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Die Austernprinzessin (1919)
In his early European films, director Ernst Lubitsch alternated between escapist comedies and large-scale historical dramas, enjoying great international success with both. A triumph was Die...
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Max Linder
French comedian Max Linder (1883-1925), with his trademark silk hat, stick and moustache, was an influential pioneer of the silent film. He was largely responsible for the creation of the classic...
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ISV
During the 1950s and 1960s, German publisher Ilse-Stern-Verlag better known as ISV produced many film star postcards both in black and white and in colour. Very popular were ISV's postcard series of...
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Pauline Brunius
In the first decades of the 20th century, Pauline Brunius (1881-1954) was the Queen of the Swedish stage. For a number of years, she also focused on film acting and directing. Later she became the...
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Rolf von Goth
Handsome German film actor Rolf von Goth (1906-1981) appeared in minor roles in several silent films such as Fritz Lang’s s epic Metropolis (1927). In the late 1920s, he emerged as a prominent actor in...
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Sabine Bethmann
German film actress Sabine Bethmann (1931) is best known for Fritz Langs’s Der Tiger von Eschnapur (1959) and the sequel Das Indische Grabmal (1959), together known as 'Fritz Lang's Indian Epic'.German...
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Oscar Marion
Austrian actor Oscar Marion (1894-1986) was a popular star of the German cinema in the silent era and the 1930s. During the 1940s and 1950s, he worked as a production manager.Austrian postcard by Iris...
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Das Maskenfest des Lebens (1918)
Henny Porten and Bruno Decarli are the stars of the German silent drama Das Maskenfest des Lebens/The Masquerade of Life (Rudolf Biebrach, 1918). It was produced by Messter Film. Rotophot produced a...
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Daniel Craig
Blonde and blue-eyes English actor Daniel Craig (1968) is best known as the sixth James Bond. He appeared as the British secret agent in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012)...
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Kunst und Bild
Since 1930 Kunst und Bild (Art and Image) or KuB is one of Germany's leading publishers of postal and greeting cards. During the 1950s, the Berlin company published many film star postcards, often in...
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Folke Sundquist
Swedish actor Folke Sundquist (1925-2009) appeared in 21 films between 1951 and 1968. He often worked with the directors Arne Mattson and Ingmar Bergman.German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, no. 773....
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Jacqueline Francell
During the 1930s and 1940s, Jacqueline Francell (1908-1962) was a popular star of the French operetta. She also appeared in operas at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and in 1930, she created the role...
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Who is Souricette?
Recently, I bought this little cigarette card (4 by 6 cm; 1.7 by 2.7 inch) and wondered if the Souricette on the picture could be French actress Musidora (1889-1957). With her heavily kohled dark eyes,...
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Leni Riefenstahl estate donated to Berlin foundation
The Berlin-based Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) has been bequeathed photos, films, manuscripts and letters that belonged to film maker Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003)....
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Edelsteine (1918)
At the end of the First World War, German diva Henny Porten played the lead in the melodrama Edelsteine/Gems (Rudolf Biebrach, 1918) for Messter Film. Rotophot made in its Film Sterne series these...
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One Hundred Million views for Bob, Truus & Jan Too!
Last Night, we counted the 100.000.000th view for our sibling site Truus, Bob & Jan Too! at Flickr. Like many others we discovered social media around 2005 and started to upload our pictures at...
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Förlag Nordisk Konst
In 1911, the Swedish cinema rose to international prominence when Svenska Biografteatern moved from Kristianstad to Lidingö. During the next decade the company's two star-directors, Victor Sjöström and...
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James Dean
This thursday started the Roze Filmdagen (Pink Film Days) in Amsterdam, the largest film festival for LGBTQ films in the Netherlands. One of the films on the programme is the French comedy Ma vie avec...
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Gabriel de Gravone
Gabriel de Gravone (1887-1972) was an actor of the French silent cinema. He is best known as Élie, the son of Sisif (Séverin-Mars) in Abel Gance’s La Roue (1920-1923).French postcard by...
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Enrique Iglesias
Athletic and sexy Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias (1975) is widely regarded as the King of Latin Pop. He started his career in the mid-1990s and has since then sold over 159 million records worldwide,...
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