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Jean Murat
French actor Jean Murat (1888-1968) became a star as a handsome young soldier in silent films of the 1920s. Later, he appeared in such classic French films as La Kermesse Heroique (1935) and L'Eternel...
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Painted by Tito Corbella
Tito Corbella (1885-1966) sure knew how to paint a woman sensuously! The Italian illustrator, commercial artist and painter portrayed several divas of the Italian cinema of the 1910s, and their...
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Rocco Granata
Rocco Granata (1938) is a Belgian-Italian singer and an occasional actor. In 1959, he had an international smash hit with the song Marina. He toured the world and even performed at Carnegie Hall in New...
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Paola Barbara
Paola Barbara (1912-1989) was an Italian actress who acted in over 60 films, but also worked on stage and for television. She is best known for the film La peccatrice/The Sinner (1940) by Amleto...
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Eleuterio Rodolfi
Eleuterio Rodolfi (1876-1933) was an Italian actor, director and scriptwriter, who was highly active in the Italian silent cinema. Italian postcard.Often Hinting At Forbidden Fruits And...
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Bernadette Lafont (1938-2013)
French actress Bernadette Lafont (1938-2013) died Thursday aged 74. She appeared in several classics of the Nouvelle Vague. Original and full of contradictions, she was both sexy and rather plain,...
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Odile Versois
Delicately beautiful French actress Odile Versois (1930-1980) was the older sister of Marina Vlady. She appeared in some 50 European film and television productions between 1948 and 1980.French...
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Maxwell Reed
Tall, dark and handsome Maxwell Reed (1919-1974) was a British actor who was trained at the Rank's ‘charm school’. During the late 1940s, he became a teen idol in Britain, and he would be Joan Collins’...
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Al Bano
Italian pop singer Al Bano (1943) is also known as an opera tenor, as an actor and as a winemaker. For about 30 years, he formed Italy`s most popular singing duo with his ex-wife, Romina Power. They...
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Campari
Campari is a dark red-coloured apertivo, introduced in Italy in the 1860s by Gaspare Campari. A bitter, which is obtained from the infusion of herbs and fruit (including chinotto and cascarilla) in...
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Maria Grazia Buccella
Sexy Italian film Actress Maria Grazia Buccella (1940) was a former glamour model and Miss Italy contestant (1959). She was the busty and a bit dizzy beauty in many Italian comedies of the 1960s and...
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Marisol
Marisol (1948) was a Spanish child star of the 1960s. When she became an adult she stayed a popular actress and singer under her real name, Pepa Flores. Dutch postcard.Spanish postcard by Ediciones...
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Tina Aumont
Although lovely and tragic Tina Aumont (1946–2006) was born in Hollywood, she mostly filmed in her country of adoption, Italy. With her dark and soulful eyes she became a flamboyant, rebellious star of...
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Edith Jéhanne
French actress Edith Jéhanne (1902-?) is known for two classic silent films, Le Joueur d'échecs/The Chess player (Raymond Bernard, 1927) and Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney/The Love of Jeanne Ney (Georg...
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Camillo De Riso
Camillo De Riso (1854-1924) was an Italian actor and director of the Italian stage and silent screen. He was famous for his comic acting and directing at the film companies Ambrosio, Gloria and Caesar....
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Rita Pavone
Rita Pavone (1945) was one of the biggest teenage stars in Europe during the 1960s, and one of the few Italian pop stars to gain a foothold in the American market. Pavone also starred in several...
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Maharadjahens Yndlingshustru/The Maharaja’s Favourite Wife
Maharadjahens Yndlingshustru/The Maharaja’s Favourite Wife (Robert Dinesen, Svend Gade, 1917) was a Danish orientalist melodrama produced by the Nordisk studio. The stars were Gunnar Tolnaes and Lily...
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Dranem
Dranem (1869-1935) was a French comic singer, music hall, stage and film actor. He started film career with silent shorts for Pathé Frères and played in a series of early sound films by Alice Guy. In...
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Vince Taylor
British ‘Rebel Rocker’ Vince Taylor (1939-1991) was successful - especially in France - during the late 1950s and early 1960s. His trademark was his black leather stage gear and his large Joan of Arc...
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Aud Egede Nissen
Norwegian film actress Aud Egede Nissen (1893-1974) was a star of the German silent cinema. During the 1910s, she produced dozens of her own films. In the 1930s she returned to Norway, where she...
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