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Robert Vaughn (1932-2016)
Last Friday, American actor Robert Vaughn died after a brief battle with acute leukaemia. Vaughn's elegant, dark-haired Napoleon Solo on the Spy series The Man from U.N.C.L.E (1964-1968) was...
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Quo vadis? (1913)
Yesterday, an exhibition on the transmediality of Quo vadis? opened in Rome, Italy. Quo vadis? is the famous novel for which Henryk Sienkiewicz got the Nobel Prize. Today, 14 November, and tomorrow, 15...
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Quo vadis? (1924-1925)
Last Sunday, an exhibition on the transmediality of Quo vadis? opened in Rome, Italy, and yesterday also a conference started on Quo vadis?. EFSP collaborator Ivo Blom speaks in Rome about the painters...
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Cirano di Bergerac (1923)
The Franco-Italian historical film Cirano di Bergerac (Augusto Genina, 1923) was based on Edmond Rostand's often-filmed play Cyrano de Bergerac. Pierre Magnier starred as Cyrano de Bergerac, the...
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Erika Glässner
Cute actress Erika Glässner (1890-1959) starred as a backfisch and later as a cheeky temptress in many German films of the silent era. From 1915 till 1952 she appeared in some 80 films.German postcard...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: our newest acquisitions
Last Saturday, we travelled to Utrecht for 'Europe's biggest Vintage Collectors Fair'! And again, we found lots and lots of postcards. In the following months you can see them here at EFSP, but for...
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Imported from the USA: Bebe Daniels
Bebe Daniels (1901-1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress and later, she was the love...
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Siegfried Arno
Siegfried or Sig Arno (1895-1975) was regularly being referred to as the ‘German Charlie Chaplin’. The German-Jewish character actor appeared in ninety silent and early sound films before he had to...
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Gil Vidal
Good-looking French actor Gil Vidal (1931) was a popular jeune premier of the 1950s.French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 1009. Photo: Studio Vallois.A potential rival for Alain DelonGil Vidal...
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Beniamino Gigli
Actor and opera singer Beniamino Gigli (1890-1957) was one of the most famous Italian tenors, internationally respected for the beauty of his voice and his vocal technique. Between 1935 and 1950,...
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Karin Ingmarsdotter (1920)
The Swedish silent film Karin Ingmarsdotter/God's Way/Karin Daughter of Ingmar (1920) was a production by Svenska Biografteatren AB. It is the second part in Victor Sjöström's large-scale adaptation of...
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Jean Desailly
French actor Jean Desailly (1920-2008) was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 to 1946, and later participated in about ninety films. He achieved his greatest popularity in the 1940s and 1950s....
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: published by Takken
In the city of Utrecht, in the heart of the Netherlands, a little publishing company produced dozens of interesting film star postcards during the 1950s and 1960s. They often worked together with Photo...
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Imported from the USA: Kirk Douglas
No, he is not dead, as People Magazine announced in 2014. Cleft-chinned, gravelly voiced and steely-eyed American actor, producer, director, and author Kirk Douglas (1916) lives! He was a leading...
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Maria Sebaldt
Maria Sebaldt (1930) is a German actress who appeared in many lightweight entertainment films of the 1950 and 1960s. Her parts were often flirtatious and playful. Highlights were the comedies Der...
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Doris Duranti
Doris Duranti (1917-1995) was a beautiful star of the Italian cinema of the late 1930s and early 1940s, and the main competitor of actress Clara Calamai. She was also the lover of a notorious...
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Ewan McGregor
Scottish actor Ewan McGregor (1971) first received worldwide acclaim with his role as heroin addict Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996). Later, he played the young Obi-Wan in the Star Wars prequel...
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La preda (1921)
La preda/The prey (Guglielmo Zorzi, 1921) was an Italian silent melodrama starring diva Maria Jacobini, Amleto Novelli and the young Carmen Boni.Italian postcard by G.B. Falci, Milano, no. 33. Photo:...
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Renzo Ricci
Renzo Ricci (1899-1978) was an Italian stage and screen actor and also stage director. The modern theatre, focused so strongly at the introspection of the characters, found in Ricci one of its most...
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EFSP's Dazzling Dozen: photos by Atelier Schenker
This Dazzling Dozen post is inspired by Marlene Pilaete. Recently she did a 'La chambre obscure' post at La Collectionneuse on Atelier Schenker. This was one of the most famous German photo studios...
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