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Marta Toren
At Il Cinema Ritrovato, a highlight in the programme section Augusto Genina: an Italian in Europe is the highly acclaimed drama Maddalena/Magdalene (Augusto Genina, 1954). The title role is performed...
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Pierre Batcheff
Today is the final day of Il Cinema Ritrovato. We finish our festival series with a post on French film actor Pierre Batcheff (1901-1932), who stars in Les amours de minuit/The Lovers of Midnight...
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Hanni Weisse
German actress Hanni Weisse (1892-1967) belonged to the great film divas of the early German silent film. She was able to maintain her stardom till the late 1920s.German postcard in the Film Sterne...
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Sophie Hardy
Sexy French starlet Sophie Hardy (1944) was a popular pin-up in the mid-1960s. She was often pictured by glamour photographer Bruno Bernard, better known as Bernard of Hollywood. First the blonde...
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Anita Björk
Swedish actress Anita Björk was a leading lady of the Swedish theatre with more than 80 roles. Björk repeatedly worked for Ingmar Bergman, both onstage and onscreen. The slender, dark-haired beauty...
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Etchika Choureau
The film career of French actress Etchika Choureau (1929) started very promising with three films and an award in 1953. During the 1950s the beauty with the green eyes and long blond hair graced films...
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Maria Andergast
Brunette, dark-eyed Austrian actress Maria Andergast (1912-1995) appeared in more than 60 films between 1934 and 1974. Nicknamed 'Mariandl' (after her biggest hit song), she starred in operettas,...
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Otto Gebühr
German actor Otto Gebühr (1877-1954) appeared in 102 films between 1917 and 1962. He is best known for his interpretation of Friedrich II (Frederick the Great), a role he played in 16 films and...
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Margit Saad
German actress Margit Saad (1929) was a mysterious, exotic beauty, who worked largely in German film and television. During the 1960s, she also made occasional English-language appearances. German...
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Anneliese Uhlig (1918-2017)
On 17 June 2017, German actress Anneliese Uhlig passed away at the age of 98. She was an elegant and enchanting femme fatale of Ufa crime films of the 1940s. The classic beauty unwillingly bewitched...
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Alexander Girardi
Austrian comedian, character actor and tenor Alexander Girardi (1850-1918) was famous for his roles in plays by Ferdinand Raimund as well as for his performance of comic roles in operettas by Johann...
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Elsa Martinelli (1935-2017)
On 8 July 2017, glamorous Italian actress and former fashion model Elsa Martinelli (1935) has died. She showed her beautiful curves in many European and Hollywood productions of the 1950s and 1960s,...
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Sandra Milo
Italian actress Sandra Milo (1933) is best known for her roles in Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963) and Giulietta degli spiriti/Juliet of the Spirits (1965), but she also worked with the famous directors...
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Evelyn Holt
Evelyn Holt (1908-2001) was a highly popular German film actress in the late silent and the early sound era. The rise of the Nazis finished her blossoming film career.German postcard by Ross Verlag,...
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Regina Beyer
German actress Regina Beyer (1947) starred in many DEFA films of the 1960s and 1970s, but she became most popular with her TV appearances for the East-German Television (DFF). She also worked for the...
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Hans Moser
Austrian actor Hans Moser (1880–1964) appeared in over 150 films. During his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, he became very popular as the mumbling factotum in comedy films. Moser was...
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Margaret Rung
Beautiful blond Danish showgirl Margaret Rung (1933) appeared in supporting and small parts in French films of the late 1950s. Her main claim to fame was dating former King Farouk of Egypt, shortly...
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Maria Orska
Maria Orska (1893-1930) was a Russian-Jewish actress of the German stage and screen in the 1910s and 1920s. She was a darling of the public, but became the talk of Berlin when she became a morphine...
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Anne Golon (1921-2017)
On 14 July 2017, French author Anne Golon (1921-2017) passed away. She and her husband Serge were well known for a wildly popular series of historic novels about an irresistibly beautiful and untamable...
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Martin Landau (1928-2017)
On 15 July 2017, American character actor Martin Landau (1928-2017) died. In the 1960s, he was popular for his role as the agent and master of disguise Rollin Hand on the TV series Mission: Impossible...
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