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Joseph Schmidt in Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Joseph Schmidt in Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel

Vintage Austrian film programme. Illustrierter Film-Kurier, No. 948. Joseph Schmidt in the Austrian musical film Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel (Max Neufeld, 1934), also with Evi Panzner.

Joseph Schmidt (4 March 1904 – 16 November 1942) was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian Jewish tenor. From 1929 he became a popular radio tenor, made numerous records and acted in various early sound films. He fled Germany after the Nazi takeover of power, but remained a popular star in Europe, especially in the Netherlands, where his song Ik hou van Holland became a hit. In 1938 he fled Austria after the Anschluss. In 1940 he fled to France, but when in 1942 he was threatened with arrest, he illegally crossed the border to Switzerland. Here, because of ill treatment at a Zürich hospital, he died on 16 November 1942.

Lauri Volpi in Märchen von Venedig by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Lauri Volpi in Märchen von Venedig

Vintage Austrian film programme. Illustrierter Film-Kurier, No. 805. Giacomo Lauri Volpi in the film musical Märchen von Venedig/ Das Lied der Sonne/ La canzone del sole (Max Neufeld, 1934), also with Lilliane Dietz.

Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (11 December 1892 – 17 March 1979) was an Italian tenor with a lyric voice of exceptional range and technical facility.

Magda Schneider in Glück über Nacht by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Magda Schneider in Glück über Nacht

Vintage Austrian film programme. Illustrierter Film-Kurier, No. 544. Magda Schneider in the German film Glück über Nacht (Max Neufeld, 1932), also with Hermann Thimig and S.Z. Szakall (Cuddles).

German singer and actress Magda Schneider (1909-1996) is best known as the mother of film star Romy Schneider, but in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s she starred in some 40 films. First, she appeared on the screen as a charming Wiener Mädel (Viennese girl) and after the war, she often played the understanding mother or aunt.

Camilla Horn and Gustav Fröhlich in Rund um eine Million by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Camilla Horn and Gustav Fröhlich in Rund um eine Million

Vintage Austrian film programme. Illustrierter Film-Kurier, No. 792. Camilla Horn and Gustav Fröhlich in the German film Rund um eine Million (Max Neufeld, 1933).

Ethereally blonde Camilla Horn (1903-1996) was a German dancer and film star. Her breakthrough role was Gretchen in the silent film classic Faust (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1926). She also starred in some Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions.

Smart German actor Gustav Fröhlich (1902-1987) played Freder Fredersen in the classic Metropolis (1927) and became a popular star in light comedies. After the war, he tried to escape from the standard roles of a charming gentleman with the part of a doomed painter in Die Sünderin/The Sinner (1951), but the effort went down in a scandal.

Hermann Thimig in Geschäft mit Amerika by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Hermann Thimig in Geschäft mit Amerika

Vintage Austrian film programme. Illustrierter Film-Kurier, No. 374. Hermann Thimig in the German film Ein bißchen Liebe für Dich (Austrian title: Geschäft mit Amerika) (Max Neufeld, 1932), also with Magda Schneider, Lee Parry and Georg Alexander.

Austrian director and stage and film actor Hermann Thimig (1890-1982) made 99 films during six decades.

Franziska Gaal in Csibi, der Fratz by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Franziska Gaal in Csibi, der Fratz

Vintage Austrian film programme. Illustrierter Film-Kurier, No. 749. Franziska Gaal in the Austrian romantic musical film Csibi, der Fratz (Max Neufeld, 1934).

Popular Hungarian cabaret artist and theatrical actress Franziska Gaál (1904-1973) starred in several European films of the 1920s and 1930s. Later she went to Hollywood to act in Cecil B. DeMille's The Buccaneer (1938) and other films.

Clelia Matania by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Clelia Matania

Vintage Italian postcard, late 1930s/ early 1940s. ASER (A. Scarmiglia Editori, Roma), Nr. 74. Scalera. Photo by Pesce, Rome. Possibly a card for the period piece La compagnia della teppa (Corrado D'Errico, Scalera 1941), set in Napoleonic times.

Clelia Matania (1918–1981) was an Italian film and voice actress. Born in London from Neapolitan parents - her father was the painter and illustrator Fortunino Matania - she did drama school in London and started to act in her first films by the mid-1930s. When the family moved back to Italy around 1937, she started a rich career in Italian cinema in the late 1930s and the war years, starting with Partire/Departure (Amleto Palermi, 1938) with Vittorio De Sica. Several films with Palermi followed. In 1939 she had her first lead in Father for a Night/ Papà per una notte by Mario Bonnard and starring Sergio Tofano. She would often act with the De Filippo's, such as A che servono questi quattrini? (1942) and After Casanova's Fashion (/ Casanova farebbe così! (1942) , and with Totò, such as Romulus and the Sabines/ Il ratto delle sabine, Sette ore di guai (1951), Totò e le donne (1952), and L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1953). In the postwar era, Matania, now often acting as mother of one of the leading characters, had also major parts in Farewell, My Beautiful Naples/Addio, mia bella Napoli! (1946), Eleven Men and a Ball/ 11 uomini e un pallone (1948), La bisarca (1950), Stasera sciopero (1951), Luigi Zampa's Easy Years/ Anni facili (1953), etc. In later years she acted in Italo-American films (The Seven Hills of Rome, 1957; Anna of Brooklyn, 1958) and Italo-French and Italo-British coproductions filmed in Italy. She was also active as voice actress. An important late supporting part she had in the thriller Don't Look Now (Nichoals Roeg 1973) with Donald Sutherland.

Clara Sonia by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Clara Sonia

Vintage Italian postcard, late 1930s/ early 1940s. ASER (A. Scarmiglia Editori, Roma), Nr. 013. EIAR. Photo by Dinami & Malandrini.

Little is known about Clara Sonia. In the early 1940s she was a vaudeville singer in Italy, who also sang on the radio.

Franca Belli by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Franca Belli

Vintage Italian postcard, late 1930s/ early 1940s. ASER (A. Scarmiglia Editori, Roma), Nr. 115. Photo by Venturini, Rome. The card may refer to Belli's debut in Amore imperiale (1941), which evolves during the 18th century Russian Empire.

Franca Belli (1918-2012), originally Franca Phelan, was an Italian film actress, who acted in three films in the 1940s. Belli, born in Catania, Sicily on 2 May 1918, married set designer Boris Bilinsky in Florence in 1936. They had a daughter Valeria (1939-1996). After Bilinsky's death in 1948, Belli and her daughter moved first to Spain and in 1953 to France. Belli died on 6 June 2012, in Melun, France due to Alzheimer's disease.

Belli debuted on screen in 1941 in a supporting part in Amore imperiale by Alexander Volkoff, starring Luisa Ferida and Claudio Gora. In 1943 she had another supporting part in La storia di una capinera by Gennaro Righelli, with Marina Berti and again Gora in the leads. After the war, she acted in 1948 as Vittorio De SIca's wife in the war drama Lo sconosciuto di San Marino by Michal Waszynski.

Réjane [?] in Le Joug by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane [?] in Le Joug

Vintage French postcard. Vaudeville. Photo by Reutlinger, Paris. S.I.P., 197/11. The card mentions this is Réjane in Le Joug, yet the woman depicted doesn't look a lot like Réjane. Le Joug by Albert Guinon and Jane Marny was first performed on 28 November 1902 at the Théâtre du Vaudeville (Paris).

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Réjane by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane

Vintage French postcard. Card mailed to Oran, 1907, but the photo may be older, rather 1890s. Réjane in leg of mutton sleeves.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Gertie Millar by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Gertie Millar

Vintage postcard, probably German by C.B.N.St., series 17-6 Dess., no. 7773. Mailed in Lillebonne, France, 25-4-1905.

Gertie Millar, born Gertrude Millar, married name Gertrude Ward, Countess of Dudley (Manningham, 21 February 1879 - Chiddingfold, 25 April 1952), was an English actress and singer, who peaked on the British stage in the 1900s.

Gertie Millar by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Gertie Millar

Vintage British postcard. Empire Series, London, No. 28. Printed in Berlin.

Gertie Millar, born Gertrude Millar, married name Gertrude Ward, Countess of Dudley (Manningham, 21 February 1879 - Chiddingfold, 25 April 1952), was an English actress and singer, who peaked on the British stage in the 1900s.

Sémiramis by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Sémiramis

Vintage French postcard. Card 11 (of 12). Stage play Sémiramis by Joseph Peladan, starring Segond-Weber, Act 1, Semiramis with the banner of her legions. Photo-ed. Charles Bernheim, Nimes.

Marguerite Moreno by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Marguerite Moreno

Vintage French postcard. Series Les artistes de la "Comédie Française" dans leur loge. Raphael Tuck et Fils, Editeurs, Paris, c. 1900. The photos, though, may have been a bit older, like the 1890s.

Marguerite Moreno (1871-1948) was a famous French stage and screen actress.

Marguerite Moreno was born in Paris at the 9th arrondissement, on 15 September 1871. She was the daughter of Pierre Monceau, teacher in mathematics, and Charlotte Lucie Moreno. Moreno studied in Paris and Bretagne, then entered the Paris Conservatoire, in the class of Gustave Worms. She was engaged by the Comédie-Française in 1890, and acted on stage with the famous names of the French stage: Charles Le Bargy, Mounet-Sully, Julia Bartet, Coquelin sr., Paul Mounet. She became the «muse of the Symbolists», and poet Stéphane Mallarmé’s close friend, but nevertheless she didn’t manage to convince him to stage his Hérodiade. It was Moreno who in 1898 organised his funeral , at he church and graveyard of Samoreau près la Seine where he had his country house. After being the mistress of poet Catulle Mendès (their son would die of meningitis), Moreno married in Britain writer Marcel Schwob, on 12 September 1900. Unfortunately Schwob fell ill and died in 1905, at the age of 37.

In 1903, Marguerite Moreno left the Comédie-Française and joined the Théâtre de Sarah Bernhardt, and afterwards the Théâtre Antoine. For seven years she ran in Buenos Aires the French section of the Conservatory. When the First World War broke out, she was active at the military hospital in Nice. In 1908 she had remarried actor Jean Daragon, but she lost her second husband in 1923. From 1915, she discovered cinema. In the silent era she played together with her husband (his last part) in Vingt ans après (1922) by Henri Diamant-Berger whe she impersonated Queen Anne of Austria “under a plaster-like make-up, with ringed eyes, and a rosebud mouth”, as Olivier Barrot and Raymond Chirat wrote in Noir & Blanc: 250 acteurs du cinéma français 1930-1960 (2000). She also acted in several other films by Diamant-Berger: Paris pendant la guerre (1916), Le Mauvais garçon (1923), opposite Maurice Chevalier in Gonzague (1923), L'Accordeur (1923) and L'Emprise (1924), starring Pierre de Guingand and Pierrette Madd. In the late 1920s she also acted in films like Le Capitaine Fracasse by Alberto Cavalcanti (1929), starring Pierre Blanchar and Lien Deijers.

When sound cinema arrived in France, Moreno had an enormous increase in film roles. In 1930-1932 she played at least one film part each month, a number which slowly went down in the course of the 1930s. On instigation of her friend and soulmate, the writer Colette, Moreno had started playing comedy, and in 1920, she had had a big success on stage with Le Sexe faible by Édouard Bourdet . Here she played “ an old Slavic countess who hires beautiful boys to pass boredom”, as Maurice Martin du Gard mentioned in his Carte rouge (1930). Moreno repeated the part in the adaptation filmed by Robert Siodmak in 1933 and starring Victor Boucher. Moreno often played countesses, duchesses and queens, though she included the lower classes as well. In the interbellum years Moreno installed herself in a an estate at the Lot province. It was renovated by her cousin Pierre Moreno, who lived with her and was her lover too. Pierre was himself an actor as well, often playing with her. Moreno spread her career between the stage and the screen, and according to Barrot and Chirat, “ she accepted all that was offered her. The average spectator’s laugh at each of her performances was enough for her.” She appeared e.g. in Un trou dans le mur (1930) by René Barberis, Tout va très bien madame la marquise (1936) by Henry Wulschleger, and La Fessée (1937) by Pierre Caron.

However, Moreno was also directed by Raymond Bernard in Les Misérables (1934), where together with Charles Dullin she played the evil couple Thenardier opposite Harry Baur as Jean Valjean. She played again aristocrats in Jean Delannoy's Paris-Deauville (1933) and in La dame de pique (1937) by Fedor Ozep. She did various parts in films by Sacha Guitry: Faisons un rêve, Le Roman d'un tricheur and Le Mot de Cambronne in 1936, Les Perles de la couronne in 1937, Ils étaient neuf célibataires in 1939, and Donne-moi tes yeux in 1943. With Marcel Pagnol she played in Regain (1937) starring Fernandel, and the uncompleted film La Prière aux étoiles (1941), with Christian-Jaque in Carmen (1942) and Un revenant (1946) with Louis Jouvet, and with Claude Autant-Lara she acted in Douce (1943). In 1945, next to Jouvet, she was a giant success on stage as Aurélie in La Folle de Chaillot, written for her by Jean Giraudoux. Her last film L'assassin est à l'écoute by Raoul André was released a few weeks after her death. Marguerite Moreno died in Touzac (Lot) on 14 July 1948. Her house and estate La Source bleue (The Blue Source) in Touzac was transformed in an inn by her heirs.

Paul Valéry considered her the only one capable to recite poems, so he invited her to recite them during his courses at the Collège de France. Paul Léautaud wrote on her: “Tonight while listening to Moreno in Aricie, I was crying softly…” and “People say she is ugly, but you cannot be ugly if you have such a expressive face, and so delicate at the same time – her eyes, her nose, her mouth are so full of wit. Moreover, she has it in such a way as seldom to be found in a woman. She is female malice and satire embodied.” The Marguerite Moreno Papers were purchased by Yale University in 2009.

Sources: IMD, French Wikipedia.

Réjane in Madame Sans-Gêne by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane in Madame Sans-Gêne

Vintage French postcard. Ed. le Deley, Paris. Réjane as the laundress Catherine in Victorien Sardou's stage play Madame Sans-Gêne (1893), originally first staged at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, but here performed at the Théâtre Moncey. On this card, probably also Adolphe Candé as Lefebvre, a part he also played in the original play of 1893.

Réjane in Madame Sans-Gêne by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane in Madame Sans-Gêne

Vintage French postcard. Ed. le Deley, Paris. Réjane as the laundress Catherine in Victorien Sardou's stage play Madame Sans-Gêne (1893), originally first staged at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, but here performed at the Théâtre Moncey. The man on this card is Adolphe Candé as Lefebvre, a part he also played in the original play of 1893.

Sarah Bernhardt conferencière by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Sarah Bernhardt conferencière

Vintage French postcard. Photo collage. The cards suggests all the famous actors and actress of the 1900s are listening to Sarah Bernhardt performing. The reality might have been different. Inserted in the collage are e.g. Gabrielle Réjane (in Mme Sans-Gêne), Albert Lambert fils, Mounet-Sully, Georges Wague, Madeleine Roch, Marthe Regnier, and Eugénie Segond Weber. F.C. & Cie, 1.

French vedette Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) has been referred to as 'the most famous actress in the history of the world'. She developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress, earning her the nickname 'The Divine Sarah'. Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s and was soon high in demand in both Americas too. And she was one of the first film stars. What a woman!

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Réjane by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane

Vintage French postcard. A.N., Paris, No. 42. Photo by Reutlinger, Paris. Ca. 1910s.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.

Réjane by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

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Réjane

Vintage French postcard. A.L. B. 146.

Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920) was a successful French stage actress and early silent film actress. She is most famous for her role of Catherine, in Sardou's play Madame Sans-Gene (1893), which she filmed twice.