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  • German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag. Photo: 20th Century-Fox. Publicity still for Forever Amber (Otto Preminger, 1947). American film actress Linda Darnell (1923-1965) progressed from modeling as a child to acting in theatre and film as an adolescent. The ravishing beauty appeared in supporting roles in big-budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s, and rose…

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  • Spanish postcard by Eurochromo, no. R 009, 1966. 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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  • Czech postcard by Pressfoto, Praha (Prague). Photo: publicity still for Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959). 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…

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  • Czech postcard by Pressfoto, Praha (Prague). Photo: publicity still for Vie privée/A Very Private Affair (Louis Malle, 1962). Collection: Carla Bosch. Carla: And now Brigitte Bardotova in ”Soukromy Zivot” or “Vie Privée”, released in 1961. Brigitte Bardot plays a girl who lives in Switzerland with her widowed mother. She is infatuated with Marcello Mastroianni who…

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt