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  • From Flickr: “Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan and His Mate (1934)” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Tarzan and His Mate (Cedric Gibbons, 1934). German-American competition swimmer and actor Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984) is best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century. Weissmuller was…

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  • From Flickr: “Raquel Welch” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 81. American actress Raquel Welch (1940) is one of the icons of the 1960s and 1970s. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966). In Great Britain, she then made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although she had only three lines in the film, a…

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  • From Flickr: “Raquel Welch” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 81. American actress Raquel Welch (1940) is one of the icons of the 1960s and 1970s. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966). In Great Britain, she then made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although she had only three lines in the film, a…

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  • From Flickr: “Raquel Welch” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 81. American actress Raquel Welch (1940) is one of the icons of the 1960s and 1970s. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966). In Great Britain, she then made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although she had only three lines in the film, a…

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  • From Flickr: “Raquel Welch” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 81. American actress Raquel Welch (1940) is one of the icons of the 1960s and 1970s. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966). In Great Britain, she then made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although she had only three lines in the film, a…

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  • From Flickr: “Raquel Welch” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 81. American actress Raquel Welch (1940) is one of the icons of the 1960s and 1970s. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966). In Great Britain, she then made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although she had only three lines in the film, a…

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  • From Flickr: “Gary Cooper, Sara Montiel, Denise Darcel and Burt Lancaster in Vera Cruz (1954)” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 39. Photo: MGM. Publicity still for Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954). American screen legend Gary Cooper (1901-1961) is well remembered for his stoic, understated acting style in more than one hundred Westerns, comedies and dramas. He received five Oscar nominations and won twice for his roles as Alvin…

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  • From Flickr: “Charles Bronson” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului ACIN. American actor Charles Bronson (1921-2003) was the archetypal screen tough guy with weatherbeaten features. He was a man of few words but much action in hits like Machine-Gun Kelly (1958), The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). But our favourite is the iconic Spaghetti Western C’era una…

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  • From Flickr: “Henry Fonda in Warlock (1959)” by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

    Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin. Photo: publicity still for Warlock (Edward Dmytryk, 1959). Blue-eyed American actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982) exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He is most remembered for his roles as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Tom…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt