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Read More →British Real Photograph postcard, London, no. FS 117 Photo: Paramount. Publicity still of Ray Milland and Dorothy Lamour in The Jungle Princess (Wilhelm Thiele, 1936). 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 Read More →
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. W. 350. Photo: David O’Selznick Production / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Publicity still for Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939). Extraordinarily beautiful British actress Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) won two Academy Awards for playing ‘Southern belles’: Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Read More →
German postcard by Ufa, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. FK 3954. Photo: Georg Michalke / Ufa. Blonde and curvey Diana Dors (1931-1984) was called ‘The English Marilyn Monroe’, to her disgust. In her own words: “I was the first home-grown sex symbol, rather like Britain’s naughty seaside postcards." For more postcards, a bio Read More →
British postcard in the Colourgraph Series, London, no. C 213. Photo: Paramount. Handsome, suave English-American actor Cary Grant (1904-1986) became one of Hollywood’s definitive classic leading men, known for his debonair demeanour. Grant’s best-known films include Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), His Girl Friday (1940), Notorious (1946), Read More →
British postcard in the Filmshots series by Film Weekly. Photo: London Films. Publicity still for Catherine the Great (Paul Czinner, 1934). Handsome and distinguished, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000) was much more than the son of his superstar father. He was a bright, multi-talent, who excelled in sports and sculpting, was Read More →
Btritish postcard in the Film Partners series, no. P 214. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still for The General Died at Dawn (Lewis Milestone, 1936). British actress Madeleine Carroll (1906–1987) was a blonde beauty of ladylike demeanour. The first of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘ice-cool blondes’ was immensely popular in the 1930s and 1940s, Read More →
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