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Susannah York
Lovely and free-spirited English film, stage and television actress Susannah York (1939-2011) epitomised the sensuality of the swinging Sixties. Her appearances in various hit films of the 1960s formed...
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Nina Hagen
German singer, songwriter, and actress Nina Hagen (1955) is known for her theatrical vocals and is often referred to as the ‘Godmother of Punk due to her prominence during the punk and new wave...
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Victor Boucher
Victor Boucher (1877–1942) was a French stage and screen actor, who was popular as a comedian of the early French sound cinema.French postcard by A.N., Paris, no. 510. Photo: G.L. Manuel Frères. French...
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Monika Gabriel
German actress Monika Gabriel (1943-2007) was known for her many DEFA films and her appearances in TV series in East-Germany. From 1971, she worked in West-Germany, mainly for television.East-German...
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Johnny Hallyday (1943-2017)
The father of French Rock and Roll is dead. Flamboyant singer and actor Johnny Hallyday (1943-2017) passed away yesterday, 6 December. He was a European teen idol in the 1960s with record-breaking...
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De Reszke Cigarettes
We continue our Saturday posts on British film postcard series with De Reszke postcards. De Reske was a, now forgotten, British cigarette brand. It was named after Jean de Reszke (1850-1925), a famous...
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Ulli Lommel (1944-2017)
German actor and director Ulli Lommel (1944-2017) died of cardiac arrest on 2 December. He was one of the most consistently creative filmmakers to come from the New German Cinema movement. Lommel was...
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Fesseln (1918)
German actress, writer and producer Hedda Vernon was the star of the Eiko Film production Fesseln/Chains (Hubert Moest, 1918). During the 1910s, she was such a popular film star in Germany that she got...
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Alla Larionova
Beautiful Russian stage and film actress Alla Larionova (1931-2000) was one of the most popular stars of the Soviet cinema of the 1950s. She was known for such films as the Fairy-tale Sadko (1952),...
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Hermann Brix
Hermann Brix (1912-1982) was an Austrian actor and theatre and radio play author. Between 1939 and 1944 he starred in many Terra films. He should not be confused with the American actor Herman Brix...
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Suzanna Leigh (1945-2017)
On 11 December 2017, blonde British actress Suzanna Leigh (1945-2017) passed away. She was known for her film and television roles in the 1960s and 1970s, including Hammer horror films and a Hawaii...
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Ciceruacchio (1915)
During the First World War, several countries started to make propaganda films. In Italy, Tiber Film produced the historical propaganda film Ciceruacchio (Emilio Ghione, 1915).Italian postcard for...
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Rotary Photo
The British Rotary Photographic Co. Ltd was active in London between 1897 and 1916. It was a huge publisher of real photographic postcards. Real photographic cards were actual photographs produced from...
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Ursula Andress
Stunning Swiss sex symbol, starlet and jet-setter Ursula Andress (1936) will always be remembered as the first and quintessential Bond girl. In Dr. No (1962) she made film history when she...
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Lilian Constantini
Lilian Constantini (1902-1982) was a French dancer and actress, before marrying industrialist Charles Schneider. During the silent film ear, she often worked with director Jacques Robert.French...
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Régina Badet
During the Belle Epoque, French dancer and actress Régina Badet (1876-1949) was a star of the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She also had a career in the French silent cinema.French postcard in the Les...
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Regimantas Adomaitis
Regimantas Adomaitis (1937) is a Lithuanian film and stage actor. He is known in Russia, Germany, and other countries besides Lithuania.Soviet collectors card. Photo: publicity still for Poterjannyj...
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Heinrich George
Huge, bear-like Heinrich George (1893–1946) was a famous German stage and film actor of the Weimar republic. He starred in such classics as Metropolis (1926) and Berlin Alexanderplatz (1931). Under the...
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Erotikon (1920)
One of the highlights of the Scandinavian silent cinema is the Swedish film Erotikon/Bounds That Chafe (1920) directed by Mauritz Stiller for Svensk Filmindustri. Erotikon surely pushed the boundaries...
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Valentine's Postcards
Valentine’s Co. (1825-1963) was one of the largest postcard publishers in the early 1900s. It's thought that more than a million photographs were taken for the company. Ada Reeve. British postcard in...
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