhivago (1965). She...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Sex Kittens from France
Oh-la-la! The French woman has an international reputation of being risqué: French mademoiselles are more sensual, more naughty than our girls-next-door. Hollywood sustained that image with countless...
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Lars Hanson
Today starts the 30th edition of Cinema Ritrovata. Till 2 July we're in Bologna, Italy, to attend the festival. One of the programme sections is 100 YEARS AGO: A SELECTION FROM 1916. Included is the...
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Béla Lugosi
We're at the 30th edition of Cinema Ritrovata. Till 2 July we'll stay in Bologna, Italy, to attend the festival and blog about the stars of the festival. A highlight of the programme section UNIVERSAL...
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Diana Karenne
We're at the 30th edition of Cinema Ritrovata. Till 2 July we'll stay in Bologna, Italy, to blog about the stars of the festival. In the programme section ITALIA 1916: WOMEN AND WAR a fragment of Oltre...
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Serge Reggiani
One of the programme sections at Cinema Ritrovata 2016 is JACQUES BECKER – THE VERY IDEA OF FREEDOM. Becker is the director of such classics as Casque d'or (1952), starring Simone Signoret and...
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