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David Anderson's 12 Favourite European Films - after 1960
One of the finest online places to read original and always well-written reviews of old and new films is Bunched Undies. On 1 February this year, host David Anderson selected especially for EFSP twelve...
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La nave (1921)
The Italian silent film La nave (1921) was based on the play by Gabriele D'Annunzio. His son Gabriellino D'Annunzio directed the film together with Mario Roncoroni. The Russian dancer and actress Ida...
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Arletty
Blessed with a combination of charisma, good looks and impressive acting ability, Arletty (1898-1992) portrayed several femme fatales, vamps, prostitutes in French films and stage plays of the 1930s...
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Alec Guinness
English actor Sir Alec Guinness (1914–2000) was one of the most versatile and subtle actors of his time, in the cinema and on television no less than on the stage. He was master of disguise in several...
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Imported from the USA: Baby Peggy
Diana Serra Cary (1918), best known as Baby Peggy, was one of the three major American child stars of the Hollywood silent movie era along with Jackie Coogan and Baby Marie. However, by the age of 8,...
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Greta Nissen
Norwegian-American Greta Nissen (1906–1988) was a blonde bombshell, who appeared in more than 30 films in Denmark, the United States and England. Unfortunately she is now most famous for a role which...
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André Mattoni
André Mattoni (1900-1985) was an Austrian stage and film actor, performing mainly in the German, Austrian and Italian cinema. He worked with Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau on Tartüff (1925), but his dream...
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Jackie Lane
Austrian born starlet Jackie Lane (1937) was a stunningly beautiful model and film actress of the 1950s and 1960s, who starred both in European films and in Hollywood pictures. She was married to...
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L'Epopée napoléonienne (1903)
L'Epopée napoléonienne/Napoleon Bonaparte (Lucien Nonguet, 1903) is an early biopic by Pathé Frères. The Historic drama shows some highlights of the career of Napoléon, like the Coronation, the battle...
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Conrad Veidt
Conrad Veidt (1893–1943) was the 'most highly strung and romantically handsome of the German expressionist actors'. From 1916 until his death, he appeared in over 100 films, including such classics as...
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Imported from the USA: Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt (1963) is executive producer of Barry Jenkins' masterpiece Moonlight (2016), nominated for eight 2017 Oscars, which will be presented tomorrow 26 February. The attractive and intelligent...
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Isabelle Huppert
Tonight is the 89th Oscars show. Nominated for the Best Actress in a leading role award is French actress Isabelle Huppert (1953) for her amazing turn in Elle (2016). Huppert plays a top exec for a...
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Michel Serrault
French stage actor and film star Michel Serrault (1928-2007) appeared from 1954 to 2007 in more than 150 films. He is best known as Albin Mougeotte, alias the outrageous drag queen Zaza Napoli in the...
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Grete Mosheim
Margaret 'Grete' Mosheim (1905-1986) was a German film, theatre and television actress of Hungarian Jewish ancestry. In the late 1920s and early 1930s she was a star of the Weimar cinema.German...
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Jack Hawkins
Square-jawed, craggy-looking Jack Hawkins (1910-1973) was an English actor who worked on stage and in film from the 1930s until the 1970s. One of the most popular British film stars of the 1950s, he...
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Die Tochter des Gräfin Stachowska (1917)
During the First World War, the German government stimulated the film industry and the star system in Germany by subsidising film postcards. It worked. One of the most popular series was the Film...
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Mireille Mathieu
French singer Mireille Mathieu (1946) has recorded over 1200 songs in eleven languages, with more than 150 million albums sold worldwide. She also appeared in a few films.East-German postcard by VEB...
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Maxime Desjardins
Maxime Desjardins (1861-1936) was a French stage and screen actor, who peaked in the French silent cinema of the 1920s. From 1912 Desjardins acted in cinema, first in short films at Pathé Frères and at...
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Collecting Marilyn
Today's post is a carte blanche for my friend, collector Carla Bosch (a.k.a. Meiter). Carla: "My postcard collection started when my husband gave me a book: Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates. It is an...
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Anne Heywood
British film actress Anne Heywood (1932) started her career as Miss Great Britain in 1950. In the mid-1950s, she began to play supporting roles as the ‘nice girl’ for Rank. Gradually she evolved into a...
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