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Luis Mariano
Luis Mariano (1914-1970) was a popular tenor of Spanish Basque origin, and was also a popular film star in the 1940s and 1950s. He reached celebrity in 1946 with the operetta La belle de Cadix. For...
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Rose Bernd (1919)
Rose Bernd (1919) was an acclaimed film of Henny Porten, one of the three major film divas of the German silent cinema. Alfred Halm adapted the film from the the play of the same name by Gerhart...
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Sabu
British Indian actor Sabu (1924-1963) became an instant star with the release of the British film Elephant Boy (1937). He also starred as Abu, the thief in the Arabian fantasy-adventure The Thief of...
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Jutta Freybe
German stage and film actress Jutta Freybe (1917–1971) was the attractive blond leading lady in ten films during the Nazi era.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 1837/1, 1937-1938. Photo: Hammerer /...
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Teresa Ann Savoy (1955-2017)
On 9 January 2017, British actress Teresa Ann Savoy passed away. She lived in Italy, where she made most of her films, including the Tinto Brass films Salon Kitty (1976) and Caligula (1979). She was...
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Exported to the USA: Audrey Hepburn
Till 26 March 2017, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (The Hague, The Netherlands) presents the exhibition Hubert de Givenchy - To Audrey with Love. The exhibition is not only a grand retrospective to the famous...
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Jarmila Novotná
Czech soprano Jarmila Novotná (1907-1994) was one of the world-renowned opera luminaries of the 20th Century. Her film appearances were unfortunately few and far between.German postcard by Ross Verlag,...
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Sophie Marceau
French actress Sophie Marceau (1966) became a European film star with a string of successful films, including La boum/The Party (1980), L'Étudiante/The Student (1988), Fanfan (1993), and La fille de...
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Der brennende Acker (1922)
This week's film special is about the German silent film Der brennende Acker/Burning Soil (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1922). Murnau shot this drama right before his vampire classic Nosferatu (1922). Der...
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Albert Rueprecht
Austrian actor Albert Rueprecht (1929) was a member of the Burgtheater and Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. The blond actor made over 40 feature films, including many Heimatfilms in which he often...
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Sascha Gura
Around 1920, Sascha Gura (1896-?) was highly popular and active in the silent cinema of the Weimar Republic. She is particularly memorable in a few expressionist horror films by Otto Rippert and F.W....
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Elsa Martinelli
Glamorous Elsa Martinelli (1935) is an Italian actress and former fashion model. She showed her beautiful curves in many European and Hollywood productions of the 1950s and 1960s, but somehow she never...
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Imported from the USA: Robert De Niro
Legendary American actor Robert De Niro (1943) has starred in such classic films as Taxi Driver (1976), Novecento/1900 (1978), The Deer Hunter (1978), Awakenings (1990) and GoodFellas (1990). His role...
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Michael York
English actor Michael York (1942) is the athletic star of several Shakespeare adaptations and three popular Musketeer films. His blond, blue-eyed boyish looks and plummy accent incarnated a...
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Mylène Demongeot
Beautiful Mylène Demongeot (1935) became one of the blond sex symbols of the French cinema when she seduced Yves Montand in Les sorcières de Salem (1957). The coquettish French actress would go on to...
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Herr Arnes pengar (1919)
The Swedish silent masterpiece Herr Arnes pengar/Sir Arne's Treasure (Mauritz Stiller, 1919) is a crime-drama based on Selma Lagerlöf’s novel The Treasure. Set on the Swedish coast in the 16th century,...
View ArticleDavid Anderson's 12 Favourite European Films
One of the finest inline places to read original, well-written and always fascinating film reviews is Bunched Undies. We invited the film connaisseur behind it, David Anderson, for a guest blog. And......
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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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Terence Morgan
Tall, dark and charming English actor Terence Morgan (1921-2005) played many attractive villains and criminals in British films. But he is probably best remembered for his starring role in the TV...
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Junie Astor
Junie Astor (1911-1967) was a French actress who was highly popular in the late 1930s. Her best known film is Jean Renoir's Les Bas-fonds/The Lower Depths (1936).French postcard by Editions O.P.,...
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