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Lidiya Ryndina
Russian actress and author Lidya Ryndina (1884-1957) was with Vera Kholodnaya, and Vera Karalli one of the three major film divas of the Russian silent cinema during the Imperial era. After the Russian...
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Little Moritz
In the years 1910-1912, Maurice Schwartz (?-?) was an internationally popular Pathé comedian, known as Little Moritz. He came from the German music-hall and worked for Pathé, where Roméo Bosetti and...
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Let's Get Married!
This week, 15 years ago, we got married. Ivo and I. And 15 years earlier we fell in love. For 30 years, we share our passion for film, and this blog can be described as our love baby of which we are...
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Claudia Lebail
Beautiful Claudia Lebail was a French starlet and Playboy model of the 1960s.German postcard by Krüger, no. 902/391. Photo: Gérard Decaux.Girl of the RivieraAccording to IMDb, the sweet girl in the...
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Les Vedettes de Cinéma
Last Saturday and the week before, EFSP posted two French postcard series published by Éditions Filma shortly after the First World War: Les Vedettes du Cinéma and Les Vedettes de l'écran. Today, we...
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Germaine Dermoz
Germaine Dermoz (1888–1966) was a French film and theatre actress of the early-to-mid twentieth century. She is most famous for her portrayal of Madame Beudet in Germaine Dulac's avant-garde film La...
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David Farrar
English stage and film actor David Farrar (1908-1995) with his dark and rather sinister good looks gained fame in the 1940s playing Sexton Blake in a pair of low-budget thrillers. Three of his most...
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Valérie Lagrange
After a successful career, French star, singer, actress, author and writer-composer Valérie Lagrange (1942) retired from the mainstream show business and appeared in several counter culture films of...
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Georg Thomalla
German actor Georg Thomalla (1915-1999) was one of the most popular and prolific character comedians of the post-war German cinema. Thomalla was also known in Germany for dubbing Peter Sellers as...
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Der Ring der drei Wünsche (1918)
Famous stage actor Alexander Moissi played in Der Ring der drei Wünsche (Arthur Wellin, 1918) a hunchback who obtains a wishing ring: youth, beauty and health. Moissi's co-actors were Ria Jende and...
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Hilde Wörner
Hilde Wörner (1895-1963) was a German stage and film actress, who also worked as a filmmaker. She appeared mainly in silent films, had her own series and her most notable film was Ernst Lubitsch’s Die...
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Edition Pathé Frères (1)
The last three Saturdays, EFSP had posts on French postcard series like Les Vedettes du Cinéma. Today, we present you cartes postales by Edition Pathé Frères. Four brothers, Charles, Émile, Théophile...
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Romuald Joubé
Today, EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam presents the French silent film La Chèvre aux pieds d'or/The Goat with the Golden Feet (Jacques Robert, 1925), vaguely inspired by the biography of Mata Hari. The...
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Henry Stuart
Henry Stuart (1885-1942) was a British-Swiss actor, director and writer, who was very successful in the German silent cinema.German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1946/1, 1927-1928. Photo:...
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Hermann Vallentin
German actor and singer Hermann Vallentin (1872-1945) appeared in many silent films of E.A. Dupont and W.F. Murnau. The takeover of the Nazis abruptly ended his film career - Vallentin was...
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Anny Duperey
French actress Anny Duperey (1947) is known for her stage, film and television roles, but she is also a best-selling author. Duperey is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.Romanian postcard by Casa...
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Brad Harris (1933-2017
On 7 November 2017, American stuntman and actor Brad Harris passed away. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was one of the muscular action heroes of the European cinema and he played in about 50 Peplums,...
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Romanticismo (1915)
The Italian silent film Romanticismo (Carlo Campogalliani, Arrigo Frusta, 1915) was a production of Società Anonima Ambrosio, based on a famous play by Gerolamo Rovetta. Romanticismo was the film debut...
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Editions Pathé Frères (2)
Last Saturday, EFSP did a post on an early series by Edition Pathé Frères of black and white postcards, made just before the First World War. Today we have a series of hand-coloured postcards of the...
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Karin Dor (1938-2017)
On 6 November 2017, German leading lady Karin Dor (1938-2017) has passed away. The redheaded actress became popular in the 1960s playing heroines in Edgar Wallace and Karl May films. She was Winnetou’s...
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