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Emmy Lynn
Emmy Lynn (1889-1978) was a French stage and screen actress, known for her parts in the French silent films by Abel Gance, Henry Roussel and Marcel L’Herbier. French postcard by Editions Cinémagazine,...
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Klaus Kinski
Intense and eccentric Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) was one of the most colourful stars of the European cinema. In a film career of over 40 years the German actor appeared in more than 130 films, including...
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Fabiola (1918)
Today film historian Ivo Blom gives a paper in Rome on painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the Italian antiquity film Fabiola (Enrico Guazzoni, 1918), featuring Elena Sangro. Blom will focus on...
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Italia Almirante
Film historian and EFSP contributor is still in Rome and today he gives a paper on the classic epic Cabiria (1914), which was the summit of the early Italian Antiquity films. Sadly, there are no...
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Albert Bassermann
Albert Bassermann (1867–1952) was one of the first great German stage actors who worked for the cinema. In 1933 he fled the Nazi regime and became an Oscar nominated character actor in Hollywood.German...
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Anita Pallenberg (1942-2017)
On 13 June 2017, Italian-German actress and model Anita Pallenberg died. She was a style icon and one of the 'it-girls' of the 1960s. Pallenberg was the lover of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones, and...
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Aleksey Batalov (1928-2017)
On Thursday 15 June 2017, Russian actor and director Aleksey Batalov passed away in his hometown Moscow. He played positive and noble characters in several classics of the Soviet cinema such as...
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Imported from the USA: Martha Hyer
Placid blonde American actress Martha Hyer (1924-2014) was once labelled 'Universal's answer to Grace Kelly'. She appeared in many well known Hollywood movies of the 1950s. During the 1960s, she also...
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Marika Rökk
Egyptian-born singer, dancer and actress of Hungarian descent Marika Rökk (1913-2004) was the last film diva of the Ufa. She was an immensely talented musical performer who could tap with the rhythm...
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Vele ammainate (1931)
Vele ammainate/Lowered Sails (Anton Giulio Bragaglia, 1931) is an early Italian sound film, produced by Cines-Pittaluga. Dria Paola starred in this melodrama, which lacked a good script but had...
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Maureen Swanson
Scottish actress Maureen Swanson (1932) was a pretty, elegant, brunette leading lady in British films of the 1950s. After her marriage in 1961, she retired and in 1969 she became Countess of...
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Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf (1915-1963) is a cultural icon and is universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her ballads, like La Vie en rose (1946) and Non, je ne regrette rien (1960), reflected her...
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In memory of Ad Werner (1925-2017)
On 17 June 2017, Dutch graphic designer Ad Werner passed away at the age of 92 years. Werner's letter designs and figurative marks are world-famous. He designed the logo for Quick and the Mexican for...
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A hundred years ago: 12 film star postcards of 1917
Bon giorno! We're in Bologna at Il Cinema Ritrovato. Till 2 July, all EFSP posts will highlight festival sections and today we start with the section A hundred years ago: 50 films of 1917. It contains...
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Louise Brooks
Legendary dancer and film actress Louise Brooks (1906-1985) set the trend of the bobbed haircut and personified the 'flapper', the rebellious young woman of the 1920s. Brooks played the lead in three...
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Robert Mitchum
At Il Cinema Ritrovato, Robert Mitchum (1917–1997) is the subject of the section Two Faces of Robert Mitchum. The American actor is one of the icons of Hollywood thanks to his roles as tough guys,...
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Marcello Mastroianni
We're in Italy at Il Cinema Ritrovato and today we feature Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996), Italy's favourite leading man of the second half of the 20th century. In his long and prolific career, he...
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Simone Simon
We're in Bologna for Il Cinema Ritrovato, where one of the interesting festival sections this year is Colette and Cinema. The activities in the field of cinema of this 'monumental figure of French...
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Helmut Käutner
Watchful Dreamer: The Subversive Melancholia of Helmut Käutner is the name of an Il Cinema Ritrovato's section about one the most influential and acclaimed directors of the German post-war cinema....
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Rubi Dalma
One of the programmes at Il Cinema Ritrovato we follow is Augusto Genina: an Italian in Europe. Augusto Genina (1892-1957) is one of the most cosmopolitan directors of Italian film history. Interesting...
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