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Imported from the USA: Janet Gaynor
Petite Janet Gaynor (1906-1984) was the innocent-eyed, round-faced Hollywood star who won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles in three silent films. She went on to become a leading...
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Oliver Tobias
Dashingly handsome Oliver Tobias (1947) was born in Switzerland but started his career in the original London production of Hair (1968), playing the prime rebel role of Berger. He is also known for the...
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Juliette Binoche
French actress Juliette Binoche (1964) has appeared in more than 60 international films. She won numerous international awards, and has appeared on stage across the world. André Téchiné made her a star...
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Boris Karloff
British actor Boris Karloff (1887-1969) is one of the true icons of the Horror cinema. He portrayed Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and Son of Frankenstein...
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Resurrezione (1917)
The Italian silent film Resurrezione/Resurrection (Mario Caserini, 1917) starred diva Maria Jacobini and André Habay. The Tiber-film production was based on Leo Tolstoy's powerful novel.Italian...
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Reinhold Schünzel
German actor and director Reinhold Schünzel (1888-1953) started his successful film career during the first World War. He helmed and appeared in more than 100 productions, specialising in light...
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Béatrice Altariba
Béatrice Altariba (1939) was the pretty star of many French comedies of the 1950s, often opposite her partner Darry Cowl. Till 1969 she appeared in more than 30 productions, including several Italian...
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Yvonne Monlaur (1939-2017)
On Thursday 18 April 2017, French film actress Yvonne Monlaur has passed away. She starred in several European film productions of the late 1950s and 1960s. The glamorous French starlet is best known...
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Rubi Dalma
Italian stage and screen actress Rubi Dalma (1906-1994), aka Rubi D'Alma, often played stereotyped roles of sophisticated and sometimes snobbish noblewomen. She worked with such directors as Righelli,...
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Exported to the USA: Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret (1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer, with a career that spans five decades. Her trademarks are her breathless voice, strawberry blonde hair and voluptuous figure which...
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Constance Collier
Constance Collier (1878–1955) was an English stage and film actress and later one of Hollywood's premiere drama and voice coaches. In a career that covered six decades, she evolved into one of London’s...
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Ilona Béres
Ilona Béres (1942) is a well-known film and television actress in Hungary. She appeared in many popular Hungarian films of the 1960s.East-German postcard by VEB Progress Filmvertrieb, Berlin. no. 2208,...
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Winnetou II. Teil (1964)
The German Westerm Winnetou – 2. Teil/Last of the Renegades (Harald Reinl, 1964), also known as Winnetou: The Red Gentleman, is one of the Eurowesterns in the series based on the novels by Karl May....
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Horst Frank
German film actor Horst Frank (1929–1999) appeared in more than 100 films between 1955 and 1999. During the 1960s he was the blond, steely-eyed bad guy of of countless Spaghetti Westerns and Eurospy...
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Marcel Cerdan
World boxing champion Marcel Cerdan (1916–1949) was France's greatest boxer with the nickname ‘The Casablanca Clouter’. His life was marked by his sporting achievements, his passionate love affair with...
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Exported to the USA: Johnny Weissmuller
Hungarian-born American competition swimmer and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984) is best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s. Weissmuller was one of the world's fastest...
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Katharina Thalbach
Katharina Thalbach (1954) is one of Germany's most respected stage actresses mostly working in Hamburg and Berlin. Internationally, she is best known for her part in Die Blechtrommel/The Tin Drum...
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Diana Dors
Blonde and curvey bombshell Diana Dors (1931-1984) was called ‘The English Marilyn Monroe’, to her disgust. In her own words: "I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain's naughty...
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Else Bassermann
Else Bassermann, née Elisabeth Sara Schiff (1878-1961) was a German stage and screen actress. In 1908 she married renowned stage actor Albert Bassermann and often performed together with him on stage....
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Das Herz der Königin (1940)
The German historical film Das Herz der Königin/The Heart of a Queen (Carl Froehlich, 1940), stars Swedish diva Zarah Leander as Mary Stuart Queen of Scots and Nazi heartthrob Willy Birgel as Lord...
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