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Jane Birkin
In the Swinging Sixties, shy, awkward-looking British actress Jane Birkin (1946) made a huge international splash as one of the nude models in Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966). In France she became the muse...
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Eine Nacht in der Stahlkammer (1917)
The German silent cinema knew many popular detective films like the Joe Deebs serial or the Sherlock Holmes adaptations. Another example is Eine Nacht in der Stahlkammer/A Night in the Steel Chamber...
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Siegfried Rauch (1932-2018)
On 11 March 2018, popular German film and television actor Siegfried Rauch (1932) has died. In the 1970s, he appeared in several international films. He has been an actor for over 60 years, in...
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Cox
In Belgium a series of film star cards was published by Cox, an Import-Export firm. The series was produced in the 1950s and is remarkable because the cards have pictures at both sides. At the front is...
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Oleg Tabakov (1935-2018)
On 12 March 2018, Soviet and Russian actor Oleg Tabakov (1935) passed away. Tabakov performed in both classic and modern plays and was artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre. His film career was...
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Ray Danton
American actor Ray Danton (1931-1992) was a handsome and smooth natured leading man who often played oily individuals in Hollywood film and TV series. He also worked in Europe where he directed some...
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Renate Blume
German actress Renate Blume (1944) appeared in more than 70 films and television shows since 1964. Her film debut Der geteilte Himmel/Divided Heaven (Konrad Wolf, 1964) was an international success and...
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Luchino Visconti
Today, at the Royal Dutch institute in Rome, the presentation will take place of Reframing Luchino Visconti: film and art, a monograph written by EFSP-contributor Ivo Blom and published by Sidestone...
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Die Richterin (1917)
In the silent German melodrama Die Richterin/The Judge (Paul von Woringen, 1917), Lotte Neumann stars as a young woman who brings tragedy to her fiance and herself by being a moral judge. Neumann...
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John Mills
Sir John Mills (1908-2005) was one of the most popular and beloved English actors. The Oscar-winner appeared in more than 120 films and TV films in a career stretching over eight decades. He often...
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Special David di Donatello Award for Stefania Sandrelli
On 21 March 2018, Stefania Sandrelli (1946) received the special prize at the 62nd edition of the David di Donatello awards, the Italian equivalent of the Oscars. She received the statuette by TV host...
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Fotocelere
Several of the postcards of the divas of the Italian silent cinema were published by a company in Torino (Turin), Fotocelere. From 1908 on, Fotocelere published thousands of postcards in a wide range...
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Lys Assia (1924-2018)
Yesterday, Saturday 24 March 2018, Swiss singer and actress Lys Assia has passed away. She was the winner of the very first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. The sparkling and beautiful grande dame of...
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Ronald Colman
Elegant British actor Ronald Colman (1891-1958) was a top box office draw in Hollywood films as the archetypal English gentleman throughout the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. ‘The man with the velvet voice’...
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Anita Dorris
Beautiful German leading lady Anita Dorris (1903-1993) started as a stage actress in 1921, after which some 15 silent films followed. Dorris was beloved in the late 1920s and smoothly made the passage...
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Halkas Gelöbnis (1918)
Lya Mara was the star in the German silent melodrama Halkas Gelöbnis/Halka's Vow (1918). Her co-star was the young Hans Albers, in his first film role. Alfred Halm directed the film under his regular...
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Stéphane Audran
On 27 March 2018, French film and television actress Stéphane Audran (1932-2018) passed away. The cool and aristocratic looking star was known for her performances in Oscar winning films such as Le...
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Rizzoli
During the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini, Rizzoli in Milan was one of the most prominent publishers of film star postcards in Italy. Director was Angelo Rizzoli, who also was a film producer. For...
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Franco Andrei
Italian actor Franco Andrei (1925) played the hunky Latin lover in German and Italian comedies of the 1950s. In the 1960s, he appeared as a secret agent in several Eurospy-films and in the TV series...
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Egon von Jordan
Handsome Austrian actor Egon von Jordan (1902-1978) appeared in 85 films between 1923 and 1974. The elegant gentleman was a star in German and Austrian silent films, but later he merely appeared in...
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