acteur

  • French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 13. Films Paramount. 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 York in Sergeant York (1941) and as Will Kane in…

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  • French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 13. Films Paramount. 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 York in Sergeant York (1941) and as Will Kane in…

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  • French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 13. Films Paramount. 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 York in Sergeant York (1941) and as Will Kane in…

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  • French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 13. Films Paramount. 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 York in Sergeant York (1941) and as Will Kane in…

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  • French postcard. Editions Cinémagazine, No. 13. Films Paramount. 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 York in Sergeant York (1941) and as Will Kane in…

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  • Dutch postcard by Gebr. Spanjersberg, Rotterdam, no. 1019. Photo: Ufa. Publicity still for Monpti (Helmut Käutner, 1957). Romy Schneider and Horst Buchholz in the film Monpti (Helmut Käutner 1957). The story deals with a Hungarian art student in Paris who meets a French girl on a bench in the Luxembourg park in Paris. A cat…

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  • Title / Titre : Humphrey Bogart, actor / L’acteur Humphrey Bogart Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Yousuf Karsh Date(s) : 1946 Reference No. / Numéro de référence : MIKAN 3198634, 3628547 collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&… collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&… Location / Lieu : Unknown / Inconnu Credit / Mention de source : Yousuf Karsh. Library and Archives Canada, PA-212506 / Yousuf Karsh.…

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  • French postcard by Editions Hazan, Paris, 1991, no. 6251. Photo: publicity still for Le cave se rebiffe/Money Money Money (Gilles Grangier, 1961). Stocky, balding Bernard Blier (1916-1989) was one of France’s most versatile and sought-after character actors. His complete filmography includes 138 titles, both comedies and dramas, in France and in Italy. French actor and…

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  • Czech postcard by Pressfoto, Praha (Prague). Photo: publicity still for Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963). Collection: Carla Bosch. Italian actress Claudia Cardinale (1938) is one of Europe’s iconic and most versatile film stars. The combination of her beauty, dark, flashing eyes, explosive sexuality and genuine acting talent virtually guaranteed her stardom. Her most notable…

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  • Czech postcard by Pressfoto, Praha (Prague). Photo: publicity still for The Misfits (John Huston, 1961). Collection: Carla Bosch. By 1953, Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) was one of the most marketable Hollywood stars, with leading roles in three films: the noir Niagara, which focused on her sex appeal, and the comedies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt