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  • German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 9640/1, 1935-1936. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still for Desire (Frank Borzage, 1936). Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) is regarded as the first German actress to become successful in Hollywood. Throughout her long career, she constantly re-invented herself, starting as a cabaret singer, chorus girl and film actress in 1920s Berlin, she became…

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  • German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 9640/1, 1935-1936. Photo: Paramount. Publicity still for Desire (Frank Borzage, 1936). Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) is regarded as the first German actress to become successful in Hollywood. Throughout her long career, she constantly re-invented herself, starting as a cabaret singer, chorus girl and film actress in 1920s Berlin, she became…

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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 by Editions P.I., no. FK 55. Photo: Angelo Frontoni / Ufa. 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 films include 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963),…

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  • French postcard by Editions P.I., no. FK 55. Photo: Angelo Frontoni / Ufa. 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 films include 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963),…

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  • French postcard by Editions P.I., no. FK 55. Photo: Angelo Frontoni / Ufa. 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 films include 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963),…

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  • French postcard by Editions P.I., no. FK 55. Photo: Angelo Frontoni / Ufa. 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 films include 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963),…

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  • French postcard by Editions P.I., no. FK 55. Photo: Angelo Frontoni / Ufa. 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 films include 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963),…

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  • Belgian postcard in de ‘De 50 mooiste vrouwen van de eeuw’ (The 50 most beautiful women of the century) series by P magazine, no. 36. Photo: Sygma / VPM. 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).…

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  • French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, no. 879. Photo: Teddy Piaz, Paris. Some Hollywood stars were much more popular in Europe than at home. A fabulous example is sweet Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967), one of Hollywood’s original platinum blonde bombshells. Although most of her American films did not do much at the European box offices, Jayne…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt