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Imported from the USA: Olive Moorefield
During the 1950s and 1960s, American singer and actress Olive Moorefield (1932) worked in Austria and West Germany. She starred on stage in musicals and operas, acted in several films, including Monpti...
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Mathias Wieman
German actor Mathias Wieman (1902-1969) starred in more than 50 films was and made Staatsschauspieler, the highest honour attainable by an actor in Germany. But a few years later he was classified as...
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Ada Reeve
British stage and film actress Ada Reeve (1874-1966) was much loved on three continents. She was one of the most popular British singing comediennes of her time, and considered to be a headliner in...
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Christine Kaufmann (1945-2017)
On 28 March 2017, German actress Christine Kaufmann passed away. Only seven, she made her film debut in an adaptation of Im weißen Rößl/The White Horse Inn (1952). As an adult, Kaufmann moved to...
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Musidora
This afternoon a new book on the early cinema is launched at EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Women in Silent Cinema. Histories of Fame and Fate by Dutch film historian Annette Förster. This wonderful book...
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Wanna Be Marilyn
At 5 March, there was a carte blanche guest post by my friend, collector Carla Bosch (a.k.a. Meiter). She did a wonderful post on her collection of Marilyn Monroe postcards, Collecting Marilyn. While...
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Imported from the USA: Tina Louise
American actress, singer, and author Tina Louise (1934) began her career on stage during mid-1950s and became a popular pin-up model, before landing her breakthrough role in the film drama God's Little...
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Maruschka Detmers
Gorgeous Dutch actress Maruschka Detmers (1962) moved to France as a teenager, where she captured the attention of director Jean-Luc Godard, and made her dramatic debut in his Prénom Carmen (1983)....
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Lucien Baroux
Comic French actor Lucien Baroux (1888-1968) started in the theatre as a stage manager. After the First World War he appeared in many operettas and comedies. From the 1930s on, he also had a long...
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Odette Joyeux
French actress Odette Joyeux (1914-2000) was highly popular in the 1940s. She was a star in several films by Claude Autant-Lara and Marc Allégret.French postcard by Editions O.P., Paris, no. 46. Photo:...
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Ungarische Rhapsodie (1928)
Willy Fritsch, Dita Parlo and Lil Dagover play a love triangle in the wonderful Film Operetta Ungarische Rhapsodie/Hungarian Rhapsody (Hanns Schwarz, 1928). Many well known names in the cast and the...
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Luciano Albertini
Tonight, we are in Berlin at the Zeughauskino for a special screening in the series Wiederentdeckt (Rediscovered). Film historian Ivo Blom, who often contributes to this blog, will introduce there one...
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Pál Jávor
The effortlessly suave Romanian-born actor Pál Jávor (1902-1959) was one of the first stars of the Hungarian sound cinema. His glamorous and highly successful stage and film career was broken, first by...
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Imported from the USA: Eddie Polo
Eddie Polo (1875–1961) was an Austro-American actor of the silent era. His nickname was 'Hercules of the Screen'. Polo played adventurers and cowboys in American serials and films. During the late...
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Heather Angel
Flower-like British-American actress Heather Angel (1909-1986) was in high demand both in British films and in Hollywood throughout the 1930s. In 1937, she began playing Phyllis Clavering in the...
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Hella Moja
During the First World War and the following years Hella Moja (1890-1951) was one of the most popular stars of the German silent cinema. There even was a Hella Moja series and in 1918 the actress...
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Wanda Capodaglio
Wanda Capodaglio (1889-1980) was an Italian stage, screen and television actress. She appeared in 30 films between 1914 and 1970.Italian postcard by Ediz. Stab. Capecchi, Livorno. Photo: Capecchi,...
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Le petit poucet (1905)
Le petit poucet/Tom Thumb (1905), produced by Pathé, is a film adaptation of Charles Perrault's famous story of 1697. The French silent film was worldwide released. In Spanish speaking countries it was...
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Larisa Luzhina
Russian actress Larisa Luzhina (1939) was a star of the Soviet cinema. She was a People's Artist of the RSFSR.Russian postcard, no. 14187, 1966. This postcard was printed in an edition of 200.000...
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Julie Delpy
French actress Julie Delpy (1969) made her first film appearance at 14 in Détective (1985) by Jean-Luc Godard. Since then, she starred in many European films by directors as Bertrand Tavernier,...
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