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Pascale Roberts
French actress Pascale Roberts (1933) is active in the French cinema and television since 1954. From her femme fatale parts in B-thrillers and comedies in the 1950s, she grew into mother roles. She is...
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Alibert
French singer, actor and librettist Henri Allibert (1889-1951), known as Alibert, was the Marseille singer par excellence. During the 1930s and 1940s, he starred in his own very popular operettas both...
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Twelve 1950s postcards from Italy
When we were in Bologna for Il Cinema Ritrovato, we found some sunny and glamorous Italian postcards of the 1950s at the Mostra of the festival. Today we like to share some of these new acquisitions...
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Armand Bernard
Armand Bernard (1893-1968) was a French actor, composer and band leader. With his heavy diction and his air of dignity he brought a comical note to many French comedies.French postcard by Cinémagazine...
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Maria Cebotari
Celebrated Romanian soprano and actress Maria Cebotari (1910-1949) was one of Europe's greatest opera stars in the 1930s and 1940s. Especially her interpretations of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus...
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Claude Rich (1929-2017)
On Thursday 20 July 2017, French actor Claude Rich passed away. He played in at least fifty plays and around 80 films, among them the cult classic Les Tontons flingueurs/Crooks in Clover (1963)...
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Carl Clewing
German actor Carl Clewing (1884-1954) was also an opera singer, the composer of the song Alle Tage ist kein Sonntag (Every Day Isn't Sunday) and a music professor in Berlin. During the years of the...
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Grete Weixler
Grete Weixler (ca. 1900 - after 1922) was a German actress of the silent cinema. From 1914 on, she appeared in secondary roles in melodramas by directors like Carl Boese, Friedrich Zelnik and Lupu...
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Iván Petrovich
Handsome Iván Petrovich (1894-1962) was the first actor of Yugoslav origin to have a successful international film career. He started his career after the First World War with silent Hungarian films...
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Twelve postcards from Brighton
Last Saturday, we had a post with twelve sunny and glamorous Italian postcards of the 1950s which we acquired during our trip to Italy. Today we like to share twelve new acquisitions we found a week...
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Folco Lulli
Acclaimed Italian film actor Folco Lulli (1912–1970) appeared in 104 films between 1946 and 1970, mainly in strong character roles. He was very active in both Italian and French cinema. Now he is best...
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Kai Fischer
Red-haired and spirited German actress Kai Fischer (1934) has appeared in 54 films between 1955 and 2004. She was the naughty bad girl of the Wirtschaftwunder cinema, and also appeared in sexy roles in...
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Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017)
French actress Jeanne Moreau, one of biggest stars of the European cinema, has died today at the age of 89. Moreau was found dead at her home in Paris. The legendary film star was the personification...
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Jean-Claude Bouillon (1941-2017)
Monday 31 July 2017 was a black day for the French cinema. Not only Jeanne Moreau but also French actor Jean Claude Bouillon passed away. He appeared in more than eighty films from 1966 until 2015. In...
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Mathieu Carrière
Handsome German actor Mathieu Carrière (1950) had his breakthrough at 16 in Volker Schlöndorf’s Der junge Törless/Young Törless (1966). In the 1970s and 1980s he appeared in many French arthouse films...
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Claire Bloom
Becoming and dark-haired Claire Bloom (1931) is a British actress whose photogenic, slightly pinched beauty was accented by an effortless elegance and poise. Her part in Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight...
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Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst, Part 1
Recently, we acquired at eBay a package with collectors cards by Ross Verlag called Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst. The title translates as From the becoming of German film art. Some of the cards are...
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Silent films from 100 years ago discovered at recycling centre
In the British town of Sidmouth in Devon, a dozen of rare silent films has been discovered recently in a dumped shelf unit at a recycling centre. Film buffs Mike Grant and his daughter Rachel found the...
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Ty Hardin (1930-2017)
On 3 August 2017, blonde American actor Ty Hardin (1930) passed away. He was probably best known as hunky TV cowboy Bronco and this fame lead to several film appearances in Hollywood and Italy.Spanish...
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Diana Wynyard
Elegant and aristocratic British actress Diana Wynyard (1906-1964) was a leading lady on the London stage. She was the first British actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, but...
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