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Malombra (1917)
Malombra (Carmine Gallone, 1917) is one of the most important films of the first diva of the Italian silent cinema, Lyda Borelli. The film drama was adapted from the 1881 novel Malombra by Antonio...
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Danielle Darrieux
French actress and singer Danielle Darrieux (1917) is an enduringly beautiful, international leading lady whose eight-decade career is among the longest in film history. From her film debut in 1931 on...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Ceci n'est pas un pipe
A smoking pipe is a device made to allow the user to inhale or taste smoke or vapor derived from the burning or vaporization of some substance. The most common form of these is the tobacco pipe, which...
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Diana Rigg
English actress Diana Rigg (1938) is well known as Emma Peel in the classic TV series The Avengers (1965-1968), and now as Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013-). In between she had an extensive...
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Donatien
French actor, director and art director Donatien aka Emile-Bernard Donatien (1887-1955) was active in silent French cinema of the 1920s.French postcard by Editions Cinémagazine, Paris, no....
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Irma Gramatica
Irma Gramatica (1867-1962) was an Italian stage and screen actress, known for her qualities but also for her temper. Gramatica appeared in ten films during her career. She was the sister of actress...
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Manfred Krug
German actor Manfred Krug (1937) was often cast as a socialist hero in DEFA films of the former GDR. He also became known in East-Germany as a jazz singer. In 1977, he returned to West-Germany, where...
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Come le foglie (1917)
Italian diva Maria Jacobini was the star of the silent comedy-drama Come le foglie/Like the Leaves (Gennaro Righelli, 1917). The film was based on a stage play by Giuseppe Giacosa, which was performed...
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Carsta Löck
German actress Carsta Löck (1902–1993) made over 100 films in Germany, Austria and Sweden, from 1933 to 1983. During the 1930s, she was usually cast in comedies and propaganda films as plain or naive...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Beauty Queens
Beauty contests became popular in the 1880s, but were not regarded as respectable. The pageants came to be considered more respectable with the first modern Miss America contest held in 1921. Beauty...
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Imported from the USA: Marilyn Monroe
This year Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) would have turned 90. Till 5 February 2017, De Nieuwe Kerk (The New Church) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, presents the exhibition 90 Years Ms Monroe about her life...
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Pietje Bell (2002)
Every autumn, the Cinekid Film, Television and New Media Festival offers films, workshops and masterclasses for Dutch children during the school holidays. This year, the international festival...
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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. She was the sister of the equally famous Irma...
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Pierre Etaix (1928-2016)
French clown, actor and filmmaker Pierre Etaix has died aged 87. Etaix, who, was directly inspired by Max Linder and Buster Keaton, kept the tradition of slapstick alive. In the 1960s he made a series...
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La Wally (1932)
Italian stage and screen actress Germana Paolieri featured as Wally (German Paolieri), the most beautiful girl in the town of Sölden in Tyrol, in La Wally (1932). This early Italian sound film, based...
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Pierce Brosnan
Irish film and television actor and film producer Pierce Brosnan (1953) is best known for his recurring role as British spy 007 in the popular James Bond film series. He first won over television...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: Cheers!
Alcohol and film go hand in hand. The magic elixir can be a gateway towards self-destruction and tragedy, such as in the Pre-Code drama Anna Christie (1930) in which Greta Garbo's famous first line is:...
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Imported from the USA: Broderick Crawford
The series Imported from the USA is back! Hard-living and hard-drinking American actor Broderick Crawford (1911–1986) was often cast in tough-guy roles. He is best known for his portrayal of politician...
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Else Frölich
In the 1910s, Else Frölich (1880-1960) or Else Frølich was one of the leading actresses of the Danish Nordisk Company. In many Nordisk films she was paired with the male star of those years, Valdemar...
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Jacques Brel
Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel (1929-1978) was one of the most important and influential representatives of the French chanson. At the height of his success, in 1966, he chose to stop singing...
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