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Michèle Morgan (1920-2016), Part 2
Yesterday French actress Michèle Morgan (1920-2016) has died. The classic blonde beauty has been one of her country's most popular leading ladies for over five decades. The delicate, sophisticated, and...
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Léo Marjane (1912–2016)
On 18 December French singer Léo Marjane (1912–2016) passed away. Marjane helped to introduce jazz in France, and recorded more than 180 songs between 1932 and mid-1950s. Her popularity reached a peak...
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Pünktchen und Anton (1953)
The West-German/Austrian co-production Pünktchen und Anton/Punktchen and Anton (Thomas Engel, 1953) is an adaptation of Erich Kästner's children's book with the same name. The novel was exceptionally...
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Imported from the USA: Grace Kelly
American actress Grace Kelly (1929-1982) had a brief but very successful Hollywood career. She was the sparkling, elegant heroin in three classic Alfred Hitchcock thrillers. Her talents rivalled her...
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Merry Christmas!
Gelukkig kerstfeest! Frohe Weihnachten! ¡Feliz Navidad! Joyeux Noël! Buon Natale! Sretan Božić! Καλά Χριστούγεννα! Boldog karácsonyt! Gleðileg jól! Nollaig Shona! Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus! Linksmų...
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Kim Rossi Stuart
Hunky Italian actor Kim Rossi Stuart (1969) started as a teen idol in B-films and TV movies. He turned his career in a more serious direction with arthouse hits like Michelangelo Antonioni’s Al di là...
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Pierre Blanchar
Pierre Blanchar (1892-1963) was one of France's most popular show business personalities. He made many memorable stage appearances and appeared in 54 films. Blanchar often played characters who were...
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Tödlicher Irrtum (1970)
Tödlicher Irrtum/Fatal Error (Konrad Petzold, 1970) is a typical Ostern (or Eastern), a Western produced in socialist East-Germany. Although all the characters of the film are fictitious, production...
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Kim Parker
Beautiful starlet Kim Parker (1933) was born in Austria as Herta Padawer. She played in a dozen European films including Pasaporte al infierno/Hi-Jack (1956) and Undercover Girl (1958). Her main claim...
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Marlene's 12 Men
One of our favourite online places is 'La collectionneuse'. Marlène Pilaete creates here beautiful albums with her vintage postcards of international film actresses. Each album is a precious,...
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EFSP achieves a new record
July 2016 was an excellent month for EFSP. For the first time since May 2010, when we started counting, there were more than 90,000 pageviews in one month. But December 2016 was even better! Three days...
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Mirror, mirror
Goodbye 2016, Hello 2017! EFSP starts the New Year with a guest post. Film historian Ivo Blom chose for this New Year's post 12 postcards from his collection which feature mirrors. Ivo: "Mirror, mirror...
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Exported to the USA: Corinne Calvet
Alluring French leading lady Corinne Calvet (1925-2001) made a big splash in Hollywood in the early 1950s with her sultry looks and her highly publicised legal battles.>Dutch postcard by Takken,...
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Polaire
French singer and actress Polaire (1874-1939) had a career in the entertainment industry which stretched from the early 1890s to the mid-1930s. She encompassed the range from music-hall singer to stage...
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La Chiromante (1922)
In the silent Italian melodrama La chiromante/The Fortune Teller (1922), film diva Italia Almirante Manzini stars opposite the divos Lido Manetti, Albert Collo and Oreste Bilancia. The film was...
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Milena Dvorská
Czech actress Milena Dvorská (1938-2009) appeared in 70 films and television shows between 1955 and 2009. Dvorská could be seen in many Czech historical films and in fairy tale films.East-German...
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Hertha Thiele
For a brief period during the Weimar Republic, Hertha Thiele (1908-1984) appeared in several controversial stage plays and films. She is best known for playing a 14 year old schoolgirl in love with her...
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Leslie Banks
Leslie Banks (1890–1952) was an English stage and screen actor, director, and producer. He is now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930s and...
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Exported to the USA: Angela Lansbury
Strawberry blonde and blue-eyed Angela Lansbury (1925) is a British-born character actress, who works in the United States since the Second World War began. She began her career as a teenager in the...
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Victor Varconi
Handsome Victor Varconi (1891–1976) was a highly successful matinee idol of the Hungarian-Austrian and German silent cinema in the 1910s and early 1920s. Later he was the first Hungarian actor to...
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