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Werner Krauss
German stage and film actor Werner Krauss (1884-1959) became a worldwide sensation as the demonic Dr. Caligari in the classic of the German expressionist cinema, Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari/The...
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Emmanuelle Riva (1927–2017)
On Friday 27 January 2017, French actress Emmanuelle Riva passed away at the age of 89. She became well-known for her roles in the classic Nouveau Vague films Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and Léon Morin,...
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Glynis Johns
Husky voiced Glynis Johns (1923) is a retired Welsh stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer. She is best known for her film roles as a mermaid in the British comedy Miranda (1948) and as...
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EFSP starts 2017 with a new pageview record
2016 was an excellent year for EFSP. For the first time since May 2010, when we started counting, there were more than 90,000 pageviews in one month in July 2016. December 2016 was even better when we...
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David Anderson's 12 Favourite European Films
One of the finest online places to read original and always well-written reviews of old and new films is Bunched Undies. We invited the film connaisseur behind this blog, David Anderson, for a guest...
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De Vlaschaard (1943)
The Belgian-German production De Vlaschaard (Boleslaw Barlog, 1943) was an adaptation of the Flemish 1907 novel of the same name by Stijn Streuvels. The film's premiere was at the Ghent cinema Capitool...
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Grete Lundt
Grete Lundt aka Grete Lund (1892-1926) was as an Austrian stage and screen actress, who played in Austrian and German silent films. Lundt’s career went down by lack of work and money, aggravated by a...
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Charles Willy Kayser
German actor Charles Willy Kayser (sometimes written as Kaiser) (1881-1942) had a remarkable career in the silent cinema. However, today he is little known, while many of his films are considered lost...
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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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Rocío Dúrcal
Spanish singer and actress Rocío Dúrcal (1944–2006) was called the ‘Queen of Ranchera’, the traditional Mexican song. She began in the 1950s as a child star and as a teenager, she appeared in a series...
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Imported from the USA: Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse (1921-2008) was born to be a dancer. She became one of the top female dancers in the golden era of the musical. Her films include Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953),...
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Jane Rollette
Jane Rollette aka Jeanne Rollette (1891-1994) was a French film actress who peaked in Louis Feuillade's serial films of the late 1910s and early 1920s.French postcard by Cinémagazine-Edition, no. 82....
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102-year-old Hungarian film discovered in Amsterdam
Dutch researchers at the Amsterdam-based EYE Film Institute have discovered one of the oldest extant Hungarian films: A Munkászubbony/The Work Jacket, first shown on 12 January 1915. Lost for decades,...
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Carte blanche for Didier Hanson
Didier Hanson has a collection of over 6,000 vintage - and often rare - postcards of film actors and other celebrities. We asked him for a new guest post and gave him carte blanche. Didier did not...
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Composer Jan Stoeckart of Floris (1969) dead
The ringtone on my phone is the title tune of the TV-series Floris (1969), composed by Jan Stoeckart (1927-2017). Stoeckart, who also composed the soundtracks for such films as Paul Verhoeven's feature...
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Antonio Cifariello
Handsome Antonio Cifariello (1930–1968) was an Italian actor and documentary filmmaker. In his short but intense career he starred in several Italian comedies as a young and seductive Don Giovanni. He...
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Ginette Leclerc
French actress Ginette Leclerc (1912-1992) starred in many films of the 1930s and 1940s. With her smouldering eyes, her carnal smile and her vulgar voice, she represented the vamp from the...
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Exported to the USA: Alla Nazimova
Alla Nazimova (1879–1945) was a grand, highly flamboyant star of the American silent cinema. The Russian-born film and theatre actress, screenwriter, and film producer was widely known as just...
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Hardy Krüger Jr.
German actor Hardy Krüger Jr. (1968) has proved to be more than the son of. He appeared in several international films and starred in popular TV series. Beside his acting career, he is a passionate...
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Happy Valentine's Day!
Is Valentine's Day grossly commercialised? We guess so, but not here. EFSP is for lovers, not for ads. So let's get crazy with 12 postcards full of hearts, kisses and amour, amore, liebe, karlek,...
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