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  • French postcard, no. 222. Photo: Paramount. American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996) is best remembered for appearing in the Road to… comedies, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. During World War II, Lamour was among the most popular pin-up girls among American servicemen. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/N3NHUr

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  • French postcard, no. 553. Photo: Paramount. American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996) is best remembered for appearing in the Road to… comedies, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. During World War II, Lamour was among the most popular pin-up girls among American servicemen. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2bNR6m4

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  • German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1886/1, 1927-1928. Photo: Clarence Sinclair Bull / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Love (Clarence Brown, 1927). American actor, screenwriter and director John Gilbert (1899-1936) rose to fame during the silent film era and became a popular leading man known as ‘The Great Lover’. Swedish Greta Garbo (1905-1990) was one of…

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  • French postcard, no. 553. Photo: Paramount. American actress and singer Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996) is best remembered for appearing in the Road to… comedies, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. During World War II, Lamour was among the most popular pin-up girls among American servicemen. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2a5e9H5

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  • Swedish postcard. Förlag Nordisk Konst, Stockholm, No. 1161. Anna Q. Nilsson (1888-1974) was a Swedish-American actress, who peaked in the silent era. She became one of the first major stars in the US film industry and contributed in total about 200 silent movies. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/P4pU8p

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  • Swedish postcard. Förlag Nordisk Konst, Stockholm, No. 1312. Anna Q. Nilsson (1888-1974) was a Swedish-American actress, who peaked in the silent era. She became one of the first major stars in the US film industry and contributed in total about 200 silent movies. via Flickr https://flic.kr/p/P4pUrk

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  • British postcard in the Philco series by The Philco Publising Co., London, no. 3159 B. American actress Billie Burke (1884–1970) is now primarily known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939), but she had an impressive career both on stage and in the cinema, in…

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  • British postcard by Film Weekly. Photo: Warner Bros. Publicity still for 42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon, 1933). with George Brent, Bebe Daniels and Warren Baxter. Bebe Daniels (1901-1971) was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent film era as a child actress and later a the…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt