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Linda Moglia
Linda Moglia (1896-?) was an Italian actress of the silent screen, who peaked in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Her biggest role was that of Roxane in Cirano di Bergerac (Augusto Genina, 1923).Italian...
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Die Sieger (1918)
We continue our irregular series of film specials. Today, we chose for a silent melodrama of one of the three great German divas of the silent cinema, Henny Porten. The sturdy and blond actress is the...
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Margaret Lee
Cool and beautiful Margaret Lee (1943) posed as a glamorous starlet for many international magazines throughout the 1960s. Between 1962 and 1983 the British born actress co-starred in over 70 European...
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Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst, Part 2
We continue our series of posts on the collectors cards Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst which Ross Verlag produced for the 'Cigaretten-Bilderdienst', Altona-Bahrenfeld in 1935. The cards were included...
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Rose Liechtenstein
Rose Liechtenstein (1887-1955) was a German theatre and film actress of the silent film era. Later she became 'the Adele Sandrock of the Israeli'.German postcard by Photochemie, Berlin, no. K. 2351....
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Imperio Argentina
For the new issue of the international magazine The Italianist, film historian Ivo Blom wrote an article on the production of the film Tosca (1941), a curious and intriguing case in film history. It...
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Christine Norden
Blonde, green-eyed bombshell Christine Norden (1924-1988) was Britain’s first post-war screen sex goddess. The ex-dancer, actress and singer won in the late 1940s and early 1950s two prestigious film...
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Ernest Torrence
Big, burly Scottish-born character actor Ernest Torrence (1878-1933) appeared in many Hollywood films form 1916 on. A towering figure, he frequently played cold-eyed and imposing heavies, but played...
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Naufragio (1916)
Italian child star Ermanno Roveri (1903-1968) played the lead in the silent melodrama Naufragio (Umberto Paradisi, 1916). Naufragio was part of a series of films based on the stories in Cuore (1886) by...
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Miriam Jordan
Beautiful, British Miriam 'Mimi' Jordan (1904-1987) enjoyed a brief career in Hollywood as a leading lady during the early 1930s. Her best known films are Sherlock Holmes (1932) and I Loved You...
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Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst, Part 3
In the early 1920s, the Weimar Republic faced numerous problems, including hyperinflation and political extremism. But the German film industry thrived and seemed to produce an endless stream of silent...
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Harry Hardt
Austrian actor Harry Hardt (1899-1980) had a long career both in films and on television. He was a popular and extremely busy character player, who was generally cast as authority figures: police...
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Ruth Niehaus
Attractive Ruth Niehaus (1925–1994) was a German stage and film actress, who often played the femme fatale or 'the other woman’. She was dubbed the ‘Rita Hayworth of the German film of the 1950s’ and...
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Evelyn Künneke
German singer, dancer and actress Evelyn Künneke (1921-2001) was the last survivor of the Lili Marleen generation. Although the Nazis did not like it, she brought tap dance and swing to Germany in the...
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Klaus-Peter Thiele
German actor Klaus-Peter Thiele (1940-2011) was well-known for his film debut in the DEFA production Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt/The Adventures of Werner Holt (1965).East-German postcard by VEB...
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Il piccolo scrivano fiorentino (1915)
Last week we did a post on the Italian silent film Naufragio/Shipwreck (Umberto Paradisi, 1915). Like Naufragio, Il piccolo scrivano fiorentino/The little scribe from Florence (Leopoldo Carlucci, 1915)...
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Jerry Lewis (1926-2017)
Legendary American comedian, actor and director Jerry Lewis, who died this week at 91, scored in just about every branch of show business: nightclubs, radio, television, concerts, films and records....
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Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst, Part 4
Women are central in the fourth post on our (incomplete) series of collectors cards of Vom Werden deutscher Filmkunst. Ross Verlag published this collectors card series in 1935 for the...
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Margot Hielscher (1919-2017)
Last Monday, 20 August, German singer, film actress and costume designer Margot Hielscher (1919-2017) passed away. She appeared in 60 films and 200 TV productions. Hielscher also represented Germany...
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Nicole Besnard (1928-2017)
French actress Nicole Besnard died on 20 August 2017. She appeared in several French films of the 1950s, including the classic La Beauté du diable (1950) by René Clair.German postcard. Photo: Prisma....
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